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| Residents of Nalsha shared their memories of Stalin's repressions |
| 2022-10-31 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate [KavkazUzel] About a dozen people came today in Nalchik to a rally on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions. The participants of the action spoke about their relatives who were repressed in Stalin's time and about their life in exile after the deportation of the Balkars. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that October 30 has been celebrated in Russia since 1991 as the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repressions. In 2021, in particular, residents and guests of Sochi laid flowers on this day at the monument to victims of repression. The Soviet era of the 1930s can be compared with the present, when people are imprisoned for their political views, Sochi residents pointed out at the time. Today in Nalchik, about 10 people came to honor the memory of the victims of Stalinist repressions, in the Atazhukinsky garden they laid flowers at the monument to the repressed, and then read a memorial prayer (dua), the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who attended the event, reported. The chairman of the Association of Victims of Political Repressions in Kabardino-Balkaria , Marx Shakhmurzov , said that due to the situation in the country and the world, he "almost single-handedly decided" to hold a limited commemorative event - without a rally and without reading out the names. Marx Shakhmurzov said that his grandfather was repressed "for being prosperous." "Collective farms were created. Property was confiscated from the wealthy. My grandfather's house was confiscated. He and his family were deported, and the house was given under the control of a collective farm," the organizer of the action told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The operation to evict the Balkars took place on March 8, 1944 and lasted only two hours. Disabled war veterans, families of front-line soldiers, leaders of party bodies were resettled from Kabardino-Balkaria to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. A total of 37,713 Balkars were sent to the places of settlement, of which 52% were children, 30 percent were women, and 18 percent were men. During the 18 days of the road, 562 people died. Only in 1957, the Balkars were allowed to return to their homeland, according to the "Caucasian Knot" certificate on the deportation of the Balkars . Boris Khuranov, a Nalchan resident who came to the event , said that his close relatives were repressed. In particular, in 1928, Baty Lukmanovich Khuranov, a Kabardian educator, author of the first Russian-Kabardian dictionary, compiler of the grammar of the Kabardian language, was shot. Baty Khuranov translated the Kabardian script from the Arabic script into the Latin alphabet, Boris Khuranov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to him, Baty Khuranov was born in 1890 into a wealthy family, worked as a teacher, and then was a participant in the First World War, where he received the rank of non-commissioned officer and, as part of the Kabardian cavalry regiment of the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division, participated in campaigns against the Austro-German troops. In 1918, on his initiative, pedagogical courses were opened in Nalchik. After the civil war, Baty Khuranov worked in the public education system. In early January 1928, a relative of Boris Khuranov was arrested and accused of counter-revolutionary activities, and on August 12, 1928 he was shot. Batu Khuranov was rehabilitated only in 1962, a street in Nalchik was named after him. According to the Yandex.Maps service, Khuranova Street is located in the center of Nalchik, not far from the Government House of Kabardino-Balkaria. Another participant in the action, Ismail Khadzhiev , said that he was repressed on a national basis at the age of 13. "Soldiers came in the morning and said, get out. We were put in a truck and brought to the railway station. In Central Asia, I had to suspend my studies and go to work on a collective farm. And in 1947, at the age of 17, I went to study again," shared memoirs of a resident. The head of the Council of Elders of the Balkar people, Ismail Sabanchiev , said that his family was repressed when he was two years old. "In the city of Kyzyl-Kiya [in Kyrgyzstan], where we ended up as special settlers, people were dying of hunger. I remember how a woman died, and her son came and, stepping over the corpse of his mother, began to look for bread cards, because the loss of bread cards meant the death of all other members of the family," Sabanchiev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Recall that the deportations of Balkars, Chechens, Ingush and other Caucasian peoples in Soviet times were justified by myths about mass betrayal and desertion of their representatives. Under Stalin, mass arrests and executions were carried out on ethnic grounds, entire peoples were declared "hostile," says the "Caucasian Knot" report "10 myths about Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War." |
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| #1 "If Stalin only knew..." |
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