Rehabilitation of the Repressed Peoples: Restoration of Historical Justice (on the Example of the Chechen and Ikalmyk Peoples)

Abstract

The deportation, carried out in 1944 by order of Stalin, was an unprecedented in its cruelty and cynicism act of total eviction of undesirable peoples from their places of historical residence to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. The author of this article has been dealing with this problem for many years, trying to find at least some justification for such a monstrous crime. The peoples who enthusiastically embraced the October Revolution, who fought with Denikin’s army for Soviet power with weapons in their hands, were clearly accused of complicity with fascism. In the same article, we are talking about the restoration of the violated honor and dignity of the deported peoples. The proposed article is dedicated to the rehabilitation of the deported peoples, which began after Stalin’s death and ended after the collapse of the USSR. As you know, after the victory of the party grouping led by NS Khrushchev, the process of gradual easing of the regime of stay in exile for the deported peoples began in the country. From March 1953 to February 1956 a number of legislative acts of the State were adopted. An important event on the way to the rehabilitation of Chechens is the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU, whose historical decisions opened the way to the restoration of the statehood of the repressed peoples.