Word: chechen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polish officers. The monstrous secret order No. 001223, outlining procedures to be followed for executions and deportations in the Baltic states (an estimated 1,420,000), was signed by him. He shot or shipped away whole Soviet nationalities-the Crimean Tartars (200,000), the Volga Germans (500,000), the Chechen-Ingush (410,000) of the Caucasus. When the Red army rolled back the Germans, Serov crushed resisters behind the lines. Appointed Stalin's top cop in Berlin, he kidnaped German rocket scientists, dragooned slave labor for the East German uranium mines. It was at about that time that...
...dictated by any military considerations. At the end of 1943 a decision was taken and executed to deport all the Karachai from the lands on which they lived. In the same period, the same lot befell the whole population of the Autonomous Kalmyk Republic. In March 1944 all the Chechen and Ingush peoples were deported and the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic was liquidated. In April 1944 all Balkars were deported to faraway places. The Ukrainians avoided meeting this fate only because there were too many of them and there was no place to which to deport them...
...German drive into southern Russia the following year touched off rebellions against Soviet authority in several small autonomous regions. As the Red army rolled back the Wehrmacht, Serov followed behind, liquidating "collaborationists." He deported to Siberia the entire Chechen-Ingush Republic, the Crimean Tartars, more Ukrainians. For this work he got a second Order of Lenin and a combat commander's Order of Suvorov. By war's end, his work had carried him all the way to Berlin, where he became Stalin's private eye in the Soviet Military Administration. He rounded up German atomic and rocket...
Serov did not belong either to the presidium of party or government. An old GPU agent, whose most notable exploits were liquidating the Baltic and Chechen peoples during World War II, Serov is a tall, cadaverous man who walks unevenly. The Germans knew him as "the one with the limp." They made his acquaintance in the Ukraine, where he is said to have worked with Khrushchev...