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NKVD report of 5 September 1944 on the Chechens and Ingush

Report of the NKVD Department of Special Settlements setting out the case against the Chechens and Ingush.

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Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) the NKVD's case against them, and a historian's reply Primary record 1 2

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5 Sep 1944 NKVD report of 5 September 1944 on the Chechens and Ingush
5 Sep 1944 NKVD authored NKVD report of 5 September 1944 on the Chechens and Ingush

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Report of the NKVD Department of Special Settlements, 5 September 1944 (excerpt, translated by James von Geldern), Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, University of Illinois, 5 Sep 1944. Primary record
From July 1941 to April 1942 more than 1500 men drafted into the Red Army and labor battalion deserted, and more than 200 people evade military service.
In 1932 an armed rebellion was organized involving over 3000 persons which included all villages of the Nozhai-Yurtovsk District, and several other villages.
Of one ethnic Cavalry Division, 850 people deserted.
From the Report of the NKVD Department of Special Settlements. September 5, 1944
Operation "Lentil": the history of one of the most brutal deportations in the USSR, Qalam, 20 Feb 2026. Scholarship & press
During these difficult war years, as in many other regions of the country, there were armed gangs, acts of sabotage, and occasional collaboration with German forces. These incidents, however, were not more widespread there than in other areas.
The accusations of collaboration against the Chechens and Ingush were without an objective basis, since those who fought in the Red Army demonstrated courage and valor in defending the Motherland.

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