Soviet deportations of Chechens and Ingush
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| Soviet deportations of Chechens and Ingush | |
|---|---|
| Part of Genocides by the Soviet Union | |
| Location | Chechnya[1] |
| Date | 1944[1] |
| Target | Chechens and Ingush[1] |
Attack type | Ethnic cleansing[1] |
| Deaths | 33% of pre-war Chechen and Ingush population[1] |
| Victims | 400,000 Chechens and 91,250 Ingush deported to camps across Central Asia and Siberia[1] |
| Perpetrators | Soviet Union[1] |
| Motive | Ethnic cleansing[1] |
The Soviet deportations of Chechens and Ingush were a series of deportations conducted by Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime in the later stage of World War II after the Soviet Red Army retook the part of Chechnya previously occupied by Nazi Germany.[1] The deportations saw 400,000 Chechens and 91,250 Ingush expelled from the area within eight days.[1]
Events
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Fearing that the Chechnya's mountainous terrain favors guerrilla war, the Soviets entrapped the Chechens and Ingush by inviting them to join the Red Army Day celebrations on February 23, 1944.[1] Once they showed up, they were arrested by soldiers armed with machine guns.[1] The Chechen and Ingush deportees were sent to camps across Central Asia and Siberia.[1] They were not allowed to return to Chechnya until 1957.[1]
Impact
[change | change source]The Chechens and Ingush lost as much as 33% of their total pre-war population under the Soviet invasion.[2] This is around the same percentage of population that Cambodia lost during the Cambodian genocide (1975‒79) under the pro-Soviet Khmer Rouge regime.[3] The deportations have however received little attention from left-wing scholars in the West, who have substantial influence in academia and history writing.[4][5]
Academic views
[change | change source]Despite not comparable to the Holocaust,[a] some historians classify the Soviet deportations of Chechens and Ingush as a genocide,[1] just as the many other crimes against humanity committed by the Soviet Union.[6]
Related pages
[change | change source]- Holodomor
- Soviet deportation of Greeks
- Soviet deportation of Koreans
- Soviet persecution of Poles during World War II
- Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Footnotes
[change | change source]- ↑ Introduction to the Holocaust:
- "Murder of the Jews of Poland". Yad Vashem. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
- "POLISH VICTIMS". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
- "Unter der NS-Herrschaft ermordete Juden nach Land. / Jews by country murdered under Nazi rule". Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung / Federal Agency for Civic Education (Germany). April 29, 2018.
- Grabowski, Jan; Klein, Shira (February 9, 2023). "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust". The Journal of Holocaust Research. 37 (2): 133–190. doi:10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
- Tabarovsky, Izabella (July 25, 2024). "Wikipedia's Jewish Problem". Tablet. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
[...] Wikipedia's articles are [...] feeding billions of people [...] dangerously skewed narratives [...] "minimize[d] Polish antisemitism, exaggerate[d] the Poles' role in saving Jews," blamed Jews for the Holocaust [...].
- Intentional efforts to excuse or minimize the the Holocaust or its principal elements, including collaborators and allies of Nazi Germany
- Gross minimization of the number of the victims of the Holocaust in contradiction to reliable sources
- Attempts to blame the Jews for causing their own genocide
- Statements that cast the Holocaust as a positive historical event. Those statements are not Holocaust denial but are closely connected to it as a radical form of antisemitism. They may suggest that the Holocaust did not go far enough in accomplishing its goal of "the Final Solution of the Jewish Question"
- Attempts to blur the responsibility for the establishment of concentration and death camps devised and operated by Nazi Germany by putting blame on other nations or ethnic groups
References
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- Vatchagaev, Mairbek (1970). "Remembering the 1944 Deportation: Chechnya's Holocaust". North Caucasus Weekly. 8 (8). Retrieved March 19, 2025.
- Brauer, Birgit (2002). "Chechens and the survival of their cultural identity in exile". Journal of Genocide Research. 4 (3): 387–400. doi:10.1080/14623520220151970. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
Published online: 03 Aug 2010
- Aurélie, Campana (November 5, 2007). "The Massive Deportation of the Chechen People". Science Po. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
- ↑ Dunlop, John B. (1998). Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63619-3. LCCN 97051840.
- ↑
- Hinton, Alexander Laban (1998). Why Did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor. Cambrdige University Press. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2010
- Hannum, Hurst (2001). "International Law and Cambodian Genocide: The Sounds of Silence". Cambodia (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781315192918. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
- Kiernan, Ben (2012). "The Cambodian Genocide, 1975–1979". Centuries of Genocide (4 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780203867815. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
- Tyner, James A.; Henkin, Samuel; Sirik, Savina; Kimsroy, Sokvisal (January 1, 2014). "Phnom Penh during the Cambodian Genocide: A Case of Selective Urbicide". Sage Journals. 46 (8). doi:10.1068/a130278p. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
- Tyner, James A. (January 18, 2014). "Dead labor, landscapes, and mass graves: Administrative violence during the Cambodian genocide". Geoforum. 52. Ohio, USA: 70–77. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.12.011. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
- Hinton, Alexander Laban (1998). Why Did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor. Cambrdige University Press. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
- ↑
- Lappin, Shalom (2006), ‘How Class Disappeared from Western Politics’, Dissent, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 73-78.
- Nirenberg, David (2013). Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- Tabarovsky, Izabella (2022). "Demonization Blueprints: Soviet Conspiracist Antizionism in Contemporary Left-Wing Discourse". Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (JCA). Academic Studies Press. doi:10.26613/jca/5.1.97. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- Troy, Gil (February 1, 2024). "How Palestine Hijacked the U.S. Civil Rights Movement". Tablet. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- Kirsch, Adam (2024), On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, W.W. Norton and Company, New York and London.
- Lappin, Shalom (2025). "The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left". Fathom Journal. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- ↑
- Pollack, Eunice G. (2013). Racializing Antisemitism: Black Militants, Jews, and Israel 1950-present (PDF). Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Israel. p. 4.
- "Malcolm X founded Harvard University's antisemitism". Jewish News Syndicate (JNS). 22 February 2024.
- "When Malcolm X Met the Nazis". VICE. 15 April 2015.
- Pierre, Dion J. (June 17, 2019). "How Anti-Semitism Became a Staple of 'Woke' Activism on Campus". National Association of Scholars (NAS). Retrieved October 27, 2024.
- ↑
- Rummel, R. J. (1997). Death by Government. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56000-927-6.
- "In the 1939-1941 period alone, Soviet-inflicted suffering on all citizens in Poland exceeded that of Nazi-inflicted suffering on all citizens. (...) The Soviet-imposed myth about "Communist heroes of resistance" enabled them for decades to avoid the painful questions faced long ago by other Western countries." Johanna Granville, H-Net Review of Jan T. Gross. Revolution from Abroad.
- "Worldwide Recognition of the Holodomor as Genocide". Holodomor Museum. November 24, 2007. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
- Sterio, Milena (2012). "Katyn Forest Massacre: Of Genocide, State Lies, and Secrecy". Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law. 44 (3). Retrieved March 11, 2025.
- Pratsinakis, Manolis (2013). The Greek diaspora in the Soviet Union (PDF) (PhD). University of Amsterdam. pp. 45–68.
- Chang, Jon K. (2018a). Burnt by the Sun: The Koreans of the Russian Far East. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824876746. LCCN 2015046032.
