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Так это было: национальные репрессии в СССР

Author: редактор-составитель Алиева С. У.; Том 2 (1919-1952 годы); Москва: Инсан
Year of publication: 1993
Published in: редактор-составитель Алиева С. У.; Том 2 (1919-1952 годы); Москва: Инсан
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: several peoples
Publication rights: not allowed (a 1993 publication under copyright)

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Where we got it

Edition: https://search.worldcat.org/title/Tak-eto-bylo-:-nacionalnye-repressii-v-SSSR-1919-1952-gody/oclc/826657491

Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 8 places.

Campaigns

• "Only Pardoned": Alien Rule and the Suppression of Chechen and Ingush National Life (1965-1989)

  Eyewitness Aza Bazorkina recalls that a few days after the dispersal the newspaper Grozny Worker printed, over the signatures of intimidated Ingush, an article "To Serve One's People Honestly", which "says that the Ingush people have not been rehabilitated (as if there had been no 20th Party Congress!) but pardoned"

Procedures

• Operation "Chechevitsa": the Total Deportation of the Chechen People and the Special Settlement Regime (1943-1949) — technique Terror

  …understand the language," and the toll of reprisals began within the first hours: "On the Chechen plain hundreds of people (men, women, children and the old) were shot within a few hours"; in the mountains, where people were driven to the roads on foot, "more often than on the plain, they shot down stragglers, the enfeebled, those who misunderstood an order, or simply - 'attempting to escape'"

• Operation "Chechevitsa": the Total Deportation of the Chechen People and the Special Settlement Regime (1943-1949) — technique Medical and Humanitarian Blockade

  The colonizer cut the Chechens off from medical care from the first day of the deportation: the Chechen historian Dalkhan Khozhaev writes that the troops, driving people out of their homes, "threw the sick off their hospital beds"

• Operation "Chechevitsa": the Total Deportation of the Chechen People and the Special Settlement Regime (1943-1949) — technique Burning of Books and Archives

  All these books and manuscripts were dumped in Grozny straight onto the snow by the public toilet in the square adjoining the Palace of Pioneers"

• Operation "Chechevitsa": the Total Deportation of the Chechen People and the Special Settlement Regime (1943-1949) — technique Pillage

  The items the guards deemed most valuable - carpets, burkas, Caucasian mounted belts, weapons ornamented with gold and silver (daggers, shashkas, flintlock rifles made by Chechen masters of the last century), jewels - were carried in canvas-covered vans"

  …himself at the expense of the property of the special settlers" - he was short four hand-operated and four treadle sewing machines, 26 rugs, 30 carpets and 6 bicycles; Khashaev, prosecutor of Dagestan, received a house, an orchard, a vegetable garden and an "ownerless" cow; people's judge Suleimanov formalized his haul with a receipt: "Goods received, money not paid, to which I hereby subscribe"

• "Exiled Forever": Life in Special Settlement and Return to an Occupied Homeland (1949-1965) — technique Restriction of Settlement Geography

  The exiled Ingush woman Aza Bazorkina, who at sixteen received a passport stamped "special settler," testifies how the commandant would not let her father's friend go to bury his dead wife: "The Muslim cemetery lay beyond the city limits, and he did not allow him to accompany his wife beyond that line"

• "Only Pardoned": Alien Rule and the Suppression of Chechen and Ingush National Life (1965-1989) — technique Neutralization of the Opposition

  …night of 19 January the militia and the internal troops (predecessors of today's Rosgvardiya) cleared the square: "The doubting young people, who did not want to disperse without reliable information, were beaten with rubber truncheons and doused with icy water from fire hoses, herded into buses, driven out of the city and let out there, soaking wet, into a twenty-degree frost in an open field"

• "Only Pardoned": Alien Rule and the Suppression of Chechen and Ingush National Life (1965-1989) — technique Seizure of Religious Institutions

  Historian Dalkhan Khozhaev writes that during the exile "medieval crypts and pre-revolutionary mosques, tombs and shrines… were blown up"