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Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944)

On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Operation Lentil”

23 Feb 1944 — On Red Army Day, NKVD troops began Operation Lentil, deporting the Chechens and Ingush to Kazakhstan and Kirghizia. About 496,000 people were deported within a week. Between about 100,000 and 200,000 died during the journey and in the first years of exile.

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Site of memory
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Stalin’s ethnic deportations (chapter 7 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
Atlas
The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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Map showing Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944), site of memory in The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
SITE OF MEMORY · THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN, 1924–1953

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