Chechen and Ingush Deportations

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A new Russian history text book has spurred controversy for its depiction of victims of Stalinist deportations. Image via Dron.

Russia amends schoolbooks labelling victims of Stalinist deportations ‘Nazi collaborators’

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

•3 min read

Russia’s Ministry of Education has made changes to a history textbook that referred to North Caucasian nations that were deported from their homes during World War II as ‘Nazi collaborators’. The textbook spurred controversy in the North Caucasus, where several nations were deported en masse to Siberia and Central Asia during World War II for allegedly collaborating with the invading Nazi Germany. These included the Karachays, the Balkars, the Ingush, and the Chechens in the North Caucasus,

Akhmad Ozdo, a member of the Ingush Independence Committee, declaring Ingushetia’s independence from Russia. Screengrab via Youtube.

Chechen and Ingush Deportations

Podcast | Fighting Russia’s colonial legacy in the North Caucasus

by OC Media

•2 min read

Since its conquest by Russia in the 19th century, the North Caucasus has been the scene of genocides, forced deportations, wars for independence, and insurgency. The dozens of nations indigenous to the region continue to be repressed socially and culturally by the Russian Federation. However, Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has once again raised the imperial nature of the Russian state and has shone a light on how this imperialism extends to the North Caucasus, as seve

Chechen and Ingush Deportations

Opinion | Russia’s death train rolls through Chechnya and Ingushetia

by Magomed Torijev

•5 min read

On the anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people, a Russian ‘victory train’ is visiting the two republics — a grotesque parody of the trains that took so many to exile and death. Today is the 78th anniversary of the deportation of the Vainakhs — the Chechen and Ingush people — to Siberia and Central Asia. Seventy-eight years since the entire population of Chechnya and Ingushetia were taken from their homes at gunpoint, in the dead of winter, and packed into cattle cars pu

Participants of a demonstration on 23 February in the Novolaksky District. Photo: r_otuzbiev/Instagram

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The deported Chechens of Daghestan still unable to return to their homes

by Zhalavdi Geriyev

•4 min read

Seventy-seven years after the deportation of the entire Chechen and Ingush nations to Central Asia, Chechen returnees from a small corner of Daghestan still dream of returning to their homes. Every year on 23 February, Chechens and Ingush people mark the tragic anniversary of the Soviet deportations of 1944 on the orders of Stalin — a genocidal event that cost the lives of up to one-third of their total population. In recent years, the largest events to commemorate the day have been held not

Akhmat Kadyrov

Chechnya marks ‘Day of Remembrance and Sorrow’

by OC Media

•2 min read

This year was the seventh year that 10 May was celebrated in Chechnya as the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow. According to the authorities, one of the most terrible tragedies in modern Chechen history took place on this day — the death of Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov. Kadyrov, who was the father of current Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov, died on 9 May 2004, and was buried a day later. On 10 May, large-scale commemorative events are held in Chechnya, the epicentre of which is always the an

Chechen and Ingush Deportations

Ingush Prosecutor's Office opposes Stalin ban

by OC Media

•2 min read

The Prosecutor’s Office of Ingushetia has recommended that parliament withdraw a law prohibiting the glorification of Joseph Stalin. Ingush Deputy Prosecutor Girikhan Khazbiev claims that the draft law contains a ‘corrupt component’. In his letter to parliamentarians, Khazbiev writes that he believes the bill contains ‘the use of unsettled, ambiguous terms and opinions’. In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office says that the ban violates citizens’ constitutional right to freedom of speech and t

Chechen and Ingush Deportations

After 73 years, the memory of Stalin’s deportation of Chechens and Ingush still haunts the survivors

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•7 min read

The twenty-third of February 2017 marks 73 years since the mass deportation of Chechens and Ingush from their homelands to Central Asia. Stalin’s Soviet Union ordered the deportation in the winter of 1944, following which, the Chechen–Ingush Oblast was fully abolished. Every year, Chechens ask why it had to happen. The question has remained unanswered. ‘Operation Lentil’ was the name given to the secret plan to deport the Vainakh peoples (Chechens and Ingush) en masse. To implement it, u