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Since the time of Khrushchev’s “thaw” and especially after “Perestroika” and “democratization” at the end of the 20th century, it has been generally accepted that the deportation of small nations during the Great Patriotic War Patriotic War- this is one of the many crimes of I. Stalin, in a series of many.
Especially, allegedly, Stalin hated the “proud mountaineers” - the Chechens and Ingush. Even, they provide the evidence base, Stalin is a Georgian, and at one time the mountaineers annoyed Georgia greatly, and they even asked for help from the Russian Empire. So the Red Emperor decided to settle old scores, i.e. the reason is purely subjective.
Later, a second version appeared - nationalist, it was put into circulation by Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov (professor at the Institute of Language and Literature). This “scientist,” when the Nazis approached Chechnya, went over to the enemy’s side and organized a detachment to fight the partisans. At the end of the war, he lived in Germany, working at Radio Liberty.” In his version, the scale of the Chechen resistance is increased in every possible way and the fact of cooperation between the Chechens and the Germans is completely denied.
But this is another “black myth” invented by slanderers to distort history.
Actually reasons
- Mass desertion of Chechens and Ingush: in just three years of the Great Patriotic War, 49,362 Chechens and Ingush deserted from the ranks of the Red Army, another 13,389 “valiant highlanders” evaded conscription (Chuev S. Northern Caucasus 1941-1945. War in the Home Front. Observer. 2002, No. 2).
For example: at the beginning of 1942, when creating a national division, it was possible to recruit only 50% of the personnel.
In total, approximately 10 thousand Chechens and Ingush honestly served in the Red Army, 2.3 thousand people died or went missing. And more than 60 thousand of their relatives evaded military duty.
- Banditry. From July 1941 to 1944, on the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, state security agencies liquidated 197 gangs - 657 bandits were killed, 2,762 were captured, 1,113 surrendered voluntarily. For comparison, in the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, almost half as many Chechens and Ingush died or were captured. This is without counting the losses of the “highlanders” in the ranks of Hitler’s “eastern battalions”.
And taking into account the complicity of the local population, without which banditry is not possible in the mountains, due to the primitive communal psychology of the mountaineers, many
“peaceful Chechens and Ingush” can also be included in the category of traitors. Which in wartime, and often in peacetime, is punishable only by death.
- Uprisings of 1941 and 1942.
- Harboring saboteurs. As the front approached the borders of the republic, the Germans began to send scouts and saboteurs into its territory. The German reconnaissance and sabotage groups were received very favorably by the local population.
The memoirs of a German saboteur of Avar origin, Osman Gube (Saidnurov), are very eloquent; they planned to appoint him Gauleiter (governor) in the North Caucasus:
“Among the Chechens and Ingush I easily found the right people, ready to betray, go over to the side of the Germans and serve them.
I was surprised: what are these people unhappy with? Chechens and Ingush under Soviet rule lived prosperously, in abundance, much better than in pre-revolutionary times, which I personally became convinced of after more than four months of being on the territory of Checheno-Ingushetia.
The Chechens and Ingush, I repeat, do not need anything, which caught my eye when I recalled the difficult conditions and constant deprivations in which the mountain emigration found itself in Turkey and Germany. I did not find any other explanation except that these people from the Chechens and Ingush, with treasonous sentiments towards their Motherland, were guided by selfish considerations, the desire under the Germans to preserve at least the remnants of their well-being, to provide a service, in compensation for which the occupiers would leave them at least part available livestock and products, land and housing.”
- Betrayal of local internal affairs bodies, representatives of local authorities, local intelligentsia. For example: the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the CHI ASSR Ingush Albogachiev, the head of the department for combating banditry of the NKVD of the CHI ASSR Idris Aliev, the heads of the regional departments of the NKVD Elmurzaev (Staro-Yurtovsky), Pashaev (Sharoevsky), Mezhiev (Itum-Kalinsky, Isaev (Shatoevsky), heads of regional police departments Khasaev (Itum-Kalinsky), Isaev (Cheberloevsky), commander of a separate fighter battalion of the Suburban regional department of the NKVD Ortskhanov and many others.
Two-thirds of the first secretaries of the district committees abandoned their posts as the front line approached (August-September 1942); apparently the rest were “Russian-speaking.” The first “prize” for betrayal can be awarded to the party organization of the Itum-Kalinsky district, where the first secretary of the district committee Tangiev, the second secretary Sadykov and almost all party workers became bandits.
How should traitors be punished!?
According to the law, in wartime conditions, desertion and evasion military service shall be punished by execution, with a fine as a mitigating measure.
Banditry, organizing an uprising, collaborating with the enemy - death.
Participation in anti-Soviet underground organizations, possession, complicity in committing crimes, harboring criminals, failure to report - all these crimes, especially in conditions of war, were punishable by long prison terms.
Stalin, according to the laws of the USSR, had to allow sentences to be brought forward, according to which over 60 thousand highlanders would be shot. And tens of thousands would receive long sentences in institutions with a very strict regime.
From the point of view of legality and Justice, the Chechens and Ingush were punished very mildly and violated the Criminal Code for the sake of humanity and mercy.
How would millions of representatives of other nations who honestly defended their common homeland look at complete “forgiveness”?
Interesting fact! During Operation Lentil, which expelled Chechens and Ingush in 1944, only 50 people were killed while resisting or trying to escape. The “warlike highlanders” did not offer any real resistance; “the cat knew whose butter it had eaten.” As soon as Moscow demonstrated its strength and firmness, the mountaineers obediently went to the assembly points, they knew their Guilt.
Another feature of the operation is that Dagestanis and Ossetians were brought in to help with the eviction; they were glad to get rid of their restless neighbors.
Modern parallels
We must not forget that this eviction did not “cure” the Chechens and Ingush from their “diseases”. Everything that was present during the Great Patriotic War - banditry, robberies, abuse of civilians (“not mountaineers”), betrayal of local authorities and security agencies, cooperation with the enemies of Russia (special services of the West, Turkey, Arab states) was repeated in the 90s. e years of the 20th century.
Russians must remember that no one has yet responded for this, neither the merchant government in Moscow, which abandoned civilians to their fate, nor the Chechen people. He will have to Answer, sooner or later - both according to the Criminal Code and according to Justice.
Sources: based on materials from the book by I. Pykhalov, A. Dyukov. The Great Slandered War -2. M. 2008.
Why did Stalin deport the Chechens and Ingush in 1944? There are two widespread myths about this today. According to the first of them, launched back in the days of Khrushchev and happily taken up by today's liberals, there were no objective reasons for the eviction at all. The Chechens and Ingush fought bravely at the front and worked hard in the rear, but as a result they became innocent victims of Stalin’s tyranny: “Stalin hoped to bully the small nations in order to finally break their desire for independence and strengthen his empire.”
The second myth, nationalist, was put into circulation by Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, a professor at the Institute of Language and Literature. This scientist, when German troops approached the borders of Chechnya, went over to the enemy’s side, organized a detachment to fight the partisans, and after the end of the war he lived in Germany and worked at a radio station “ Freedom". Avtorkhanov’s version of events boils down to the following. On the one hand, the scale of the Chechen “resistance” to Soviet power is being inflated in every possible way, to suppress which entire divisions were allegedly sent along with aircraft that bombed “liberated areas” controlled by the rebels. On the other hand, the cooperation of the Chechens with the Germans is completely denied:
“... being even right at the borders of the Chechen-Ingush Republic, the Germans did not transfer a single rifle or cartridge to Checheno-Ingushetia. Only individual spies and a large number of leaflets were transferred. But this was done wherever the front passed. But the main thing is that Israilov’s uprising began in the winter of 1940, i.e. even when Stalin was in alliance with Hitler."
This myth is adhered to, first of all, by the current Chechen “independence fighters”, since it pleases their national pride. However, many who approve of deportation are also inclined to believe it, since it seems justified. And completely in vain. Yes, during the war years, the Chechens and Ingush committed crimes, much more serious than the story of the notorious white horse, allegedly given by the Chechen elders to Hitler. However, one should not create a false heroic aura around this. The reality is much more prosaic and uglier.
Mass desertion
The first charge that should be brought against the Chechens and Ingush is mass desertion. This is what was said about this in a memo addressed to People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrentiy Beria “On the situation in the regions of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic”, compiled by Deputy People's Commissar of State Security, Commissar of State Security 2nd Rank Bogdan Kobulov based on the results of his trip to Checheno-Ingushetia in October 1943 and dated November 9, 1943:
“The attitude of the Chechens and Ingush towards Soviet power was clearly expressed in desertion and evasion of conscription into the Red Army.
During the first mobilization in August 1941, out of 8,000 people subject to conscription, 719 people deserted.
In October 1941, out of 4,733 people, 362 evaded conscription.
In January 1942, when recruiting the national division, it was possible to call up only 50 percent of the personnel.
In March 1942, out of 14,576 people, 13,560 deserted and evaded service, went underground, went to the mountains and joined gangs.
In 1943, out of 3,000 volunteers, the number of deserters was 1,870.”
In total, during the three years of the war, 49,362 Chechens and Ingush deserted from the ranks of the Red Army, another 13,389 brave sons of the mountains evaded conscription, which makes a total of 62,751 people.
How many Chechens and Ingush fought at the front? Defenders of “repressed peoples” invent various fables on this score. For example, Doctor of Historical Sciences Hadji-Murat Ibragimbayli states: “More than 30 thousand Chechens and Ingush fought on the fronts. In the first weeks of the war, more than 12 thousand communists and Komsomol members - Chechens and Ingush - joined the army, most of whom died in battle.”
The reality looks much more modest. While in the ranks of the Red Army, 2.3 thousand Chechens and Ingush died or went missing. Is it a lot or a little? The Buryat people, half the size of the people, who were not threatened by the German occupation, lost 13 thousand people at the front, one and a half times less than the Chechens and Ingush Ossetians - 10.7 thousand.
