{"description": "russia-colonialism techniques used by Operation \"Chechevitsa\": the Total Deportation of the Chechen People and the Special Settlement Regime (1943-1949), ATT&CK campaign C1180 (v1.0)", "name": "Operation \"Chechevitsa\": the Total Deportation of the Chechen People and the Special Settlement Regime (1943-1949) (C1180)", "domain": "russia-colonialism", "versions": {"layer": "4.5", "attack": "", "navigator": "5.2.0"}, "techniques": [{"techniqueID": "T0030", "comment": "The colonizer abolished the very republic of the Chechens and Ingush and carved up their land among its neighbors: on 7 March 1944 the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued the decree \"On the Liquidation of the Checheno-Ingush ASSR and the Administrative Organization of Its Territory\"(Citation: \u0418\u0437 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0441\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0439: \u043a 80-\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044e \u0434\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 2024): lowland Chechnya went into the newly created Grozny Okrug of Stavropol Krai - a month later the colonizer transformed it into Grozny Oblast(Citation: \u0412\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0430\u0445\u0438 \u0438 \u0438\u043c\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c 2011); the mountain part was divided between the Georgian SSR (today's Georgia) and the Dagestan ASSR (today's Dagestan within Russia), and the Ingush lands were handed to North Ossetia(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). The abolition was given legal form by the law of 25 June 1946(Citation: \u0418\u0437 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0441\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0439: \u043a 80-\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044e \u0434\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 2024).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0121", "comment": "The USSR, deporting the Chechens and Ingush from their native land, made no provision for food at the places of exile - and from famine and disease in exile almost a third of the deported died within four and a half years. The colonizer had taken the people's livestock and food back home: by the resolution of the State Defense Committee of the USSR of 31 January 1944 the people's commissariats (ministries) were obliged \"to accept in the North Caucasus from the special settlers livestock and agricultural produce... issuing exchange receipts for what was accepted,\" while from the confiscated livestock 350 horses \"fit for cavalry service\" were handed over to the cavalry units of the Soviet militia(Citation: \u041f\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0413\u041a\u041e \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 \u2116 5074\u0441\u0441 1944). Pchelkin, People's Commissar (Minister) of Internal Affairs of the Kirghiz SSR, reported to People's Commissar (Minister) of Internal Affairs of the USSR Beria on 22 April 1944: the food the exiles had brought with them \"is running out,\" \"the established ration is critically insufficient,\" the collective farms are \"in no position to help for lack of it, as a result of which in some districts there are instances... of the eating of roots and grasses\"(Citation: \u0412\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0430\u0445\u0438 \u0438 \u0438\u043c\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c 2011). Historian P. M. Polian writes: for lack of food, shelter and fodder the exiles in Kirghizia \"had to slaughter up to 90%\" of the livestock issued \"in compensation for that left behind in their former places of residence,\" while the funds allocated to them were handed out by local bosses to others - in the Kazalinsk district \"one ton of bread was issued to the local party activists,\" and in the collective farms of the Bazar-Kurgan district \"food was issued only to able-bodied special settlers, while those unfit for work were deprived of rations\"(Citation: \u0412\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0430\u0445\u0438 \u0438 \u0438\u043c\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c 2011). In exile the Chechens and Ingush died by the tens of thousands: by the end of 1944 the number of exiles (\"special settlers\" in the colonizer's terms) had fallen by about 11.5 thousand in Kirghizia and by more than 46 thousand in Kazakhstan(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). In 1945, among the North Caucasus exiles, 44,652 children died - 2,230 were born; no fewer than 80 thousand people were starving(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005); in the winter of 1948-1949 in the Kazakh SSR (today's Kazakhstan) up to 118 thousand were starving, and 418 people died of hunger(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). By October 1948 about 146.9 thousand North Caucasus exiles had died in exile; historians put the direct losses of the Chechens and Ingush at 145.7 thousand people, and together with the unborn - at 300 thousand; the people recovered its pre-war numbers only by 1959(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0117", "comment": "test", "showSubtechniques": true}, {"techniqueID": "T0127", "comment": "On 29 January 1944 People's Commissar (Minister) of Internal Affairs Beria approved the principal document of Operation \"Chechevitsa\" - the \"Instruction on the Procedure for the Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush\"(Citation: \u0412\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0430\u0445\u0438 \u0438 \u0438\u043c\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c 2011); on 31 January the State Defense Committee of the USSR issued two resolutions on the deportation and the destinations(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). The first laid out the reception of the deported at the places of exile: the Soviet NKVD (predecessor of today's FSB) was instructed to send \"in February-March of this year, for resettlement, up to 400 thousand people to the Kazakh SSR and up to 90 thousand people to the Kirghiz SSR,\" and in every destination district it was prescribed \"to organize