in the campaign “"Exiled Forever": Life in Special Settlement and Return to an Occupied Homeland (1949-1965)”
The colonizer kept the highest posts of the restored republic for Russian leaders. Historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write that around the first secretary of the Bolshevik party's oblast committee (the "obkom of the CPSU") Yakovlev "there formed a grouping of leading officials which had a negative attitude '...toward the act of restoring the autonomy of the Chechen-Ingush people...'," and Yakovlev himself "openly declared that he considered the decision on the rehabilitation of the repressed peoples a great mistake"[1]. An official of the government of the RSFSR, Fedin, reported on 29 August 1957 that three members of the Organizing Committee from among the Chechens and Ingush - Dukuzov, Malsagov and Tepsaev - "for more than eight months have not been appointed to any posts and in essence are responsible for nothing concrete," although "the republic feels a great shortage of cadres from among the Chechens and Ingush"[2]. The writer A. E. Kosterin, a witness of the events, wrote: "Everything was and is being done so as to provoke excesses on the part of the exiles both against the party-soviet organizations and against those who settled their villages... These excesses have been, are and, regrettably, will be, unless the position and tactics of the obkom change"[1]. The same historians write: "Very quickly an unspoken system of distributing the highest posts takes shape in socialist Chechen-Ingushetia" - the posts of first secretary of the party's oblast committee, minister of internal affairs, prosecutor, head of the KGB (predecessor of today's FSB), head of "Grozneft" and others "are reserved for Russian leaders"[1].