A monument to Joseph Stalin has been erected in the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. The life-size figure is located near the building of a bakery.
As the director of the bakery, Vadim Tskhovrebov, noted, Stalin's contribution to the development of the state and society "is valued higher in many countries than in ours."
In 2024, residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic and Ingushetia asked the authorities not to glorify the figures responsible for Stalin's deportations. They are concerned about the increasing number of Stalin busts and monuments in his honor. There are currently more than 110 of them in the Russian Federation. There are such memorials in 40 regions, and most of them are in North Ossetia, Dagestan, and Yakutia. Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree assigning the Volgograd International Airport the historical name "Stalingrad."
In 1944, Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of Chechens and Ingush from the North Caucasus to Central Asia and Siberia. This act was recognized as genocide by many countries and the European Parliament. Half a million people were forced to leave their homes. The number of victims during the deportation exceeded a third of the total number of peoples. The Soviet government confiscated the houses, land and all property of the resettlers.
In addition to the Chechens and Ingush, Karachays, Balkars, Crimean Tatars, Koreans, Kalmyks, Germans, Ingrian Finns, Meskhetian Turks - more than a dozen ethnic groups in total - were subjected to total forced resettlement to the USSR.
On November 14, 1989, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted the declaration “On the recognition of repressive acts against peoples subjected to forced displacement as illegal and criminal, and on ensuring their rights,” and on April 24, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR adopted the law “On the rehabilitation of repressed peoples.”