troikas consisting of the chairman of the district executive committee, the secretary of the district party committee and the head of the district branch [RO] of the NKVD\"(Citation: \u041f\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0413\u041a\u041e \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 \u2116 5073\u0441\u0441 1944). The second resolution prescribed that people be transported \"at the tariff for the transportation of prisoners\"(Citation: \u041f\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0413\u041a\u041e \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 \u2116 5074\u0441\u0441 1944). On 7 February, at a meeting with Beria, \"concrete tasks were set for organizing the deportation of 459,486 Chechens and Ingush - 97,635 families,\" and the date was fixed: 22-23 February(Citation: \u0418\u0437 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0441\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0439: \u043a 80-\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044e \u0434\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 2024). The colonizer massed in the republic, write historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov, \"up to 19 thousand officers of the NKVD and NKGB and 100 thousand combat-ready soldiers of the internal troops... over 15 thousand railway wagons and hundreds of locomotives, 6 thousand trucks\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005) - under a cover story: \"rumors were spread about large-scale tactical exercises in the mountains of Chechnya and Ingushetia\"(Citation: \u0418\u0437 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0441\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0439: \u043a 80-\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044e \u0434\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 2024). On 23 February, the Soviet military holiday (\"Red Army Day\"), NKVD troops rounded up the men - historian Z. S. Isakieva writes: \"Instead of the clubs, the men were driven (and marched) to assembly points under reinforced armed guard\"(Citation: \u0418\u0437 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0441\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0439: \u043a 80-\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044e \u0434\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 2024). The Chechen historian A. G. Avtorkhanov cites the testimony of a Russian student eyewitness, printed in the \u00e9migr\u00e9 journal Prometheus in 1949, about the evening of 23 February in the auls: \"That evening the Red Army men lit fires on the aul squares and began singing and dancing. The aul residents, suspecting nothing, gathered at this festivity as spectators. When in this way most of the residents had assembled on the square, all the men were arrested. Some Chechens had weapons, and shooting broke out in many places... The men arrested on the squares were locked in barns, and a hunt began for those who had not been on the square. The whole action was carried out in two or three hours\"(Citation: \u0423\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043e-\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u041d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0443\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1952). \"By 11 o'clock of the first day of the deportation more than 94 thousand people had been taken out of various settlements\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005), and by the morning of 24 February - more than 333 thousand. The NKVD hauled the people in 180 trains: following a \"rationalization\" proposal the agency packed the loading tighter - \"densification of the loading of the special contingent\" in its papers - from 24 to 45 people per wagon; historians write: \"In reality up to 80 people were crammed into the freight 'teplushka' wagons\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). En route, according to the official figures of the Soviet NKVD, 1,361 people died(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005); the eyewitness Ametistov, later a judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia, recalled: \"I saw them [the Chechens] brought in in wagons - and half were unloaded already as corpses. The living were thrown out into 40-degree frost\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). \"The last train with deported Chechens and Ingush pulled up for unloading in the Kazakh steppe on 20 March 1944\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). A. G. Avtorkhanov recorded how it looked to the people: \"On 23 February 1944... within literally 24 hours the entire population of the Checheno-Ingush Republic was placed under arrest, and its loading into prisoner trains began, for dispatch to an unknown destination,\" while the decree liquidating the republic \"was published backdated\" - two years and four months later(Citation: \u0423\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043e-\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u041d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0443\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1952).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0045", "comment": "On the land emptied by the deportation of the Chechens the colonizer destroyed the urban markers of their history: it ransacked the republican local history museum and blew up the monument to the Chechen commander Aslanbek Sheripov(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": true}, {"techniqueID": "T0043", "comment": "The colonizer erased Chechen and Ingush names from the map. Historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write: \"Streets, settlements, auls and districts were hastily renamed\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). Historian P. M. Polian writes of the Ingush lands handed to North Ossetia: \"all the Ingush place names were repressed as well; they were replaced with Ossetian or Russian ones\" - by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 29 April 1944 the Psedakh district became Alansky, Nazran district - Kosta-Khetagurovsky, Achaluki district - Nartovsky, and by the decree of 30 August 1944 the colonizer renamed \"all the districts and their centers\" of Grozny Oblast(Citation: \u0412\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0430\u0445\u0438 \u0438 \u0438\u043c\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c 2011). The Chechen lands that had gone to Georgia the colonizer named the Akhalkhevi district(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0028", "comment": "The USSR lured out by deception the Chechens who were hiding in the mountains from the occupation regime, promising freedom - in the NKVD's (predecessor of today's FSB) papers this was called \"legalization.