Residents of Ingushetia and Chechnya who were deported or born in exile turned to the parliaments of their republics and other regions, whose natives suffered most from Stalin’s repressions in 1944 and subsequent years: Karachay-Cherkessia, Chechnya, Crimea and Kalmykia. The authors of the appeal called for a ban on naming streets and erecting monuments in honor of those responsible for the deportations of the peoples of the USSR. 

The applicants are concerned about the increasing number of busts and monuments in honor of USSR Secretary General Joseph Stalin. There are currently 110 of them, 48 of which were installed in the last ten years. There are such memorials in 40 regions, and most of them are in North Ossetia, Dagestan and Yakutia.

Residents of the above-mentioned regions asked to consider the issue of banning the naming of settlements and streets after persons who passed decrees on the forced deportation of the peoples of the USSR. 

At the end of 2023, public figures and officials in the North Caucasus criticized the new school history textbook for high school. The reason was the fragment “Accomplices of the Occupiers,” which stated that, based on the facts of cooperation with the German occupiers, the Karachais, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars and Crimean Tatars were subjected to collective punishment - forced relocation to the eastern regions of the country.