in the campaign “"Exiled Forever": Life in Special Settlement and Return to an Occupied Homeland (1949-1965)”
Historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write that officials of the Organizing Committee, which was in charge of the Chechens' return to the republic, "frequently extorted bribes for passes giving the right to resettle immediately from Kazakhstan and Central Asia to the Caucasus"[1]. The price was named by the chief agronomist of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan Kh. U. Arsanukayev in a statement to the head of the government of the USSR Bulganin on 27 August 1957: "the distribution of passes was organized with the calculation that the placemen of the members of the Organizing Committee, and they themselves, filled their suitcases handsomely with money - one pass was sold by them for 2 thousand rubles on average," - and he relayed the words of the returnees: "During our deportation even Beria did not inflict such great material damage on our people as the Organizing Committee of the ChIASSR [the Chechen-Ingush republic] has now inflicted on us"[2]. An official of the government of the RSFSR, Belov, replied on 4 October 1957 that the bribes taken for passes had already been examined by the leadership of the Bolshevik party (the "Central Committee of the CPSU"), that on the Organizing Committee members Tongiev and Dukuzov the party's oblast committee "imposed a strict party reprimand," and proposed "to confine ourselves to the measures taken"[2]. No one returned the houses of the deported: "Wild as it may seem, most often the Chechens had to buy back their houses and land from the new owners"[1] - the collective and state farms of the republic bought up the houses of those who left with state credit: by October 1958 they had on their books 10,413 vacant "residential houses... from the departed population of Ossetian, Avar and other nationalities"[2].