#chechen genocide

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[tomarza-blog]

During the Great Patriotic War when the people of the USSR were heroically defending the honor and independence of the Fatherland in the struggle against the German-Fascist invaders, many Chechens and Crimean Tatars, at the instigation of German agents joined volunteer units organized by the Germans and together with German troops engaged in armed struggle against units of the Red Army...meanwhile the main mass of the population of the Chechen Ingush and Crimean ASSRs took no counteraction against these betrayers of the Fatherland.

the official explanation for the ethnic cleansing of Crimean Tatars and Chechens from their homelands (on the Crimean Peninsula and in the Northern Caucasus, respectively), as articulated in the Soviet paper Izvestiia (xx)

The deportation of Crimean Tatars from southern Ukraine and Chechens (alongside other, smaller ethnic groups) from the North Caucasus resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.