The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that on February 23, 1944, an egregious crime was committed against the Chechen and Ingush peoples. It was on this day “by order of the damned Joseph Stalin Vainakh people underwent a terrifying genocide – a mass exhibition to Siberia and Kazakhstan,” the head of Chechnya wrote in his telegram.
According to Kadyrov, the Soviet authorities made this decision in connection with unreasonable accusations of cooperation with the Nazi troops. The head of Chechnya, in his Telegram channel, called these accusations a “cover for reprisals against entire nations.”
“And all this happened while tens of thousands of Chechens side by side with representatives of other nationalities of the country fought valiantly in the fields of the Great Patriotic War. One of the first in the ranks of the Red Army was resisted in the invasion of the fascists to the territory of the USSR, fired Fights, cleansing the fascist occupation of the city of the Soviet Union. But all this was not given by the authorities in its indefatigable desire to destroy the freedom -loving and proud people, ”Kadyrov wrote.
He recalled that during a mass link, people were dying on the road. The survivors spent many years in a humiliated and disenfranchised state. Kadyrov urged to remember this tragedy and prevent the repetition of such events.