As of March 1949, among the special settlers there were 4,248 Chechens and 946 Ingush who had previously served in the Red Army. Contrary to popular belief, a number of Chechens and Ingush were exempted from being sent to settlements for their military merits. As a result, we get that no more than 10 thousand Chechens and Ingush served in the ranks of the Red Army, while over 60 thousand of their relatives evaded mobilization or deserted.
Let's say a few words about the notorious 114th Chechen-Ingush Cavalry Division, the exploits of which pro-Chechen authors love to talk about. Due to the stubborn reluctance of the indigenous inhabitants of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to go to the front, its formation was never completed, and the personnel who were able to be drafted were sent to reserve and training units in March 1942.
Banditry
The next charge is banditry. From July 1941 to 1944, only in the territory of the Chi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which was later transformed into the Grozny region, state security agencies destroyed 197 gangs. At the same time, the total irretrievable losses of the bandits amounted to 4,532 people: 657 killed, 2,762 captured, 1,113 turned themselves in. Thus, in the ranks of the gangs that fought against the Red Army, almost twice as many Chechens and Ingush died or were captured as at the front. And this is not counting the losses of the Vainakhs who fought on the side of the Wehrmacht in the so-called “eastern battalions”! And since banditry is impossible in these conditions without the complicity of the local population, many “peaceful Chechens” can also, with a clear conscience, be classified as traitors.
By that time, the old “cadres” of abreks and local religious authorities, through the efforts of the OGPU and then the NKVD, had been largely driven out. They were replaced by young gangsters - Komsomol members and communists raised by the Soviet regime, who studied in Soviet universities, who clearly demonstrated the truth of the proverb “No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking into the forest.”
Its typical representative was Khasan Israilov, mentioned by Avtorkhanov, also known under the pseudonym “Terloev,” which he took from the name of his teip. He was born in 1910 in the village of Nachkhoy, Galanchozh district. In 1929 he joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), and in the same year he entered the Komvuz in Rostov-on-Don. In 1933, to continue his studies, Israilov was sent to Moscow to the Communist University of the Toilers of the East named after. I.V. Stalin. In 1935 he was arrested under Art. 58–10 part 2 and 95 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and was sentenced to 5 years in forced labor camps, but was released in 1937. Returning to his homeland, he worked as a lawyer in the Shatoevsky district.
Uprising of 1941
After the start of the Great Patriotic War, Khasan Israilov, together with his brother Hussein, went underground, developing vigorous activity to prepare a general uprising. For this purpose, he held 41 meetings in various villages, created combat groups in the Galanchozh and Itum-Kalinsky regions, as well as in Borzoi, Kharsinoy, Dagi-Borzoi, Achekhne and other settlements. Representatives were also sent to the neighboring Caucasian republics.
Initially, the uprising was scheduled for the fall of 1941 in order to coincide with the approach of German troops. However, as the blitzkrieg schedule began to come apart at the seams, its deadline was postponed to January 10, 1942. But it was too late: due to low discipline and the lack of clear communication between the rebel cells, it was not possible to postpone the uprising. The situation got out of control. A single coordinated action did not take place, resulting in scattered premature actions of individual groups.
So, on October 21, 1941, residents of the Khilokhoy village of the Nachkhoevsky village council of the Galanchozhsky district plundered the collective farm and offered armed resistance to the task force trying to restore order. An operational detachment of 40 people was sent to the area to arrest the instigators. Underestimating the seriousness of the situation, his commander divided his men into two groups, heading to the villages of Khaibakhai and Khilokhoy. This turned out to be a fatal mistake. The first of the groups was surrounded by rebels. Having lost four people killed and six wounded in the shootout, as a result of the cowardice of the group leader, she was disarmed and, with the exception of four operatives, shot. The second, hearing the firefight, began to retreat and, being surrounded in the village of Galanchozh, was also disarmed. As a result, the uprising was suppressed only after the deployment of large forces.
A week later, on October 29, police officers detained Naizulu Dzhangireev in the village of Borzoi, Shatoevsky district, who was evading labor service and inciting the population to do so. His brother, Guchik Dzhangireev, called his fellow villagers for help. After Guchik’s statement: “There is no Soviet power, we can act,” the gathered crowd disarmed the police officers, destroyed the village council and plundered the collective farm’s livestock. Together with rebels from the surrounding villages who joined, the Borzoevites offered armed resistance to the NKVD task force, however, unable to withstand the retaliatory strike, they scattered through the forests and gorges, like the participants in a similar performance that took place a little later in the Bavloevsky village council of the Itum-Kalinsky district.
However, it was not in vain that Israilov studied at the Communist University! Remembering Lenin’s statement “Give us an organization of revolutionaries, and we will turn Russia over,” he actively took up party building. Israilov built his organization on the principle of armed detachments, covering with their activities a certain area or group of settlements. The main link was the village committees or threes and fives, which carried out anti-Soviet and rebel work on the ground.
Already on January 28, 1942, Israilov held an illegal meeting in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), at which the “Special Party of Caucasian Brothers” (OPKB) was established. As befits a self-respecting party, the OPKB had its own charter, a program providing for “the creation in the Caucasus of a free fraternal Federal Republic of the states of the fraternal peoples of the Caucasus under the mandate of the German Empire,” as well as symbols:
“The coat of arms of the OPKB means:
A) the eagle’s head is surrounded by an image of the sun with eleven golden rays;
B) on its front wing there is a bunch of scythe, sickle, hammer and handle;
C) a poisonous snake is drawn in the claws of his right foot in a captured form;
D) a pig is drawn in the claws of his left foot in a captured form;
D) on the back between the wings two armed people in Caucasian uniform are drawn, one of them is shooting at a snake, and the other is cutting a pig with a saber...
The explanation of the COAT OF ARMS is as follows:
I. Eagle in general means the Caucasus.
II. The sun signifies Freedom.
III. Eleven sun rays represent the eleven fraternal peoples of the Caucasus.
IV. Kosa denotes a pastoralist-peasant;
Sickle - farmer-peasant;
Hammer - a worker from the Caucasian brothers;
The pen is science and study for the brothers of the Caucasus.
V. Poisonous snake - denotes a Bolshevik who has suffered defeat.
VI. Pig - denotes a Russian barbarian who has suffered defeat.
VII. Armed people - denotes the brothers of the OPKB, leading the fight against Bolshevik barbarism and Russian despotism."
Later, in order to better suit the tastes of future German masters, Israilov renamed his organization the National Socialist Party of the Caucasian Brothers (NSPKB). Its number, according to the NKVD, soon reached 5,000 people. This is quite similar to the truth, considering that in February 1944, the NKVD task force captured lists of members of the NSPKB in 20 villages of the Itum-Kalinsky, Galanchozhsky, Shatoevsky and Prigorodny districts of the Chi ASSR with a total number of 540 people, despite the fact that only in Chechnya ( excluding Ingushetia) then there were about 250 villages.
Uprisings of 1942
Another large anti-Soviet group on the territory of Checheno-Ingushetia was the so-called “Checheno-Mountain National Socialist Underground Organization” created in November 1941. Its leader, Mairbek Sheripov, like Israilov, was a representative of the new generation. The son of a tsarist officer and the younger brother of the famous commander of the so-called “Chechen Red Army” Aslanbek Sheripov, who was killed in September 1919 in a battle with Denikin’s troops, was born in 1905. Just like Israilov, he joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was also arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda - in 1938, and in 1939 was released due to lack of proof of guilt. However, unlike Israilov, Sheripov had a higher social status, being the chairman of the Forest Industry Council of the Chi ASSR.
Having gone illegal in the fall of 1941, Mairbek Sheripov united around himself gang leaders, deserters, fugitive criminals hiding in the Shatoevsky, Cheberloyevsky and part of the Itum-Kalinsky districts, and also established connections with religious and teip authorities of the villages, trying with their help to persuade population to an armed uprising against Soviet power. Sheripov’s main base, where he hid and recruited like-minded people, was in the Shatoevsky district. There he had extensive family connections.
Sheripov repeatedly changed the name of his organization: “Society for the Rescue of Mountain People”, “Union of Liberated Mountain People”, “Checheno-Ingush Union of Mountain Nationalists” and, finally, as a logical result, “Checheno-Mountain National Socialist Underground Organization”. In the first half of 1942, he wrote a program for the organization, in which he outlined its ideological platform, goals and objectives.
After the front approached the borders of the republic, in August 1942, Sheripov managed to establish contact with the inspirer of a number of past uprisings, the mullah and associate of Imam Gotsinsky, Dzhavotkhan Murtazaliev, who had been in an illegal situation with his entire family since 1925. Taking advantage of his authority, he managed to raise a major uprising in the Itum-Kalinsky and Shatoevsky regions.
The uprising began in the village of Dzumskaya, Itum-Kalinsky district. Having defeated the village council and the board of the collective farm, Sheripov led the bandits who had rallied around him to the regional center of the Shatoevsky district - the village of Khimoi. On August 17, Himoy was taken, the rebels destroyed party and Soviet institutions, and the local population plundered and stole the property stored there. The capture of the regional center was successful thanks to the betrayal of the head of the department for combating banditry of the NKVD CHI ASSR, Ingush Idris Aliyev, who maintained contact with Sheripov. A day before the attack, he prudently recalled an operational group and a military unit from Khimoy, which were specifically intended to guard the regional center in the event of a raid.
After this, about 150 participants in the rebellion, led by Sheripov, set out to capture the regional center of Itum-Kale of the district of the same name, joining rebels and criminals along the way. Itum-Kale was surrounded by one and a half thousand rebels on August 20. However, they were unable to take the village. The small garrison located there repulsed all attacks, and the two companies that approached put the rebels to flight. The defeated Sheripov tried to unite with Israilov, but the state security agencies were finally able to organize a special operation, as a result of which the leader of the Shatoev bandits was killed on November 7, 1942.