\" Those who believed the promises were arrested or deported together with their compatriots to Kazakhstan and Kirghizia (today's Kyrgyzstan) in the course of the genocidal Operation \"Chechevitsa.\" The report of Dementiev, head of the Grozny Oblast internal affairs directorate (1956), states: in September-October 1943 alone \"30 bands were legalized, comprising 183 men, plus 60 lone bandits\"(Citation: \u0412\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0430\u0445\u0438 \u0438 \u0438\u043c\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c 2011). Historian P. M. Polian writes: the NKVD files \"listed 1,300 so-called legalized bandits, that is, men who had come forward, by mutual agreement, with a confession and been released from repression for it. All or nearly all of them were arrested shortly before the deportation or in its course\"(Citation: \u0412\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0430\u0445\u0438 \u0438 \u0438\u043c\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c 2011). In the days of the deportation the troops announced clemency for those who had gone into the mountains - and deported those who came out. A Russian student eyewitness from Grozny, whose testimony was printed in the \u00e9migr\u00e9 journal Prometheus in 1949 and is cited by the Chechen historian A. G. Avtorkhanov, writes: \"At the same time an amnesty [a promise not to punish] was announced for those who had gone into the mountains, if they came forward voluntarily. Some of them did in fact come forward, but were deported all the same\u2026\"(Citation: \u0423\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043e-\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u041d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0443\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1952). In the summer of 1944 the colonizer repeated the deception: historian P. M. Polian writes that in June \"tried and tested\" religious authorities, deported in February, were brought from Kazakhstan to Grozny, and they induced hundreds of Chechens in hiding \"toward legalization and, hence, deportation\"(Citation: \u0412\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0430\u0445\u0438 \u0438 \u0438\u043c\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c 2011).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0007", "comment": "The USSR built its accusations of Chechen \"banditry\" on falsified statistics: an inspection by the central apparatus of the Soviet NKVD (predecessor of today's FSB) in the summer of 1943 showed that of 213 \"bandits\" reported killed, only 22 people had ever been on file; at the end of August 1943 the files listed 359 members of \"bandit groups\" for the entire Checheno-Ingushetia(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). On 9 November 1943 Deputy People's Commissar (Minister) of Internal Affairs Kobulov submitted to People's Commissar (Minister) of Internal Affairs Beria a report \"On the Situation in the Districts of the Checheno-Ingush ASSR\" \"with deliberately false figures alleging a mass presence of active bandits and deserters. 'Kobulov! A very good memorandum,' Beria noted on the report, and set in motion the preparation of Operation 'Chechevitsa'\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). Beria lied in his final report as well - he informed the leadership of the USSR that the deportation had passed \"without serious instances of resistance or incidents\"; historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write: \"In his report to the country's leadership the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs lied outright: the deportation of the Chechens was accompanied by numerous incidents and mass killings of peaceful residents\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). The Chechen historian A. G. Avtorkhanov, writing about this in emigration in 1952, took the official version apart point by point. The motive announced by the decree of 25 June 1946 he quotes verbatim - \"Many Chechens and Ingush, incited by German agents, voluntarily joined formations organized by the Germans and, together with the German armed forces, took up arms against the Red Army... Therefore the Checheno-Ingush Republic is to be liquidated and its population deported\" - and calls it calculated \"for the ignorance of the Soviet people and the unawareness of the West\"(Citation: \u0423\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043e-\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u041d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0443\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1952). Against this version he sets two facts: \"during the Second World War not once did a German soldier set foot on the territory of the Checheno-Ingush Republic, save for the brief occupation of the border settlement of Malgobek, populated by Russians,\" and \"the Chechens and Ingush were physically unable to join German formations, since there was no compulsory conscription in Checheno-Ingushetia\"(Citation: \u0423\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043e-\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u041d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0443\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1952).