The operation under the code name "Chechevitsa", during which Chechens and Ingushes were deported en masse to Kazakhstan and Middle Asia was held from February 23 to March 9, 1944. The reasons for such repressions were declared in mass desertion, draft evasion during the war time and preparation of an armed uprising in the Soviet rear. According to the International Society "Memorial" in 1943-44, 485,000 people were deported from Chechnya and Ingushetia.
"During that first winter, nearly a third of all special resettlers died of typhus, starvation and cold, dead. Many of our relatives died'' said a pensioner Gubati Galaeva.
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