The next uprising was organized in October of the same year by the German non-commissioned officer Reckert, who was sent to Chechnya in August at the head of a sabotage group. Having established contact with Rasul Sakhabov’s gang, he, with the assistance of religious authorities, recruited up to 400 people and, supplying them with German weapons dropped from airplanes, managed to raise a number of villages in the Vedensky and Cheberloevsky districts. However, thanks to the operational and military measures taken, this armed uprising was liquidated, Reckert was killed, and the commander of another sabotage group, Dzugaev, who had joined him, was arrested. The actives of the rebel formation created by Reckert and Rasul Sahabov, numbering 32 people, were also arrested, and Sahabov himself was killed in October 1943 by his bloodline Ramazan Magomadov, who was promised forgiveness for bandit activities for this.
Harboring saboteurs
After the front line approached the borders of the republic, the Germans began to send scouts and saboteurs into the territory of Checheno-Ingushetia. These sabotage groups were received extremely favorably by the local population. The abandoned agents were given the following tasks: to create and maximally strengthen bandit-rebel formations and thereby divert parts of the active Red Army to themselves; carry out a series of sabotages; block the most important roads for the Red Army; commit Act of terrorism and so on.
Best of luck Reckert's group achieved what is described above. The largest reconnaissance and sabotage group of 30 paratroopers was deployed on August 25, 1942 to the territory of the Ataginsky district near the village of Cheshki. Chief Lieutenant Lange, who headed it, intended to raise a massive armed uprising in the mountainous regions of Chechnya. To do this, he established contact with Khasan Israilov, as well as with the traitor Elmurzaev, who, being the head of the Staro-Yurt regional department of the NKVD, in August 1942 went into hiding together with the district commissioner of the procurement office Gaitiev and four policemen, taking 8 rifles and several million rubles money.
However, Lange failed in this endeavor. Having failed to complete what was planned and pursued by security service units, the chief lieutenant with the remnants of his group (6 people, all Germans) managed, with the help of Chechen guides led by Khamchiev and Beltoev, to cross the front line back to the Germans. Israilov also did not live up to expectations, whom Lange described as a dreamer, and called the “Caucasian brothers” program he wrote stupid.
Nevertheless, making his way to the front line through the villages of Chechnya and Ingushetia, Lange continued to work on creating gangster cells, which he called “Abwehr groups.” He organized groups: in the village of Surkhakhi, Nazran district, numbering 10 people, led by Raad Dakuev, in the village of Yandyrka, Sunzhensky district, numbering 13 people, in the village of Srednie Achaluki, Achaluk district, numbering 13 people, in the village of Psedakh of the same district - 5 people. In the village of Goyty, a cell of 5 people was created by a member of the Lange group, non-commissioned officer Keller.
Simultaneously with Lange’s detachment, on August 25, 1942, Osman Gube’s group was also thrown into the territory of the Galanchozh region. Its commander Osman Saidnurov (he took the pseudonym Gube while in exile), an Avar by nationality, was born in 1892 in the village of Erpeli, now Buinaksky district of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, into the family of a textile merchant. In 1915 he voluntarily joined the Russian army. During the Civil War, he served with Denikin with the rank of lieutenant and commanded a squadron. In October 1919 he deserted, lived in Tbilisi, and from 1921, after the liberation of Georgia by the Reds, in Turkey, from where he was expelled in 1938 for anti-Soviet activities. After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, Osman Gube underwent training at a German intelligence school and was placed at the disposal of naval intelligence.
The Germans pinned special hopes on Osman Gube, planning to make him their governor in the North Caucasus. To increase his authority in the eyes of the local population, he was even allowed to pose as a German colonel. However, these plans were not destined to come true - at the beginning of January 1943, Osman Gube and his group were arrested by state security agencies. During the interrogation, the failed Caucasian Gauleiter made an eloquent confession:
“Among the Chechens and Ingush, I easily found the right people who were ready to betray, go over to the side of the Germans and serve them.
I was surprised: what are these people unhappy with? Chechens and Ingush under Soviet rule lived prosperously, in abundance, much better than in pre-revolutionary time, which I personally became convinced of after more than 4 months of being on the territory of Checheno-Ingushetia.
Chechens and Ingush, I repeat, do not need anything, which caught my eye when I recalled difficult conditions and the constant hardships experienced by the mountain emigration in Turkey and Germany. I did not find any other explanation other than the fact that these people from the Chechens and Ingush, with treasonous sentiments towards their Motherland, were guided by selfish considerations, the desire under the Germans to preserve at least the remnants of their well-being, to provide a service in compensation for which the occupiers would leave them at least part of what they had livestock and products, land and housing."
Contrary to Avtorkhanov’s assurances, the Germans also widely practiced parachuting weapons for Chechen bandits. Moreover, in order to impress the local population, they once even dropped small changeable silver coins of royal mintage.
The district committee is closed - everyone has joined the gang
A reasonable question arises: where have they been looking all this time? local authorities internal affairs? The NKVD of Checheno-Ingushetia was then headed by state security captain Sultan Albogachiev, an Ingush by nationality, who had previously worked as an investigator in Moscow. In this capacity he was particularly cruel. This was especially evident during the investigation into the case of Academician Nikolai Vavilov. It was he, together with the former executive secretary of Moskovsky Komsomolets Lev Shvartsman, who, according to Vavilov’s son, tortured the academician for 7–8 hours straight.
Albogachiev’s zeal did not go unnoticed - having received a promotion, on the eve of the Great Patriotic War he returned to his native republic. However, it soon became clear that the newly appointed People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Checheno-Ingushetia was by no means eager to fulfill his direct responsibilities in eradicating banditry. This is evidenced by numerous minutes of meetings of the bureau of the Chechen-Ingush regional committee of the CPSU (b):
- July 15, 1941: “People's Commissar Comrade. Albogachiev did not strengthen the People’s Commissariat organizationally, did not unite workers and did not organize an active fight against banditry and desertion.”
- beginning of August 1941: “Albogachiev, heading the NKVD, dissociates himself in every way from participating in the fight against terrorists.”
- November 9, 1941: “The People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (People's Commissar Comrade Albogachiev) did not comply with the resolution of the Bureau of the Chechen-Ingush Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks dated July 25, 1941, the fight against banditry until recently was built on passive methods, resulting in banditry not only was it not liquidated, but on the contrary, it intensified its actions.”
What was the reason for such passivity? During one of the security and military operations, servicemen of the 263rd regiment of the Tbilisi division of the NKVD troops, Lieutenant Anekeyev and Sergeant Major Netsikov, discovered Israilov-Terloev’s duffel bag with his diary and correspondence. These documents also contained a letter from Albogachiev with the following content:
“Dear Terloev! Hello to you! I am very upset that your highlanders started an uprising ahead of schedule (Meaning the uprising of October 1941 - I.P.). I'm afraid that if you don't listen to me, we, the workers of the republic, will be exposed... See, for the sake of Allah, keep your oath. Don't tell us to anyone.
You exposed yourself. You act while in deep underground. Don't let yourself be arrested. Know that you will be shot. Keep in touch with me only through my trusted collaborators.
You write me a hostile letter, threatening me with the possibility, and I will also begin to persecute you. I will burn down your house, arrest some of your relatives, and march against you anywhere and everywhere. By this you and I must prove that we are irreconcilable enemies and are persecuting each other.
You don’t know those Ordzhonikidze GESTAPO agents through whom, I told you, we need to send all the information about our anti-Soviet work.
Write information about the results of the present uprising and send it to me, I can immediately send it to an address in Germany. You tear up my note in front of my messenger. These are dangerous times, I'm afraid.
November 10, 1941"
His subordinates also matched Albogachiev (whose request for a hostile letter Israilov fulfilled in good faith). I have already mentioned the betrayal of the head of the department for combating banditry of the NKVD CHI ASSR Idris Aliyev. At the district level, there was also a whole galaxy of traitors in the internal affairs bodies of the republic. These are the heads of the regional departments of the NKVD: Staro-Yurtovsky - Elmurzaev, Sharoevsky - Pashaev, Itum-Kalinsky - Mezhiev, Shatoevsky - Isaev, the heads of the regional police departments: Itum-Kalinsky - Khasaev, Cheberloevsky - Isaev, the commander of the extermination battalion of the Suburban regional department of the NKVD Ortskhanov and many others.
What can we say about ordinary employees of the “authorities”? The documents are replete with phrases like: “Saidulaev Akhmad, worked as an investigator of the Shatoevsky RO NKVD, in 1942 he joined a gang”, “Inalov Anzor, a native of the village. Gukhoy of the Itum-Kalinsky district, a former policeman of the Itum-Kalinsky district branch of the NKVD, freed his brothers from the prison cell, arrested for desertion, and disappeared, seizing weapons,” etc.
Local party leaders did not lag behind the security officers. As was said on this score in Kobulov’s already quoted note:
“When the front line approached in August-September 1942, 80 members of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks quit their jobs and fled, incl. 16 heads of district committees of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, 8 senior officials of district executive committees and 14 chairmen of collective farms."
For reference: at this time the CHI ASSR included 24 districts and the city of Grozny. Thus, exactly two-thirds of the 1st secretaries of the district committees deserted from their posts. It can be assumed that those who remained were mostly “Russian-speaking,” such as the secretary of the Nozhai-Yurt RK of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Kurolesov.
The party organization of the Itum-Kalinsky district especially “distinguished itself”, where the 1st secretary of the district committee Tangiev, the 2nd secretary Sadykov and other party workers went into hiding. It was time to put up a notice on the doors of the local party committee: “The district committee is closed - everyone has joined the gang.”
In the Galashkinsky district, after receiving summonses to appear at the republican military registration and enlistment office, the 3rd secretary of the district committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Kharsiev, the district committee instructor and deputy of the Supreme Council of the Chi ASSR Sultanov, deputy. chairman of the district executive committee Evloev, secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol Tsichoev and a number of other senior officials. Other employees of the district, such as the head of the organizational and instructional department of the district committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Vishagurov, the chairman of the district executive committee Albakov, the district prosecutor Aushev, while remaining in their places, entered into a criminal connection with the already mentioned head of the reconnaissance and sabotage group Osman Gube and were him recruited to prepare an armed uprising in the rear of the Red Army.