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0032", "comment": "The Soviet NKVD (predecessor of today's FSB) obliged the exiled Chechens and Ingush (\"special settlers\" in the colonizer's terms) over 12 years of age to report monthly to the special commandant's office - the agency's surveillance post at the place of exile; from age 16 the commandant's office opened personal files; the colonizer forbade them to join the Bolshevik party, its youth league (the \"Komsomol\") and the trade unions, and did not take them into the army(Citation: \u0418\u0437 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0441\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0439: \u043a 80-\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044e \u0434\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 2024). From January 1945 the commandant could, without trial, arrest \"offenders\" for up to 5 days or fine them up to 100 rubles(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 26 November 1948 the deportation was declared eternal: the Chechens and Ingush were \"exiled in perpetuity,\" with up to 20 years of hard labor for escape and up to 5 years of prison for aiding escapees(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0104", "comment": "During the deportation the punitive forces of the Soviet NKVD (predecessor of today's FSB) killed on the spot those Chechens who could not be brought to the trains - the gravely ill, the old, women with children: in the agency's papers they were listed as \"untransportable.\" On 27 February 1944 in the aul of Khaibakh, Galanchozh district, the punitive forces, according to historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov, killed \"over 700 people\": Colonel Gvishiani, as the historians write, \"ordered the 'untransportable' residents of Khaibakh and the surrounding hamlets locked... in the stable of the local collective farm named after L. P. Beria, after which the stable itself was piled round with hay and set on fire\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). An eyewitness - Dziyaudin Malsagov, Deputy People's Commissar (Minister) of Justice of the republic - testified: \"When the stable was engulfed in flames, the huge, heavily reinforced gates collapsed under the press of people, and through the fire a crowd of maddened people surged out. Gvishiani commanded: 'Fire!' Automatic and machine-gun bursts rang out from dozens of barrels... No one broke through the fire and the gun cordon. No one was saved\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005); Gvishiani received from People's Commissar (Minister) of Internal Affairs Beria, the historians write, \"a personal commendation, a recommendation for a decoration and a promotion in rank\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). The punitive forces killed the \"untransportable\" throughout the mountain districts: \"47 gravely ill people were put to death and buried in a single pit on the grounds of the Urus-Martan district hospital... several dozen old people, women and children were burned in Tsori, Targim and Guli. Many of those who fled that day from the villages into the mountains or forest were shot on the spot without warning\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005); \"in the Itum-Kale district... houses were packed with the sick and pelted with grenades and bottles of incendiary mixture\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). Historian Z. S. Isakieva writes: at the end of March 1944 NKVD troops \"shot\" the residents of mountainous Malkhista, whom they had failed to reach in February because of snowfall(Citation: \u0418\u0437 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0441\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0439: \u043a 80-\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044e \u0434\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 2024). The Chekists recorded the shootings of the sick in their own correspondence: on 28 May 1944 the head of the Galanchozh operational sector Gransky reported to Deputy People's Commissar (Minister) of State Security Kobulov about the \"unauthorized shootings of the elderly Chechen women, the sick and the crippled who remained after the resettlement\" - in the Nachkhoevsky village soviet alone the \"sick and crippled\" shot numbered \"up to 60 people\"(Citation: \u041b\u0438\u043a\u0432\u0438\u0434\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0432\u0432\u0438\u0434\u0443 \u043d\u0435\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0431\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 2009).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0122", "comment": "The colonizer cut the Chechens off from medical care from the first day of the deportation: the Chechen historian Dalkhan Khozhaev writes that the troops, driving people out of their homes, \"threw the sick off their hospital beds\"(Citation: \u0422\u0430\u043a \u044d\u0442\u043e \u0431\u044b\u043b\u043e: \u043d\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0440\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1993). Typhus broke out in the trains - the certificate of the Soviet NKVD (predecessor of today's FSB) of 7 April 1944 on those brought to Kirghizia states: \"412 people died and 278 were hospitalized\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0441\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0438\u043d\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0413\u0443\u043b\u0430\u0433\u0430 2004). With no quarantine and no medicine at the destinations the epidemic spread: by 1 April 1944 about 4,800 people had fallen ill in Kazakhstan, over 2,000 in Kirghizia(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). The colonizer forbade local residents, on pain of arrest, to help the dying Chechens. The Chechen historian A. G. Avtorkhanov writes: \"The local population was categorically forbidden to render help to the dying by giving food, water or medicine. Even a simple display of human sympathy for the perishing women and children was punished with arrests\"(Citation: \u0423\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043e-\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u041d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0443\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1952).