Chechens still do not get compensation for 1944 deportationTimur Aliyev, North Caucasus - Chechens have thus far not received any financial recompense for the expulsion of their nation in 1944, a Moscow-backed Chechen body has stated.
"Chechens are the sole North Caucasus nation whom the state has so far not compensated for the deportation during the Great Patriotic War," said participants in a recent meeting at the State Council of the Chechen Republic.
The participants discussed a mechanism for making a list of persons that constitute victims in line with the Act on Repressed Nations, and for paying monetary compensations.
"Our fellow citizens who had been driven out of their historic homeland can expect, in the second half of the year, to receive some tangible results from the compensation process for their suffering," the participants said.
The other Caucasus nations who were expelled in the period, that is the Karachayevs, Kalmyks, Ingush, and Balkars, received compensations in 1993-4. The amount stood at 8,000 roubles for each person who had been deported or born in the deportation period.
According to official information, almost 54,000 people now fall into this category in the Chechen Republic.
By order of the then Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, about 650,000 Chechens and Ingush were forcibly sent to Central Asia and Siberia in 1944. They were only allowed to return in 1957, four years after Stalin's death.
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