The local intelligentsia behaved equally treacherously. Editorial staff member of the newspaper Lenin's way“Elsbek Timurkaev, together with Avtorkhanov, went to the Germans, People's Commissar of Education Chantaeva and People's Commissar of Social Security Dakaeva were connected with Avtorkhanov and Sheripov, knew about their criminal intentions and provided them with assistance.
Often, traitors did not even try to hide behind lofty words about the struggle for freedom and openly flaunted their selfish interests. Thus, Mairbek Sheripov, going illegal in the fall of 1941, cynically explained to his followers: “My brother, Aslanbek Sheripov, foresaw the overthrow of the Tsar in 1917, so he began to fight on the side of the Bolsheviks, I also know that Soviet power had come to an end, so I want to meet Germany halfway.”
Similar examples can be given endlessly, but it seems that what has been stated is more than enough to convince us of the massive betrayal of the Chechens and Ingush during the Great Patriotic War. These peoples fully deserved their eviction. Nevertheless, despite the facts, the current guardians of the “repressed peoples” continue to repeat how inhumane it was to punish the entire nation for the crimes of its “individual representatives.” One of the favorite arguments of this public is the reference to the illegality of such collective punishment.
Humane lawlessness
Strictly speaking, this is true: no Soviet laws provided for the mass eviction of Chechens and Ingush. However, let's see what would have happened if the authorities had decided to act according to the law in 1944.
As we have already found out, the majority of Chechens and Ingush of military age evaded military service or deserted. What is the punishment for desertion in wartime conditions? Execution or penal company. Did these measures apply to deserters of other nationalities? Yes, they were used. Banditry, organizing uprisings, and collaborating with the enemy during the war were also punished to the fullest extent. Like less serious crimes, such as membership in an anti-Soviet underground organization or possession of weapons. Complicity in committing crimes, harboring criminals, and, finally, failure to report were also punishable by the Criminal Code. And almost all adult Chechens and Ingush were involved in this.
It turns out that the denouncers of Stalin's tyranny, in fact, regret that several tens of thousands of Chechen men were not legally put against the wall! However, most likely, they simply believe that the law is written only for Russians and other “lower class” citizens, and it does not apply to the proud inhabitants of the Caucasus. Judging by the current amnesties for Chechen militants, as well as calls heard with enviable regularity to “solve the problem of Chechnya at the negotiating table” with bandit leaders, this is so.
So, from the point of view of formal legality, the punishment that befell the Chechens and Ingush in 1944 was much milder than what was due to them according to the Criminal Code. Because in this case, almost the entire adult population should have been shot or sent to camps. After which, for humanitarian reasons, children would also have to be taken out of the republic.
And from a moral point of view? Maybe it was worth “forgiving” the traitor nations? But what would millions of families of dead soldiers think, looking at the Chechens and Ingush sitting behind the lines? After all, while Russian families left without breadwinners were starving, the “valiant” mountaineers traded in the markets, without a twinge of conscience, speculating in agricultural products. According to intelligence data, on the eve of deportation, many Chechen and Ingush families had accumulated large sums money, some - 2-3 million rubles.
However, even at that time the Chechens had “intercessors”. For example, Deputy Head of the Department for Combating Banditry of the NKVD of the USSR R.A. Rudenko. Having gone on a business trip to Checheno-Ingushetia on June 20, 1943, upon his return he submitted a report to his immediate superior V.A. Drozdov on August 15, which said, in particular, the following:
“The growth of banditry must be attributed to such reasons as insufficient party mass and explanatory work among the population, especially in high mountainous areas, where many auls and villages are located far from regional centers, lack of agents, lack of work with legalized bandit groups... allowed excesses in the conduct of security and military operations, expressed in mass arrests and murders of persons who were not previously on the operational register and do not have incriminating material. Thus, from January to June 1943, 213 people were killed, of which only 22 people were operationally registered...”
Thus, according to Rudenko, you can only shoot at those bandits who are registered, and with others you can conduct party-mass work. If you think about it, the report leads to the exact opposite conclusion - the real number of Chechen and Ingush bandits was ten times greater than the number on the operational register: as you know, the core of the gangs were professional abreks, who were joined by the local population to participate in specific operations .
In contrast to Rudenko, who complained about the “insufficient implementation of party-mass and explanatory work,” Stalin and Beria, who were born and raised in the Caucasus, absolutely correctly understood the psychology of the mountaineers with its principles of mutual responsibility and collective responsibility of the entire clan for a crime committed by its member. That is why they decided to liquidate the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. A decision whose validity and fairness were fully understood by the deportees themselves. Here are the rumors circulating among the local population at that time:
« Soviet authority will not forgive us. We don’t serve in the army, we don’t work on collective farms, we don’t help the front, we don’t pay taxes, banditry is all around. The Karachais were evicted for this - and we will be evicted.”
Operation Lentil
So, the decision to evict the Chechens and Ingush was made. Preparations began for the operation, codenamed “Lentil”. State Security Commissioner of the 2nd Rank I.A. Serov was appointed responsible for its implementation, and his assistants were State Security Commissioners of the 2nd Rank B.Z. Kobulov, S.N. Kruglov and Colonel General A.N. Apollonov, each of which he headed one of the four operational sectors into which the territory of the republic was divided. L.P. Beria personally controlled the progress of the operation. As a pretext for the deployment of troops, it was announced that exercises would be held in mountainous conditions. The concentration of troops at their initial positions began approximately a month before the start of the active phase of the operation.
First of all, it was necessary to carry out an accurate census of the population. On December 2, 1943, Kobulov and Serov reported from Vladikavkaz that the operational security groups created for this purpose had begun work. It turned out that over the previous two months, about 1,300 bandits hiding in forests and mountains were legalized in the republic, including the “veteran” of the bandit movement, Dzhavotkhan Murtazaliev, the inspirer of a number of past anti-Soviet protests, including the uprising in August 1942. At the same time, during the legalization process, the bandits handed over only a small part of their weapons, and hid the rest until better times.
"17.II–44 years
Comrade Stalin
Preparations for the operation to evict the Chechens and Ingush are coming to an end. After clarification, 459,486 people were registered as being subject to resettlement, including those living in the regions of Dagestan bordering Checheno-Ingushetia and in the city of Vladikavkaz. On the spot, I check the status of preparations for resettlement and take the necessary measures.
Taking into account the scale of the operation and the peculiarity of mountainous areas, it was decided to carry out the eviction (including boarding people in trains) within 8 days, within which in the first 3 days the operation will be completed in all lowland and foothill areas and partially in some settlements in mountainous areas, covering more than 300 thousand people. In the remaining 4 days, evictions will be carried out in all mountainous regions, covering the remaining 150 thousand people.
During the operation in low-lying areas, i.e. in the first 3 days, everything settlements mountainous areas, where the eviction will begin 3 days later, will be blocked by military teams led by security officers who have already been introduced there in advance.
There are many statements among the Chechens and Ingush, especially related to the appearance of troops. Part of the population reacts to the appearance of troops in accordance with the official version, according to which training maneuvers of Red Army units are allegedly being carried out in mountainous conditions. Another part of the population suggests the eviction of Chechens and Ingush. Some believe that they will evict bandits, German collaborators and other anti-Soviet elements.
There were a large number of statements about the need to resist the eviction. We have taken all this into account in the planned operational security measures.
All necessary measures have been taken to ensure that the eviction is carried out in an orderly manner, within the time limits specified above and without serious incidents. In particular, 6–7 thousand Dagestanis and 3 thousand Ossetians from the collective farm and rural activists of the regions of Dagestan and North Ossetia adjacent to Checheno-Ingushetia will be involved in the eviction, as well as rural activists from among the Russians in those areas where there is Russian population. Russians, Dagestanis and Ossetians will also be partially used to protect the livestock, housing and farms of those evicted. In the coming days, preparations for the operation will be fully completed, and the eviction is scheduled to begin on February 22 or 23.
Considering the seriousness of the operation, I ask that you allow me to remain in place until the operation is completed, at least mainly, i.e. until February 26–27.
NKVD USSR Beria".
An indicative point: Dagestanis and Ossetians are brought in to help with the eviction. Previously, detachments of Tushins and Khevsurs were brought in to fight Chechen gangs in neighboring regions of Georgia. It seems that the bandit inhabitants of Checheno-Ingushetia managed to annoy all the surrounding nationalities so much that they were gladly ready to help send their restless neighbors somewhere far away.
Finally everything was ready:
“22.II.1944
Comrade Stalin
To successfully carry out the operation to evict the Chechens and Ingush, following your instructions, in addition to the security and military measures, the following was done:
1. I called the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Mollaev, to whom I informed the government's decision about the Chechens and Ingush and the motives that formed the basis of this decision. Mollaev shed tears after my message, but pulled himself together and promised to complete all the tasks that would be given to him in connection with the eviction. (According to the NKVD, the day before the wife of this “crying Bolshevik” bought a gold bracelet worth 30 thousand rubles - I.P.) Then, in Grozny, 9 leading officials from Chechens and Ingush were identified and convened with him, to whom the progress of the eviction of the Chechens was announced and Ingush and the reasons for their eviction. They were asked to take an active part in informing the population of the government’s decision on eviction, the procedure for eviction, the conditions for arrangement in places of new resettlement, and were also given the following tasks:
In order to avoid excesses, urge the population to strictly comply with the orders of the workers leading the eviction.
The workers present expressed their readiness to put in their efforts to implement the proposed measures and have already practically begun work. We assigned 40 republican party and Soviet workers from Chechens and Ingush to 24 districts with the task of selecting 2-3 people from the local activists for each locality, who will have to give an appropriate explanation on the day of eviction before the start of the operation at gatherings of men specially assembled by our workers government eviction decisions.
