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Presidium decree of 7 March 1944 liquidating the Chechen-Ingush republic
Decree, marked not for publication, that abolished the Chechen-Ingush ASSR two weeks after the deportation began.
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- 7 Mar 1944
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- How are Presidium decree of 7 March 1944 liquidating the Chechen-Ingush republic and … connected?
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- Supreme Soviet of the USSR 7 Mar 1944 Scholarship & press 1
features
- Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) abolished their republic two weeks after the operation began, giving as grounds wartime betrayal, as Qalam reports the text Scholarship & press 1
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- 7 Mar 1944 Presidium decree of 7 March 1944 liquidating the Chechen-Ingush republic
- 7 Mar 1944 Supreme Soviet of the USSR signed into law Presidium decree of 7 March 1944 liquidating the Chechen-Ingush republic
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Operation "Lentil": the history of one of the most brutal deportations in the USSR, Qalam, 20 Feb 2026.
Scholarship & press
Almost two weeks after the start of Operation Lentil, on 7 March 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree titled ‘On the Liquidation of the Chechen–Ingush ASSR and the Administrative Organization of Its Territory’ under the classification ‘Not for Publication’
During the Great Patriotic War, particularly during the German-Fascist campaigns in the Caucasus, many Chechens and Ingush allegedly betrayed the Motherland, sided with the fascist occupiers, joined saboteur and reconnaissance units sent behind Red Army lines
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