European countries will hold rallies in memory of the deportation of Chechens and Ingush.
The Government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Exile, together with representatives of the Vainakh diaspora in Europe, will hold events on 25 February on the forced deportation of Chechens and Ingush.
On 26 February 2004, the European Parliament recognized the eviction of the Chechen people as an act of genocide.
Recall that on February 23, 1944 the USSR authorities began the wholesale deportation of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia, CHIASSR was abolished.
Half a million people were forcibly immersed in cattle trains and taken away to a foreign country, those whom the authorities considered non-transportable from the highlands
They shot him on the spot.
The most mass murder was the burning alive of 705 residents, including infirm old people, women and two newborn children, of the Chechen village of Haybach, Galanchozh district. The number of victims during the eviction exceeded one third of the total population.
After 13 years, the Ingush and Chechens were allowed to return to their homeland , having restored the Chechen-Ingush Republic, but already in new administrative borders, without returning their ancestral lands from Dagestan and North Ossetia, transferred in the course of deportation by the Soviet leadership.