In addition, I had a conversation with the most influential senior clergy in Checheno-Ingushetia: Arsanov Baudin, Yandarov Abdul-Hamid and Gaisumov Abbas, who were also informed of the government’s decision and, after appropriate processing, were asked to carry out the necessary work among the population through their associated mullahs and other local “authorities”.
The listed clerics, accompanied by our workers, have already begun working with mullahs and murids, obliging them to call on the population to obey the orders of the authorities. Both party-Soviet workers and clergy employed by us were promised some resettlement benefits (the norm of things allowed for export will be slightly increased). The troops, operatives and transport necessary for the eviction are pulled directly to the operation sites, the command and operational personnel are accordingly instructed and ready to carry out the operation. We begin eviction at dawn on February 23rd. From two o'clock in the morning on February 23, all populated areas will be cordoned off, pre-designated ambush and patrol sites will be occupied by task forces with the task of preventing the population from leaving the territory of populated areas. At dawn, the men will be called by our detectives to meetings, where they will native language the government's decision to evict the Chechens and Ingush will be announced. In high mountain areas, meetings will not be convened due to the large scattering of settlements.
After these gatherings, it will be proposed to allocate 10–15 people to announce to the families of those gathered about the collection of things, and the rest of the gathering will be disarmed and taken to the places of loading into trains. The confiscation of anti-Soviet elements scheduled for arrest has largely been completed. I believe that the operation to evict the Chechens and Ingush will be successful.
Each operational group, consisting of one operative and two NKVD troops, had to evict four families. The task force's technology of action was as follows. Upon arrival at the house of those being evicted, a search was carried out, during which firearms and bladed weapons, currency, and anti-Soviet literature were confiscated. The head of the family was asked to hand over members of the detachments created by the Germans and persons who helped the Nazis. The reason for the eviction was also announced here: “During the period of the Nazi offensive in the North Caucasus, the Chechens and Ingush in the rear of the Red Army showed themselves to be anti-Soviet, created bandit groups, killed Red Army soldiers and honest Soviet citizens, and sheltered German paratroopers.” Then property and people - primarily women with infants- loaded onto vehicles and, under guard, headed to the collection point. You were allowed to take food, small household and agricultural equipment with you at the rate of 100 kg per person, but not more than half a ton per family. Money and household jewelry were not subject to seizure. For each family, two copies of registration cards were compiled, where all household members, including absent ones, and things discovered and seized during the search were noted. A receipt was issued for agricultural equipment, fodder, and cattle to restore the farm at a new place of residence. The remaining movable and immovable property was registered by representatives of the selection committee. All suspicious persons were arrested. In case of resistance or attempts to escape, the perpetrators were shot on the spot without any shouting or warning shots.
“23.II.1944
Comrade Stalin
Today, February 23, at dawn, an operation to evict the Chechens and Ingush began. The eviction is going well. There are no noteworthy incidents. There were 6 cases of attempts at resistance by individuals, which were stopped by arrest or use of weapons. Of those targeted for seizure in connection with the operation, 842 people were arrested. As of 11 a.m., 94,741 people were removed from populated areas, i.e. over 20% of those subject to eviction were loaded onto railway trains, of this number 20,023 people.
Despite the fact that preparations for the operation were carried out in the strictest secrecy, it was not possible to completely avoid information leakage. According to intelligence reports received by the NKVD on the eve of the eviction, the Chechens, accustomed to the sluggish and indecisive actions of the authorities, were very militant. Thus, legalized bandit Saidakhmed Ikhanov promised: “If someone tries to arrest me, I will not surrender alive, I will hold out as long as I can. The Germans are now retreating in such a way as to destroy the Red Army in the spring. We must hold on at all costs.” A resident of the village of Nizhny Lod, Jamoldinov Shatsa, stated: “We need to prepare the people to start an uprising on the very first day of the eviction.”
In today's publications, no, no, and there will flash an admiring story about how freedom-loving Chechens heroically resisted deportation:
“I talked with a good friend of mine, a former border guard officer who took part in the eviction of Chechens in 1943. From his story, among other things, I learned for the first time what losses this action cost “us,” what a courageous struggle the Chechen people waged, defending every house, every stone with arms in hand.”
In fact, these are just fairy tales designed to amuse the wounded pride of the “warlike highlanders.” As soon as the authorities demonstrated their strength and firmness, the proud horsemen obediently went to the assembly points, without even thinking about resistance. Those few who resisted were not treated on ceremony:
“In the Kuchaloi region, legalized bandits Basayev Abu Bakar and Nanagaev Khamid were killed while providing armed resistance. A rifle, a revolver and a machine gun were confiscated from the dead.”
“During the attack on the operational group in the Shali region, one Chechen was killed and one was seriously wounded. In the Urus-Mordanovsky region, four people were killed while trying to escape. In the Shatoevsky district, one Chechen was killed while attempting to attack sentries. Two of our employees were slightly wounded (with daggers).”
“When the train SK-241 departed from the station. Yany-Kurgash Tashkent railway special settler Kadyev tried to escape from the train. During his arrest, Kadyev tried to hit Red Army soldier Karbenko with a stone, as a result of which a weapon was used. Kadyev was wounded by the shot and died in the hospital.”
In general, during the deportation only 50 people were killed while resisting or attempting to escape.
A week later, the operation was largely completed:
"29.II.1944
Comrade Stalin
1. I report on the results of the operation to evict the Chechens and Ingush. Evictions began on February 23 in most areas, with the exception of high mountain settlements.
By February 29, 478,479 people were evicted and loaded onto railway trains, including 91,250 Ingush and 387,229 Chechens.
177 trains have been loaded, of which 159 trains have already been sent to the site of the new settlement.
Today we sent a train with former executives and religious authorities of Checheno-Ingushetia, who we used during the operation.
From some points of the high-mountainous Galanchozh region, 6 thousand Chechens remained unevacuated due to heavy snowfall and impassable roads, the removal and loading of which will be completed in 2 days. The operation was carried out in an orderly manner and without serious resistance or other incidents. Cases of attempts to escape and hide from eviction were isolated and were stopped without exception. A combing of forest areas is being carried out, where NKVD troops and an operational group of security officers are temporarily stationed to garrison. During the preparation and conduct of the operation, 2,016 people of the anti-Soviet element from among the Chechens and Ingush were arrested and seized firearms 20,072 units, including: 4868 rifles, 479 machine guns and machine guns.
The population bordering Checheno-Ingushetia reacted favorably to the eviction of Chechens and Ingush.
The leaders of the Soviet and party bodies of North Ossetia, Dagestan and Georgia have already begun work on the development of the areas transferred to these republics.
2. To ensure the preparation and successful conduct of the operation to evict the Balkars, all necessary measures have been taken. The preparatory work will be completed by March 10, and the eviction of Balkars will be carried out from March 10 to 15.
Today we finish work here and leave for one day to Kabardino-Balkaria and from there to Moscow.
L. Beria ".
Noteworthy is the number of weapons seized, which would be more than enough for an entire division. It is not difficult to guess that all these trunks were not intended to protect herds from wolves.
Battalion stuffed into a stable
Of course, regardless of the real guilt of the Chechens and Ingush, in the eyes of current advocates of democracy, their deportation looks like an unheard-of crime. Alas, the era of “perestroika” with its orgy of unbridled anti-Stalinism is irrevocably gone. Again, the “exploits” of the current fighters for “independent Ichkeria” do not at all add to their popularity. An increasing number of our fellow citizens are beginning to think that the eviction of that time was completely justified.
Trying at all costs to prevent such a shift in public opinion, liberal propaganda resorts to writing all sorts of horror stories about the crimes of Stalin’s guardsmen. Thus, a heartbreaking story about the brutal extermination of the population of the Chechen village of Khaibakh is regularly published on the pages of newspapers:
“In 1944, 705 people were burned alive in a stable in the high-mountain village of Khaibakh.
Old people, women and children of the high-mountain village of Khaibakh could not come down from the mountains and thereby thwarted the deportation plans. The head of the Podvig search center of the International Union of War Veterans and Armed Forces, who headed the emergency commission to investigate the genocide in Khaibakh in 1990, Stepan Kashurko, tells us what happened to them later.”
Before racking our brains over the question of how the executioners from the NKVD managed to push an entire battalion of Chechens into a wooden stable in a small high-mountain village, let us remember the situation in which the “extraordinary commission” headed by Mr. Kashurko operated. 1990, the eve of the collapse of the Union, an unprecedented surge of nationalism... “Popular fronts” are being created everywhere, real, and more often fictitious, grievances are being carefully remembered. A nationally concerned public is enthusiastically digging up nameless corpses, declaring them “victims of Stalin’s repressions.” Is it any wonder at the obvious absurdities and absurdities, especially since the main ones are yet to come:
“We rushed to the ashes. To my horror, my leg fell into the chest of the burnt man. Someone shouted that it was his wife. I had difficulty freeing myself from this trap. An eyewitness to the burning, Dziyaudin Malsagov (former deputy people's commissar of justice), told the crying old people what he experienced at this place 46 years ago, when he was seconded to help the NKGB. People burst through. They talked about burned mothers, wives, fathers, grandfathers...”
What, from the point of view of common sense, should any Chechen do if he knows that his wife was burned in this village? Especially considering the attitude of Caucasian residents towards family ties? Naturally, at the first opportunity, that is, immediately after returning from exile, go to Khaibakh to find her remains and give her a proper burial. And not leave them unburied in the ashes for several decades, so that all sorts of idle journalists will trample on them.
No less interesting, how was it possible to so confidently identify at first glance a burnt corpse that had lain for almost half a century in the open air? And could Kashurko, with his knowledge of criminology, independently and without prompting, distinguish the skeleton of a Chechen woman who was burned to death more than forty years ago from, say, the skeleton of a Russian slave who was burned a week ago?
By the way, the biography of the chairman of the “extraordinary commission” also looks very suspicious.
“On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Victory, Marshal Konev was appointed chairman of the Central Headquarters of the All-Union Campaign along the Roads of War. I was a lieutenant commander in the Navy in reserve, a journalist."
