A trip down statist memory lane: The day entire nationalities were deported to Kazakhstan

Ingush elders recall the horror of deportation

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A trip down statist memory lane: The day entire nationalities were deported to Kazakhstan _73133080_4ps

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Seventy years ago, in February 1944, nearly half a million Chechen and Ingush people were herded into cattle trucks and forced into exile in remote parts of the Soviet Union. It's estimated that more than a third of them died before they were allowed back 13 years later.

"At dawn, five soldiers entered each house and took all the men away - anyone over the age of 14. I was 10 years old. Then they said they would deport all of us," says Isa Khashiyev.

"We had 10 people in our family - mum and dad, grandmother and seven children. I was the eldest, and my youngest sister was three months old.

"The soldier who was assigned to deport us was very kind. He loaded our truck with five sacks of grain and helped us pack our bedding and other belongings. It was thanks to him that we survived," he says. The truck took them to the nearest railway station in Ingushetia where they were put in a cattle wagon with 10 other families.

More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26271733

A trip down statist memory lane: The day entire nationalities were deported to Kazakhstan

A trip down statist memory lane: The day entire nationalities were deported to Kazakhstan

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