Word: karachai
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...people aboard. It became Soviet policy, moreover, to pretend that the broken and scattered nations had never existed. The Volga Germans, descendants of settlers welcomed by Catherine the Great, were dispossessed not only of national existence but of their history-as were seven Asiatic nations, including Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingushi, Karachai, Balkars, Meskhetians and the Crimean Tatars. In the great reshuffling of borders and renaming of regions to obliterate old names, even the houses of the Crimean Tatars, Conquest writes, "were demolished and their vines and orchards allowed to become wild and overgrown. The Tatars' cemeteries were plowed...
...acts whose initiator was Stalin ... the mass deportations from their native places of whole nations, together with all Communists and Komsomols without any exception; this deportation action was not dictated by any military considerations. At the end of 1943 a decision was taken and executed to deport all the Karachai from the lands on which they lived. In the same period, the same lot befell the whole population of the Autonomous Kalmyk Republic. In March 1944 all the Chechen and Ingush peoples were deported and the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic was liquidated. In April 1944 all Balkars were deported...
...British plan to return on June 26. Lyons, Rome, Brindisi, Athens, Cairo, Karachai is their first lap. They will then go to Calcutta, across Burma to Hongkong and Tokyo, then across the Pacific to Vancouver, through Canada to Newfoundland, and then across the Atlantic to Lisbon, via the Azores, Paris, London. If all goes according to schedule, the two expeditions will cross each other's paths in Japan...
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