So, according to in my own words Kashurko, in 1965 he was in the reserve, with the rank of lieutenant commander. However, in subsequent years, Stepan Savelyevich did fabulous career. In 2005, according to the Novaya Gazeta certificate, he was already a retired captain of the 1st rank. Next year we meet him already with the rank of admiral. The “great and sincere friend of the Chechens and Ingush” completed his life’s journey with the rank of colonel general.
Thus, we have before us either an impostor or a person of questionable mental health. Nevertheless, the nonsense he expounds is seriously replicated by the current media.
Abduction from the other world
However, let’s continue Kashurko’s story:
“The Chechens asked to bring Gvishiani to them, let him look people in the eyes. I promised to fulfill the request.
- Incredible. Were you going to invite Gvishiani to Khaibakh?
- We decided to steal it. With the help of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, they arrived at a luxurious house. But fate saved the executioner from answering - we were too late: paralyzed, he died. We returned to Khaibakh three days later. The mountaineers only said: “Death for the jackal!” To the beat of a drum, we burned his one and a half meter portrait in the place from where he commanded: “Fire!”
If you think that Mr. Kashurko sincerely confessed to committing a crime - preparing to kidnap a person, and now he can be brought to justice in accordance with the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, then you are deeply mistaken. Any lawyer will prove in no time that his client is in fact incriminating himself. The only way to kidnap a person who has already been dead for 24 years is by digging him out of his grave or flying to the next world. The fact is that Mikhail Maksimovich Gvishiani, who was the head of Beria’s personal security in 1937, to whom the Chechen-loving public attributes the burning of Khaibakh, died back in September 1966. Moreover, he was the most famous person in Georgia - Kosygin’s matchmaker and Primakov’s father-in-law. Gamsakhurdia simply could not not know that he had died long ago. Consequently, we are dealing with outright lies.
By the way, to evict or destroy a small village, a company is enough, which, logically, should be commanded by a captain. However, according to modern storytellers, the “executioner of Khaibakh” bore a much higher rank. According to the book “Unconquered Chechnya,” written by a certain Usmanov, at the time of committing his atrocity he was a colonel: “For this “valiant” operation, its leader, Colonel Gvishiani, was awarded a Government award and promoted to rank.” For another “human rights activist” Pavel Polyan, he is already a colonel general - according to his version, Khaibakh was burned by “internal troops under the command of Colonel General M. Gvishiani.”
True, two years later, Polyan, presumably, still bothered to read the reference book compiled by his colleagues at Memorial and found out that at the time described, Gvishiani held the rank of state security commissioner of the 3rd rank. In a Radio Liberty broadcast on August 3, 2003, he puts the matter this way:
“There is evidence that in a number of villages the NKVD troops actually liquidated the civilian population, including in such a barbaric way as burning. Relatively recently, this kind of operation in the village of Khaibakh, covered with snow, received wide publicity. Not being able to provide transportation for its inhabitants, the internal troops, and they were commanded by the third-rank state security commissioner Gvishiani, drove about two hundred people, and according to other sources, about six hundred to seven hundred people into the stable, where they were locked up and set on fire... And introduced into literature , however, without citing sources, a top secret letter from Gvishiani Beria:
“For your eyes only. Due to its non-transportability and in order to strictly carry out Operation “Mountains” on time, he was forced to liquidate more than seven hundred residents in the town of Khaibakh. Colonel Gvishiani.”
It must be assumed that “Mountains” is a subname of a subpart of the operation, which as a whole was called “Lentil.”
Fake in Brighton
Well, let's analyze the text of this “letter from Gvishiani Beria”. His very first phrase evokes a feeling of deep bewilderment. In fact, the words “for your eyes only” would be appropriate in a love note from some operetta, and not at all in an NKVD document. Anyone who served in the army or at least attended classes at a military department knows that in our country the following classifications were used: “secret”, “top secret”, “top secret of special importance”. However, the “For Your Eyes Only” stamp actually exists in nature. It is used in classified documents in the United States of America.
Thus, it is safe to assume that this “letter” was fabricated in the USA, and it was originally written in English, and only then translated into Russian. In this case, other inconsistencies in it immediately become clear.
So, for some reason Khaibakh is called a “town”. Meanwhile, in all the documents I have seen, Chechen settlements are designated as auls, hamlets, villages, but the term “shtetl” is not found anywhere. Gvishiani himself, a native Georgian, could hardly have used such a word. It’s another matter if the author of the “document” about the burned Khaibakh is some native of Zhmerinka living on Brighton Beach.
It is quite natural that the title “commissioner of state security of the 3rd rank”, mysterious for the American average person, turns into “colonel”, although in fact it corresponded to the rank of lieutenant general. In addition, the author of the “letter” did not know that the operation to evict the Chechens was called “Lentil”, and therefore came up with the name “Mountains” for it.
The most important thing is that there is no other documentary evidence of the extermination of the inhabitants of Chechen villages during the deportation, except for this stupid letter. If even the main “rehabilitator”, former Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Alexander Yakovlev, having access to all archives with the right to publish the contents of any of them, declares that there are documents about the burning of Chechen villages, but does not provide them or at least links, then We are clearly talking about the fruits of his sick imagination.
However, all these arguments will not convince the defenders of the rights of humiliated and insulted peoples. The main propagandist of the myth of the burnt Khaibakh is at odds with his head? It's OK. No documents? So much the worse for documents! They, of course, were destroyed or are still stored in a top-secret special folder.
In a new place
But let's return to the fate of the deportees. The lion's share of the evicted Chechens and Ingush was sent to Central Asia- 402,922 people to Kazakhstan, 88,649 to Kyrgyzstan.
If you believe the denouncers of “crimes of totalitarianism,” the eviction of Chechens and Ingush was accompanied by their mass death—almost a third, or even half, of the deportees allegedly died during transportation to their new place of residence. This is not true. In fact, according to NKVD documents, 1,272 special settlers, or 0.26% of their total number, died during transportation.
Claims that these figures are underestimated, since the dead were allegedly thrown out of the carriages without registration, are simply not serious. In fact, put yourself in the place of the head of the train, who received one number of special settlers at the starting point, and delivered a smaller number to their destination. He would immediately be asked the question: where are the missing people? Died, you say? Or maybe they ran away? Or were you released for a bribe? Therefore, all cases of death of deportees on the way were documented.
Well, what about those few Chechens and Ingush who really fought honestly in the ranks of the Red Army? Contrary to popular belief, they were by no means subjected to wholesale eviction. Many of them were released from the status of special settlers, but at the same time they were deprived of the right to reside in the Caucasus. For example, for military merits, the family of the commander of a mortar battery, Captain U.A. Ozdoev, who had five state awards, was deregistered for a special settlement. She was allowed to live in Uzhgorod. There were many similar cases. Chechens and Ingush women married to persons of other nationalities were also not evicted.
Another myth regarding deportation is associated with the supposedly courageous behavior of Chechen bandits and their leaders, who managed to avoid deportation and partisans almost until the Chechens returned from exile. Of course, some of the Chechens or Ingush could have been hiding in the mountains all these years. However, even if this was the case, there was no harm from them - immediately after the eviction, the level of banditry in the territory of the former Chechen Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic decreased to that characteristic of “quiet” regions.
Most of the bandit leaders were either killed or arrested during the deportation. The leader of the National Socialist Party of the Caucasian Brothers, Khasan Israilov, was in hiding longer than many. In November 1944, he sent the head of the NKVD of the Grozny region V.A. Drozdov a humiliated and tearful letter:
"Hello. I wish you dear Drozdov, I wrote telegrams to Moscow. Please send them to the addresses and send me receipts by mail with a copy of your telegram through Yandarov. Dear Drozdov, I ask you to do everything possible to obtain forgiveness from Moscow for my sins, for they are not as great as they are portrayed. I ask you to send me, through Yandarov, 10–20 pieces of copy paper, Stalin’s report of November 7, 1944, at least 10 pieces of military-political magazines and brochures, 10 pieces of chemical pencils.
Dear Drozdov, please inform me about the fate of Hussein and Osman, where they are, whether they are convicted or not.
Dear Drozdov, I need medicine against the tubercle bacillus, the best medicine has arrived.
“Greetings,” wrote Khasan Israilov (Terloev).”
However, this request remained unanswered. On December 15, 1944, the leader of the Chechen bandits was mortally wounded as a result of a special operation. On December 29, former members of Hasan Israilov’s gang handed over his corpse to the NKVD. After being identified, he was buried in Urus-Martan.
But maybe, having ensured minimal losses for Chechens and Ingush during eviction, the authorities deliberately starved them to death in a new place? Indeed, the mortality rate of special settlers there turned out to be very high. Although, of course, not half or a third of those deported died. By January 1, 1953, there were 316,717 Chechens and 83,518 Ingush in the settlement. Thus, the total number of evictees decreased by approximately 90 thousand people. However, one should not assume that they all died. Firstly, some of the deportees were counted twice. Because of this, their numbers turned out to be overestimated. By October 1, 1948, from among those evicted from North Caucasus 32,981 people were removed from the lists as being double-counted at the time of initial move-in, and another 7,018 people were released.
What caused the high mortality rate? There was no deliberate extermination of Chechens and Ingush. The fact is that immediately after the war, the USSR was struck by a severe famine. Under these conditions, the state had to primarily take care of loyal citizens, and the Chechens and other settlers were largely left to their own devices. Naturally, the traditional lack of hard work and the habit of obtaining food by robbery and robbery did not at all contribute to their survival. However, gradually the settlers settled down in the new place, and the 1959 census already gives a larger number of Chechens and Ingush than at the time of eviction: 418.8 thousand Chechens, 106 thousand Ingush.
the list of references is given at the link
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peoples who were entirely deported from their places of traditional settlement to Siberia, Central Asia and Kazakhstan. These administrative deportations were most widespread during the war, in 1941-1945. Some were evicted preventively, as potential collaborators of the enemy (Koreans, Germans, Greeks, Hungarians, Italians, Romanians), others were accused of collaborating with the Germans during the occupation (Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, peoples of the Caucasus). Total number those expelled and mobilized into the “labor army” reached 2.5 million people (see table). Today there are almost no books of memory dedicated to deported national groups (a rare exception is the Kalmyk book of memory, which was compiled not only from documents, but also from oral surveys).
