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Monument to Ingush and Chechen people who perished during the deportation by Stalin to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Erected in Nazran in 1997.

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On 73rd anniversary of deportation, Chechnya and Ingushetia divide on Stalin and his crimes

Seventy-three years ago today, Stalin the two Vaynakh nations, the Chechens and the Ingush, thousands of whom lost…

byPaul A. Goble

The cover of the book called "Istoriomor, or The Drilling into the Brain of Memory: Battles for the Truth about the GULAG, Deportations, the War and the Holocaust" by geographer and historian Pavel Polyan. “'Istoriomor' is a necessary “neologism and metaphor” to cover “the triumph of politicized mythology and anti-historicism over what is really history and memory.” It involves making certain themes and sources taboo, falsifying and mythologizing events, and both denial of the obvious and relativism about anything negative.

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Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations

A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…

byPaul A. Goble