deportation of the Chechens and Ingush

When

1944

Kind

Expulsion or deportation

Coordinates

43.41° N, 43.83° E

Description

ethnic cleansing of Chechens and Ingush in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1944 Soviet ethnic cleansing and genocide

The Soviet government forcibly transferred the whole of the Vainakh populations of the North Caucasus to Central Asia on 23 February 1944, during World War II. The expulsion, referred to by Chechens often as Aardakh, was ordered by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria after approval by Soviet leader and dictator Joseph Stalin as part of a Soviet forced settlement program and population transfer that affected several million me…

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• Wikidata: expulsions and deportationsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush ("Operation Lentil"): Forced deportation of Chechens and Ingush people from North Caucasus to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “déportation de Tchétchènes et Ingouches en Kirghizie (20 %) et au Kazakhstan (80 %)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “بدأ عملية ترحيل الشيشان والإنجوش في الاتحاد السوفيتي”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page