It all started in the village of Kalinovy, not far from Kyshtym (Chelyabinsk region) on a stormy night on August 13, 1996. Lonely pensioner Tamara Vasilyevna Prosvirina received a “telepathic order”: get up and immediately go to the cemetery. However, the presence of telepathy was explained quite simply: Tamara Vasilyevna was not entirely mentally healthy and periodically collected flowers from the cemetery and even brought into the house photographs of the deceased taken from monuments.
She was, in general, a calm woman, did not offend anyone, and only occasionally, during periods of crisis, ended up in a psychiatric hospital. So the fact is that she wasn't afraid dark night“take a walk” to the cemetery, there is nothing surprising. Another thing is strange: while responding to the “call,” Tamara Vasilyevna found the one who called her... A mentally healthy person, having seen the amazing “find,” might have run away or reported to the police, but this woman took it for granted. The tiny creature with huge eyes only vaguely resembled a human baby, but it squeaked pitifully, and the compassionate old woman decided to take him with her - she wrapped him in some kind of rag, brought him home, fed him and began calling him son Alyoshenka.
The strange baby lived with Prosvirina for only three weeks. The neighbors began to notice something strange in her behavior: where had they ever seen an old woman have a baby? The villagers turned to the doctors, and they, without further ado, put the grandmother in a psychiatric hospital. In vain she cried and insisted that she had a child left unattended in her house...
But, as it turned out, Prosvirina did not have hallucinations. The strange creature was seen by her daughter-in-law Tamara and matchmaker Galina Alferova. But busy women They didn’t pay much attention to the “unknown little animal”, because there was no harm from it: it drinks water from a spoon, sucks caramel, cottage cheese, and milk. It didn’t even require special care, since the baby did not have any distinctive sexual characteristics and an anus. Sometimes his body was covered in perspiration with a slight smell of cologne, and then Tamara Vasilievna simply wiped it with a cloth. The daughter-in-law told how Prosvirina showed her the “child”: “She led me to the bed. I look: there is something beeping there. Or rather, it whistles. His mouth sticks out like a tube and his tongue moves. He is scarlet, with a spatula. And two teeth are visible. I took a closer look: he doesn’t look like a child. The head is brown, the body is gray, the skin is without veins. The eyelids are not visible. And a meaningful look! There are no genitals. And instead of a navel there is a smooth place. The head is onion-shaped, there are no ears, only holes. And eyes like a cat's. The pupil then expands and then contracts. The fingers and toes are long. The legs are folded into a trapezoid. He squealed in response to light and moving objects.
He looked like a very sick person. This creature apparently suffered greatly." Alferova, who has seen a lot in her time, adds: “I have seen so many different things in my life, including premature babies. “Alyoshenka” does not look like a baby at all. The head is not like a pumpkin, but like a helmet: pointed and without hair. And the fontanelles are not visible on it. The fingers are long, thin and sharp, like claws. Five on each arm and leg. He didn’t have a lower jaw, and instead of it there was some kind of skin.”
Left in an empty house without the minimal care that the old woman provided him, the “baby” died. But the house, although sealed, became a godsend for the unemployed cohabitant of the daughter-in-law, Vladimir Nurdinov, who was engaged in the theft and resale of scrap metal. He climbed into the house and found a tiny corpse there, already covered with some kind of larvae. He really liked the “curiosity” and Nurdinov washed it, “dried it in the sun” and hid it in the refrigerator. “Alyoshenka” was discovered by the police during a search. Investigator of the Kyshtym Department of Internal Affairs, Captain of Justice Evgeniy Mokichev was shocked by what he saw: “For a long time I could not figure out what it was, there was some kind of confusion. In front of me lay about 25 cm in length the mummified corpse of a small humanoid creature. It is very difficult to unambiguously assess what lay in front of me, because his head was of an unusual shape - helmet-shaped, consisting of four petals, which connected upward into one plate and formed, as it were, a ridge. His eye sockets were big size. On the front jaw one could distinguish two small, barely visible teeth. The forelimbs were crossed over the chest, and judging by them, they were the same length as the lower ones. The corpse was in a dried, wrinkled state, with many folds of skin on it. The remains emanated a not strong, but unpleasant odor; I find it difficult to say what exactly it smelled like (other witnesses call the smell “plastic”). After that, many specialists examined this corpse - both pathologists and gynecologists, and they all assure that this is not the corpse of a person or a human child. He looked completely different. The structure of the skeleton and skull was not at all human. Even if some creature can mutate very strongly, then to such an extent it is impossible!”
Investigators from the Kyshtym Department of Internal Affairs took video and photographs, took testimony, but did not know what to do next. A pathologist at the city morgue examined the creature in the presence of a paramedic and stated that at least 90% it was not human. The humanoid's skeletal structure was very different from that of a human, especially the pelvic bones, which were designed for both upright walking and on all fours. The forelimbs were also very different in length from human ones. The hands are designed as if they were feet. Apparently, this creature could move in any conditions and in any way, overcome any obstacles. The doctor said that in order to accurately draw conclusions about the nature of this creature, a DNA examination is necessary.
In Moscow, the sensational film was viewed by experts who confirmed the conclusion of pathologist Samoshkin from Kyshtym: this is not a person! They all said that DNA analysis could finally confirm or refute their verdict, but for this they need to find... “Alyoshenka.” Only Yakov Galperin, director of the All-Russian Research Center for Traditional traditional medicine, stated that "the proportions of the creature's head and body do not correspond to any of known to science types of aliens or aliens from parallel worlds,” and therefore “it is possible that this is a child distorted by atomic radiation.”
What else can you add: Ufologists became interested in the remains, and since it was not a human corpse, “Alyoshenka” was handed over to them. For a long time the body passed from hand to hand, and then disappeared... Ufologists claim that it was abducted by aliens, and one “new Russian” from Yekaterinburg proves that he has it in his personal cabinet of curiosities.
But if the police closed the “Alyoshenka case,” the media devoted a lot of articles to it, which attracted attention to the unprecedented creature. An additional sensation was the films of Japanese television documentary makers, who came to Kysh-tym twice and checked the film for a long time and seriously before buying the copyright for it. Perm anomalous zone attracts not only the Japanese. Poles, Germans, and Americans “walked” along it. Mostly TV people. Everyone has the same interest - to try to photograph the “object”. So far, only the Americans have succeeded. In the photo they captured orange balls in Molebka that looked like oranges. But the Perm anomalous zone especially “made a splash” in Japan: a documentary film about the events in Shala and Molebka and about ... the Kyshtym dwarf - the famous alien (?) “Alyoshenka” was released there. The results of an investigation conducted by Kosmopoisk together with a Japanese television company that specializes in studying such mysterious cases around the world (and at the same time sponsoring them) showed that “Alyoshenka” really existed. But the traces of the people who took it out seem to have been lost once again... An interesting hypothesis was put forward about the origin of the “dwarfs”. According to it, their habitat can be very deep karst formations in local caves. The assumption about the existence of such caves was confirmed during the expedition, but the search for “relatives” of “Alyoshenka” has not yet yielded results.
But on the other side of the world, in Puerto Rico, almost thirty years ago, exactly the same creature was killed! The story of the long-standing tragedy, published in the magazines Evidencia OVNI and Hying Saucer Review, is no less mysterious... The second creature found its death near the town of Sapinas, on the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico. A guy named Chinese was wandering through the hills at the foot of the mountains, looking for all sorts of Indian antiquities, and saw several small creatures about thirty centimeters high. One of them tried to grab him by the trouser leg: contact failed - the earthling grabbed a stick and dealt him a crushing blow! The rest disappeared into the bushes. The unwitting killer realized that he had something very rare and perhaps even expensive in his hands. Having found a glass container with a tight lid, he put the body there, bleeding colorless blood, and filled it with alcohol. However, the decomposition did not stop, and he had to go to his friend Professor Calixto Perez, who placed the corpse in formaldehyde. Local businessman Raffaele Baerga, intrigued by the story, asked to bring a container with a small creature, took several photographs in the presence of witnesses and called television, but the journalists did not have time to arrive: a policeman appeared and took the container with the body. Soon the corpse “dissolved” in an unknown direction. They say that, having figured out what was what, the American intelligence agencies got involved. Traces of their work are felt by researchers to this day. The story, as it should be in such cases, has acquired a mass of all kinds of mutually exclusive details. The only truth in them can be considered that the little creature is not a figment of someone’s imagination and that the US government has shown so much interest in it for a reason.
But today, after the Japanese producer Deguchi Macao appointed a prize of 200 thousand dollars for “Alyoshenka” and the media were again full of articles on this topic, in Russia they returned to the research of the only thing that remained from the Kyshtym dwarf - to the “shroud” - a rag, in which he was wrapped at the time of death. However, two attempts to conduct genetic analysis were unsuccessful. At the beginning of 2004, the leading researcher at the A. N. Belozersky Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology of the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Candidate of Biological Sciences V. V. Aleshin, completed his investigation. During his experiments, he also failed to detect human genes in the presented sample. In April 2004, Cosmopoisk coordinator Vadim Chernobrov made a new attempt to investigate detective story. He transferred the genetic material to the RAS laboratory, headed by Professor V. Shevchenko. Human DNA was isolated from the blood stains of the “dwarf”! Moreover, only female X chromosomes are found in the blood. Comparisons of this DNA with the DNA of two monkeys and three humans (two women and one man) showed that "the sample was consistent with the DNA of a person with multiple developmental disabilities." So it’s possible that this “Alyoshenka” is most likely an ordinary freak who was born due to the environmental pollution of the territory.
