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| Memorial plaque about the deportation of Kalmyks was broken in the Volgograd region |
| 2023-12-28 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A memorial plaque at the Abganerovo station in the Volgograd region, dedicated to the deportation of Kalmyks, was broken tonight, the head of Kalmykia said, calling the incident a provocation. Police are investigating the vandalism and a suspect has been identified. On December 28, 1943, in accordance with the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the liquidation of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the NKVD troops carried out Operation Ulus to evict Kalmyks to the regions of Siberia and the Far East. The Kalmyks were accused of treason, joining military detachments organized by the Germans, and organizing an anti-Soviet rebel movement. The deportation of Kalmyks was also considered as a means of resolving the national-political conflict (as defined by Joseph Stalin) that arose with the Kalmyks. The total number of deported Kalmyks, including soldiers and officers withdrawn from combat units, was about 120 thousand people, according to the Caucasian Knot reference material “ Deportation of Kalmyks .” At the Abganerovo railway station, Svetloyarsk district, Volgograd region, tonight “unknown persons smashed the memorial plaque erected on December 25, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the deportation of our people,” the head of Kalmykia, Batu Khasikov, said in his Telegram channel . “It was from this station that on December 28, 1943, trains with our grandparents left for the regions of Siberia. I consider this incident a senseless provocation, a stupid attempt to sow enmity between the fraternal peoples of the Russian Federation,” he said. The head of the republic noted that “representatives of law enforcement agencies are working at the scene of the incident.” “I demand that the incident be thoroughly investigated and all those responsible be severely punished,” Khasikov added. The Volgograd Line Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Transport has opened a criminal case under the article on vandalism (Article 214 of the Criminal Code of Russia). “The suspect has been identified, <....> the version about the possible involvement of a local resident is being worked out,” the administration of the Svetloyarsk district reported today in its Telegram channel. District authorities promised that the memorial plaque would be restored. Let us remind you that since 2004 in Kalmykia, December 28 is the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Deportation of the Kalmyk People. Researcher at the International Center for History and Sociology of the Second World War at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, author of the biography “Stalin. The Life of a Leader,” Oleg Khlevnyuk noted earlier that “many do not know or do not want to know that under Stalin there were mass arrests, deportations and executions based on nationality, that entire nations were declared “hostile.” About the most famous myths and reliable information related to the role of Joseph Stalin in the events of the Great Patriotic War - in the information “10 myths about the role of Stalin in the Great Patriotic War” on the “Caucasian Knot”. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 The deportation of Kalmyks was also considered as a means of resolving the national-political conflict (as defined by Joseph Stalin) that arose with the Kalmyks. "Ignore that stale odor of doom And the hungry ghosts haunting his tomb," Urge great Russian mystics. "Forget those 'statistics!' Joe only said, 'Go to your room.'" |
| Posted by: Spike Ghibelline2133 2023-12-28 02:23 |