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| Participants of the rally in Ingushetia urged to keep the memory of the victims of deportation |
| 2023-02-24 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The deportation of the Ingush and Chechens is still alive in the memory of the elderly, who were able to survive the repression and return to their homeland, and it is important to continue to keep this memory, the participants of the mourning meeting in Nazran pointed out. The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that a prayer in memory of those killed during the years of Stalin's deportation was read today in Nazran by the elders and the head of the republic. In mosques today, believers read prayers, commemorating those who died during the years of deportation, and distribute alms to the poor and large families. Operation "Lentil", during which almost 500,000 people from Chechnya and Ingushetia were evicted to Kazakhstan and Central Asia, took place from February 23 to March 9, 1944. According to historians, mass arrests, deportations and executions on ethnic grounds under Stalin were widely practiced, which is confirmed by a lot of documentary evidence, follows from the reference material "10 myths about Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War," posted on the "Caucasian Knot". Those who wished to honor the memory of those who died during the years of deportation gathered today at the mourning event dedicated to the 79th anniversary of the deportation of the Vainakhs in 1944, which took place on the alley of the Heroes of the Memorial Complex in Nazran. "Today, as if recalling those events as vividly as possible, even the weather was a match for that of February 23, 1944: wet snow fell without ceasing, a chilly wind climbed under the warmest down jackets," the chairman trade union association "Ingushneft" Anzhela Matieva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The woman came to the funeral event with her nephews. “Children know what happened 79 years ago in Ingushetia, how they put people in freight cars and sent them to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The elders tell them about this, they watch newsreel footage. But this is at home. the horror of the first days of exile in sheds and barns, in whose eyes their younger brothers and sisters were dying. "I saw how the expressions of the children's faces change, how attentively they listen to what these old people say," the old people cried and were not embarrassed by their tears flowing down deep wrinkles. I expected that the children would freeze and want to leave. But they stayed at the rally until the end and then, hushed, went inside the tower to get acquainted with the exhibits, stopping for a long time at the paintings, The reasons for the repressions against Chechens and Ingush were named mass desertion, draft evasion in wartime and the preparation of an armed uprising in the Soviet rear. The territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was practically not under occupation, and it was not easy to accuse its peoples of direct betrayal. In addition, the deportation took place when the Wehrmacht had already been thrown back hundreds of kilometers from the Caucasus, and, therefore, was not a military necessity, but an openly punitive act, according to the reference material "Deportation of Chechens and Ingush", published in the "Reference" section on "Caucasian Knot". According to the participant of the funeral rally, this time she herself was imbued with the feeling of what happened 79 years ago: fear of the unknown, hopelessness and despair from powerlessness, from the fact that you can’t change anything in this situation. "How could all this survive and survive? But they survived, while burying their children, parents. I remember the story of a friend who, half a century later, went to Kyrgyzstan, where he spent his childhood. When they came to the cemetery, he saw a large number of small child's graves." "In the first year of the deportation, many children died, they got sick, but more often they died of hunger," an old resident of these places answered his silent question. "Today it is difficult for me to imagine that a child can die not from an incurable disease, but from hunger. mother, burying her child, the long-awaited baby?" said Angela Matieva. Elder Khamzat Buzurtanov every year attends mourning events dedicated to the tragic date of the deportation of the Ingush. According to him, even decades later, the pain of loss, from the fact that for the republic, for the entire Ingush people it was an irreparable tragedy, memories of deportation do not fade in memory, but become even clearer. "Probably, this is also happening because, despite all the laws on rehabilitation, the issue of the Prigorodny district remains unresolved, and people who were repeatedly expelled from their homes as a result of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict could not get into their native homes," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. From October 30 to November 6, 1992, an armed conflict broke out on the territory of the Prigorodny district and part of Vladikavkaz as a result of the aggravation of interethnic relations between Ossetians and Ingush. The conflict quickly escalated into riots, accompanied by pogroms, destruction, arson, armed resistance to the authorities, murders, hostage-taking and other violent acts. During the conflict, according to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, more than 8,000 people were injured, 618 of them died, 939 were injured. The Ingush demand the return to the Prigorodny district of refugees who left it because of the conflict. The Ingush side is convinced that North Ossetia is delaying the process of the return of migrants, the "Caucasian Knot" report says. The elder remembered that after returning from exile, the Ingush were not allowed into their native village. "For 13 years of deportation, everything remained in place, even the furniture was the same as before the eviction. But the owners were different. They slept on other people's beds, ate from other people's dishes, while not allowing the real owners to even look inside," he said. Buzurtanov. The confrontation was long, he noted. "Those who came from exile were offered a plot of land in another place, a loan so that the returnees could build houses, and not live in dugouts. "They are against your return, they will make trouble for you in every possible way, they will not sell you kerosene, salt and matches in the shop. You will die of hunger in these dugouts!" said the chairman of the district executive committee, a Russian, a former front-line soldier, persuaded the arriving Ingush. And then an old man came out to him. "We will die of hunger, you say?" mouth and began to chew. "We will eat this land, but we will not die of hunger, but we will still live here, on our own land," the old man said angrily. The man, with tears in his eyes, hugged the old man and said: live with God, no one else will touch you." Today, in all the mosques of Ingushetia, prayers were read and a funeral ceremony was held, and then alms were distributed. |
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