But to be honest, there are a lot of deviations. Many details of the structure of the humanoid have not yet found any intelligible explanation. The absence of a navel, genitals, excretory organs, ears, the presence of a full set of teeth, a bud-shaped skull and other sharp differences from normal human structure- all this perhaps indicates the extraterrestrial origin of “Alyoshenka”. In fact, how could he be born without a navel, and even live for several weeks? Recently, the phenomenon from Kysh-Tym has been perceived only with skepticism among scientists. This is what the chief scientific secretary of Chelyabinsk says scientific center Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Boris Gelchinsky: “In my opinion, it is not worth excluding the existence of humanoids in general. Who knows who created us, maybe we are all humanoids. Today’s science is not yet capable of studying all phenomena, especially since scientists are too conservative people.”
For many years people have been discussing the topic “Who was Alyosha from Kyshtym?” A creature from another planet or just a clever fake? It's time to find out the truth about the real origin of this mysterious find.
Detection
The world learned about the existence of the Kyshtym dwarf Alyoshenka thanks to investigator Evgeny Mokichev. While investigating the theft of a copper wire, he identified the suspect and summoned Vladimir Nurtdinov for questioning. After a long conversation local told the investigator that the body of a real alien was kept in his garage. Believe in this wild story Mokichev could not, but still turned to his superiors with a request to check this fact. Having received permission, he headed to the indicated place and saw this mysterious alien with his own eyes.
Nurtdinov said that to preserve the creature, he had to remove all the insides from the body and dry it to the state of a mummy. The man did not hide the fact that he simply stole Kyshtym Alyosha from the house of his neighbor - an elderly woman with a mental disorder. The investigator took the incredible find with him to show it to professional experts. At that moment, he no longer doubted that the dwarf was of extraterrestrial origin. It looked too unusual and had a specific smell. An experienced policeman knew what a mummified human body smells like.
Appearance of Kyshtym Alyosha
The dwarf's mummy looked like a small mutilated body with a disproportionate big head. It is worth noting that the skull itself had only 4 plates, and not 6, like a normal person. Outwardly, he resembled a premature baby, but pathologist Samoshkin immediately rejected this version. Firstly, the creature had strong bones, not cartilage, like embryos. Secondly, he had a full set of teeth. There was no navel on the body, which indicated that he was not born of a woman. The expert did not find any hint of genitals or secretions. It seems that Alyosha the Kyshtym excreted all waste through his skin. The dwarf's head resembled an onion and was crushed.
Who found the Kyshtym dwarf and when?
On a late May evening, pensioner Tamara Prosvirina began to experience a feeling of anxiety and a desire to go outside. An unknown call pulled her through the gate into the forest. There she saw a creature lying on the ground and making plaintive sounds. The woman picked him up and took him home. She gave him a name in honor of her recently deceased grandson - Alyoshenka.
Caring Tamara went with the find to the hospital to find out why this baby looked so strange. At the clinic they showed her the door and complained that doctors had nothing to treat people with, but she brought them an alien for examination. It sounds a little crazy, but don't forget that it was 1996. The restless woman went to the police, but even there she was turned away. No one was interested in the strange-looking baby in diapers.
New house
The pensioner returned home and began to care for the creature like a child. She fed him food from her table and later claimed that the alien was very fond of chewing toffee. He couldn’t speak, but he made a whistle with which he expressed his emotions or needs. She wiped away the mucus that Alyoshenka secreted through the pores of his skin with a wet cloth. The new tenant lived in the house for just over two weeks.
The woman went out for a walk with him more than once and showed her neighbors this strange humanoid. People were horrified, but looked at the funny alien with interest. In one of the conversations with her neighbors, she mentioned that she wanted to register Alyosha in the apartment. This rumor quickly reached the ears of the direct heirs, and they hastened to eliminate this problem. The orderlies took the woman to a psychiatric hospital, and the alien died some time later at the hands of local alcoholics. His head was crushed. After Tamara was taken to the hospital, her house was filled with unreliable individuals. They didn’t like the strange neighbor, and they simply killed him. Then Nurtdinov found him.
Further developments
After it was established that the creature did not belong to the human race, the criminal case of its murder was closed. The Kyshtym dwarf Alyoshenka himself was taken home by an investigator and placed in the freezer. However, the wife began to be indignant at the fact that there was a corpse in her refrigerator, and the man had to give the body to shady individuals who introduced themselves as researchers of paranormal creatures.
A few years later, the woman found out how many thousands of dollars foreigners were offering for the dwarf, and she very much regretted her behavior. The further fate of the alien is shrouded in darkness. It was not possible to find those people, and one can only guess where he is now Kyshtym dwarf Alyosha. The mystery of its origin still interests millions of people.
Research
Thanks to the video filming conducted by the investigator, the story received great publicity on the Internet. People began to wonder where the Kyshtym dwarf had disappeared and who he really was. The pieces of fabric on which Alyoshenka was lying were subjected to multiple examinations, and all researchers came to ambiguous conclusions. According to some, it turned out that the creature was a premature baby with numerous developmental disabilities, female. Others argued that it was a real alien and that no similarity to human DNA was found. Perhaps in the future technologies will appear that will be able to establish with a high probability the origin of the dwarf. At the moment, this is one of the most mysterious mysteries in history, and interest in it will not fade for many years.
In August 1996, a resident of the village of Kalinovy (a suburb of Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk region) Prosvirina T.V. found and brought home a living creature. In the annals it remained as the “Kyshtym dwarf”. The creature resembled a man, but everyone who saw it unequivocally said that it was not a man. Then what was it? Or who? (website)
Alien "Alyoshenka"
Lonely pensioner Tamara Prosvirina was not quite mentally healthy person, was registered in a mental hospital. She often went to the local cemetery, where she collected flowers. August 13, 1996 she returned from a hike with a package in which a strange living creature lay and squeaked. The old woman kept him and called him “Alyoshenka.”
Tamara Alferova, Prosvirina’s daughter-in-law, often visited her daughter-in-law, cooked food, and cleaned the room. When Tamara was absent from the city (she worked on a rotational basis as a cook), her mother Galina Alferova came instead, who was often accompanied by Vladimir Nurdinov, who rented a room from her. In addition to these three, “Alyoshenka” was seen alive by Prosvirina’s neighbor Nina Glazyrina, Alferova’s son and several other people. With minor, completely acceptable differences, they all describe “Alyoshenka” in the same way.
Humanoid, height 25-30 cm, body with fur, slit instead of lips, fingers with claws, tongue, two teeth, eyes without lids. Large eyes, pupils dilate and contract, like a cat’s. Without genitals (“I even checked with my finger - everything was smooth there, like a doll”). The head is like a bulb, there are holes instead of ears. There was no belly button!
“Alyoshenka” did not walk, could not feed himself - Prosvirina fed him curd cheese and watered him from a spoon. He reacted to light and movement with squeals and whistles. No one who saw him took him for a person, and treated “Alyoshenka” as a strange animal like a kitten, although to many the creature’s gaze seemed meaningful.
The absurd death of the Kyshtym dwarf
The creature lived with the old woman for almost a month. It all ended very sadly. The pensioner walked around the yard and shared her joy that she had a “son Alyoshenka”, whom she would put under her last name and who would now live with her. Since everyone knew about Prosvirina’s illness, it was perceived as a relapse. The orderlies arrived, gave an injection and took the old woman away for treatment. Prosvirina cried and asked not to take her away: “Alyoshenka, my son is left at home,” but who would listen to a crazy grandmother?
A few days later, Galina Alferova, having learned that Prosvirina was admitted to the hospital, came to her house. When she and Nurdinov, who accompanied her, entered the room, they smelled a strange smell. “Alyoshenka” was lying on the bed. He was dead. Left without a caring “mother”, he died of hunger.
Major Bendlin is leading the investigation.
The story could have ended there, remaining only in the memory of a few witnesses, but Alferova’s lodger Vladimir Nurdinov took the body and dried it. In September, he showed the mummy to the investigator of the Kyshtym police department, Yevgeny Mokachev, and he told everything to his partner, Major Vladimir Bendlin, who began to unravel the case.
Bendlin talked with witnesses, photographed the mummy, and filmed it. We owe almost everything we know about the “Kyshtym dwarf” to him. Bendlin dealt with “Alyoshenka” in his free time; they even refused to register this event at the duty station.
In addition to natural curiosity, the major was also driven by a sense of duty: if this is the corpse of a premature baby, there is every reason to initiate a criminal case. However, having seen more than one criminal miscarriage, this time the major could not say with 100% certainty that it was a human corpse. He decided to turn to specialists.
Pathologist Stanislav Samoshkin, to whom Bendlin presented the mummy, concluded that it was not a person. The structure of the skeleton did not meet average human standards; the skull consisted of 4 bones. However, he could not answer what it was then. He had never seen such skeletons, and they were not studied at the institute. Separately, Samoshkin noted that the brain cavity of the mummy’s skull is much larger than the face. On Earth, only humans have this feature.
At this point, Major Bendlin exhausted his capabilities. Expertise was required, which cost money, and special research in laboratory conditions with the involvement of trained specialists. The authorities did not welcome Bendlin’s aspirations and complained that the major was doing nonsense, even in his free time from work.
In an effort to reach a new level, Bendlin contacted the Kamenets-Ural ufological organization “UFO-Contact”. The head of the organization, Galina Semenkova, responded to the call, and Bendlin handed over the mummy to her for a full study. After some time, he received a message that it was an ordinary miscarriage.
The end of the story about the Kyshtym dwarf? Not really
However, it didn't end there. The story became known to the media and publications began to appear. Cunning journalists discovered that the mummy was examined in one of the Yekaterinburg research institutes, but they were unable to advance further. We contacted Galina Semenkova, the head of UFO-Contact, to whom Bendlin handed over the mummy of “Alyoshenka”.
When asked by journalists about the fate of the mummy, Galina Ivanovna sparingly answered that it had not disappeared anywhere, it had been seized by the competent authorities, it was being examined, and she herself knew nothing more. The results of the research, she was told, would be made public “when the time is right.”
