Mass deportations of native nations to ratify Stalin's regime in 1940s

Abstract

In the article highlighted the mass deportations of Oirato-Kalmyks, Karachay-Balkars, Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and other native nations had positive results for the totalitarian Soviet regime. Deportations undermined the will of the indigenous peoples to resist for several decades, although it was continued by a small number of passionaries who were ready to resist Soviet power even while in camps. In general, by relying on the social unconscious, the native nations were forced to demonstrate loyalty to the Soviet system, which was at the peak of its power. At the same time, the basis of national identity became an underlying distrust of Moscow, a potential hostility that manifested itself in conditions of its weakening. The development of the national movements of the native nations who were subjected to mass deportations in the conditions of the systemic crisis of the Soviet system in the 1960-s and 1980-s will be considered in the following articles. The originality of the research lies in the fact that for the first time the mass deportations of the indigenous peoples of the USSR were comprehensively examined on the basis of the introduction into scientific circulation of interviews with their representatives.