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The Chechen and Ingush deportations occured in 1946, year after WW2 ended. Holy shit. You relativizing a deportation into a cold region with a lack of resources for survival that killed 1/4 and 1/3 of the Chechen and Ingush populations is bordering on the relativization I usually get from neonazis about the Holocaust.
It was in Feb. & Mar. of 1944, and it still wasn’t a “deportation,” no matter how many times you repeat it. They were not deported from the USSR.
And there was another wave in 1946. Also it was a deportation. Deportation doesn't mean you get removed from your nation. It means you get removed from your homeland which could be a region, a state or a nation. Also they werent given a choice. And 1/3 of Ingush dying as a result of deportation still counts as genocide.