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| Residents of Kalmykia honor the memory of the victims of deportation |
| 2023-12-29 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Prayer services in memory of the victims of deportation were held today throughout Kalmykia; in Elista, residents of the republic, including survivors of deportation, gathered for a rally. There are just over two thousand people left in the region who were born before the deportation, the head of Kalmykia said. The "Caucasian Kno " wrote that since 2004 in Kalmykia, December 28 is the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Deportation of the Kalmyk People. On December 28, 1943, in accordance with the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the liquidation of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the NKVD troops carried out Operation Ulus to evict Kalmyks to the regions of Siberia and the Far East. The Kalmyks were accused of treason, joining military detachments organized by the Germans, and organizing an anti-Soviet rebel movement. The deportation of Kalmyks was also considered as a means of resolving the national-political conflict (as defined by Joseph Stalin) that arose with the Kalmyks. The total number of deported Kalmyks, including soldiers and officers withdrawn from combat units, was about 120 thousand people, according to the Caucasian Knot reference material “ Deportation of Kalmyks.” This morning, in the Central Khurul of Kalmykia "Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni" a prayer service "Yoryal" was held in memory of the victims of deportation. Many people gathered in the main temple of the republic, including the head of Kalmykia Batu Khasikov and the chairman of the government of the republic Gilana Boskhomdzhieva. Memorial prayer services were held throughout the republic, the RIA Kalmykia agency reported today. Hundreds of people gathered today on the territory of the Exodus and Return memorial complex. The rally began with a small theatrical performance, which was presented by actors from theaters in Kalmykia, and the State Choir of Kalmykia named after Tsebekov performed Arkady Mandzhiev’s song “Nyudlya,” another agency publication said. There are just over 2,000 people left in the republic who survived the deportation, the head of the republic said at the rally. “Today there are fewer and fewer witnesses to the tragedy. The number of those born before December 28, 1943 is just over two thousand people. Our task now is to surround them with attention and care, preserve historical memory, peace and harmony in society, and pass them on from generation to generation the objective truth about the past and that there is no justification for repression. This is our civic and human duty," Khasikov said at a rally at the Exodus and Return memorial complex. Today's event took place in windy weather. The organizers of the action offered the crowd hot Kalmyk tea and national pastries, and volunteers handed out yellow ribbons - a symbol of memory of the deportation, MK Kalmykia reported today. On his Telegram page, Khasikov published a poem dedicated to the deportation and a story from the rally with his speech. An evening in memory of the victims of the deportation of the Kalmyk people was held today at the Gulag History Museum in Moscow. Museum director Roman Romanov said that such actions have been taking place for four years in a row, as follows from the broadcast from the action on YouTube. The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on the night of December 27, a memorial plaque was broken at the Abganerovo station in the Volgograd region, dedicated to the deportation of Kalmyks. Police reported that a suspect in the vandalism had been identified. The memorial plaque was installed on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Kalmyks; its destruction deeply offended the residents of Kalmykia and sparked debate about the motives of the vandal. Residents of Kalmykia interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" connected the incident with the atmosphere of hatred in society and the political course towards the rehabilitation of Stalinism. A resident of the Svetloyarsky district of the Volgograd region, who, according to investigators, broke a memorial plaque about the deportation of Kalmyks, has been under the supervision of a psychiatrist for more than 10 years and after the incident was placed in a medical institution, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. Researcher at the International Center for History and Sociology of the Second World War at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, author of the biography “Stalin. The Life of a Leader,” Oleg Khlevnyuk noted earlier that “many do not know or do not want to know that under Stalin there were mass arrests, deportations and executions based on nationality, that entire nations were declared “hostile.” About the most famous myths and reliable information related to the role of Joseph Stalin in the events of the Great Patriotic War - in the information “10 myths about the role of Stalin in the Great Patriotic War” on the “Caucasian Knot”. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 From wiki: After the October Revolution in 1917, many Don Kalmyks joined the White Russian army and fought under the command of Generals Denikin and Wrangel during the Russian Civil War. Before the Red Army broke through to the Crimean Peninsula towards the end of 1920, a large group of Kalmyks fled from Russia with the remnants of the defeated White Army to the Black Sea ports of Turkey. The majority of the refugees chose to resettle in Belgrade, Serbia. Other, much smaller, groups chose Sofia (Bulgaria), Prague (Czechoslovakia) and Paris and Lyon (France). The Kalmyk refugees in Belgrade built a Buddhist temple there in 1929. |
| Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-12-29 08:11 |