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О подготовке к операции по разоружению и борьбе с бандитизмом в Чечне

Author: АУП ЧР фонд Р-1299 опись 1 дело 17; РГВА фонд 25896 опись 9 дело 277
Year of publication: 2022
Published in: публикация Орсаханов А. Р., Садаев С. В. // Архивный вестник. Вып. 8. Грозный: Архивное управление Правительства ЧР, страницы 36-65 (продолжение - выпуск 9, 2023, страницы 155-197)
Archival reference: АУП ЧР фонд Р-1299 опись 1 дело 17; РГВА фонд 25896 опись 9 дело 277
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Nokhchi (Chechens)
Publication rights: free: document (archival documents of 1925 on the disarmament of Chechnya — official documents of state bodies, not protected by copyright; only the texts of the documents are published, not the 2022 publication)

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Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 10 places.

Campaigns

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925)

  The instruction of 4 August 1925, approved by Uborevich, commander of the North Caucasus Military District (SKVO), prescribed, should the ultimatum not be met, opening artillery fire on the settlement for ten minutes, and allowed repeating it several times

Procedures

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Dehumanization

  …Council, and Yevdokimov, plenipotentiary representative of the OGPU (the political police, a predecessor of today's FSB) for the krai, puts people in one row with rifles and "removes" them with a single verb - point 8 of the instruction reads: "If the conditions of the surrender of weapons are fulfilled, no house-to-house search is conducted, and only the bandit and vicious element is removed"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Imposition of Its Own Picture of Reality

  …police, a predecessor of today's FSB) for the krai, Uborevich, commander of the North Caucasus Military District, and Volodin, member of the district's Revolutionary Military Council, open with the words that the mass operation "in its final result must bring general pacification to Chechnya and create the appropriate conditions for the peaceful Soviet-economic construction of the oblast"

  …instruction of 4 August 1925 the representatives of the authorities, having entered a village surrounded by troops, announced to the assembly the purpose of their coming - "the removal of weapons with a view to the Chechen authorities securing a normal working life for the toiling population", and the artillery shelling was given a name within this frame: "warning fire as a measure of influence"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Military Intervention

  …of 4 August 1925 wrote the Chechen TsIK into every step of the execution: its representatives enter the surrounded aul together with the command and convene the assembly, sit on the weapons-reception commissions, are obliged to provide profiles of the districts, and after "all the enumerated measures of influence" receive the authority to dissolve village executive committees and install revkoms

  for every settlement a questionnaire was drawn up with the number of inhabitants and households, the composition of the population by taips (clans) and the quantity of weapons planned for removal

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Forced Disarmament

  Under the disarmament instruction of 4 August 1925 the inhabitants were announced "the exact figure of the firearms and ammunition subject to removal", taken from the OGPU questionnaires, and given no more than two hours to surrender them

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Indiscriminate Attacks

  …aul does not fulfil the demand to surrender weapons in the established time in full, or fulfils it partially, the detachment command, by way of threat, opens artillery fire (or, in the absence of artillery, machine-gun fire) for 10 minutes with high bursts and half-strikes", and added: "depending on the situation the warning fire, as a measure of influence, may be opened several times as well"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Punitive Expeditions

  …8: "All who counteract in one measure or another the successful conduct of the mass operation are brought to account and arrested", "Malicious concealers of weapons are arrested"; of what was taken during a search the same document says: "During searches and arrests only all correspondence is taken, including correspondence in the Arabic language, as well as all weapons found during the search"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Forced Surrender of Fugitives and Rebels

  Of the representatives of the local authorities the instruction on mass searches, issued for the operation by the staff of the OGPU (the political police, a predecessor of today's FSB), says: they are brought into the removal as those "obliged to point out the dwellings of persons subject to removal, as well as those persons (relatives and others) with whom the person subject to removal may be hiding"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Neutralization of the Opposition

  Arrests are provided for by the disarmament instruction of 4 August 1925 as well - it allows "the conduct of arrests of influential persons of the aul, reactionarily disposed", with the proviso to resort to this measure "as an extreme one, with the observance of maximum tact"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Sham Trials

  …(the political police, a predecessor of today's FSB), establishes that until the end of the investigation the arrested are concentrated at the staffs of the OGPU district groups, and of what follows point 19 says: "The procedure for conducting the investigation and the further routing of the arrested is provided for in the regulations on the troikas for the extrajudicial examination of cases"

  the registration of the same, the conduct of the investigation and the extrajudicial examination of their cases and their transportation to the place of destination"