'Half-Naked And Barefoot': Chechens, Ingush Recall 1944 Deportations
- By Current Time
In February 1944, the regime of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin started forcibly deporting nearly half a million people from the Caucasus region to Central Asia. Many did not survive the transports. Seventy-five years later, survivors who remain in Kazakhstan spoke to Current Time about the lasting trauma of being torn from their homes and families.