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0164", "comment": "Deporting the Chechen people in February 1944, the colonizer looted its emptied homes. The Chechen historian Dalkhan Khozhaev writes: \"In the days of the deportation, parallel to the human stream, columns of military trucks moved toward Grozny in an unbroken flow, loaded with the valuables looted from the emptied homes of the Chechens and Ingush. The items the guards deemed most valuable - carpets, burkas, Caucasian mounted belts, weapons ornamented with gold and silver (daggers, shashkas, flintlock rifles made by Chechen masters of the last century), jewels - were carried in canvas-covered vans\"(Citation: \u0422\u0430\u043a \u044d\u0442\u043e \u0431\u044b\u043b\u043e: \u043d\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0440\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1993). Drozdov, head of a brigade of the People's Commissariat (Ministry) of State Control of the RSFSR, who inspected the districts handed to Dagestan in August 1944 on the instructions of the government of the RSFSR, reported \"unrestrained theft and squandering of the property of the special settlers,\" begun \"soon after the deportation\": Yusupov, acting chairman of a district soviet, \"fully outfitted himself at the expense of the property of the special settlers\" - he was short four hand-operated and four treadle sewing machines, 26 rugs, 30 carpets and 6 bicycles; Khashaev, prosecutor of Dagestan, received a house, an orchard, a vegetable garden and an \"ownerless\" cow; people's judge Suleimanov formalized his haul with a receipt: \"Goods received, money not paid, to which I hereby subscribe\"(Citation: \u0422\u0430\u043a \u044d\u0442\u043e \u0431\u044b\u043b\u043e: \u043d\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0440\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1993). Historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov sum up: \"Implicated in the unrestrained theft of other people's goods was the entire party-economic and militia top brass of Grozny Oblast, Dagestan, Stavropol, North Ossetia and Georgia\"; those caught were dismissed and tried, but \"in the end the arrests had to be abandoned, since no one would have been left at liberty to govern\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0162", "comment": "test", "showSubtechniques": true}, {"techniqueID": "T0142", "comment": "The colonizer locked the exiled Chechens and Ingush into their places of settlement: the commandant's offices forbade absences without their permission, and the mutual surety of the \"ten-yard groups\" was in force - ten neighboring households answered for one another(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). People fled anyway: from the spring of 1944 to the end of 1950 - over 20.6 thousand escapes, and the chekists caught nearly all the escapees(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). In 1948 the colonizer forbade the exiles to live within 100 kilometers of the USSR border and forcibly resettled over 6 thousand people deeper into Kazakhstan(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0022", "comment": "Historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write about the days of the deportation of the Chechens: \"over the two or three days that the deportation lasted, killing one or two people here and there, the punitive forces destroyed in total no less than a thousand people. And it was announced loudly and distinctly, in Russian: for attempted escape - execution, for failure to obey an order - execution, for expressing protest - execution\"(Citation: \u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438 \u0432 XIX-XX \u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0445 2005). The Chechen historian Dalkhan Khozhaev writes that the threats \"were announced in Russian, though many did not understand the language,\" and the toll of reprisals began within the first hours: \"On the Chechen plain hundreds of people (men, women, children and the old) were shot within a few hours\"; in the mountains, where people were driven to the roads on foot, \"more often than on the plain, they shot down stragglers, the enfeebled, those who misunderstood an order, or simply - 'attempting to escape'\"(Citation: \u0422\u0430\u043a \u044d\u0442\u043e \u0431\u044b\u043b\u043e: \u043d\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0440\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1993). Historian Z. S. Isakieva writes about the columns from the mountain villages: \"Those who could not walk were led out of the column and shot, without even permission to bury them\"(Citation: \u0418\u0437 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0441\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0435\u0439: \u043a 80-\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044e \u0434\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 2024).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0105", "comment": "During the deportation - Operation \"Chechevitsa\" - the troops of the Soviet NKVD (predecessors of today's Rosgvardia) burned the mountain auls of the Chechens as soon as they had driven the residents under convoy to the trains bound for Kazakhstan and Kirghizia (today's Kyrgyzstan) and had driven off their livestock. The Chechen historian A. G. Avtorkhanov cites the testimony of a Russian student of the Grozny Petroleum Institute who was sent to one of the auls on the day of the deportation: \"In the mountain auls this action was carried out differently. All the livestock was evacuated from there, and then the auls were burned, to deprive the 'bandits' of a base for existence. For days on end one could watch auls burning in the mountains\"(Citation: \u0423\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0447\u0435\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043e-\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443\u0448\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u041d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0443\u0431\u0438\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0432 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420 1952).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}], "gradient": {"colors": ["#ffffff", "#66b1ff"], "minValue": 0, "maxValue": 1}, "legendItems": [{"label": "used by Operation \"Chechevitsa\": the Total Deportation of the Chechen People and the Special Settlement Regime (1943-1949)", "color": "#66b1ff"}]}