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Operation Lentil (Caucasus)
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Operation Lentil (Caucasus)
Operation Lentil
(,
Chechevitsa
; ,
Ardakh
) was the
Soviet expulsion
of the whole of the
Vainakh
(
Chechen
and
Ingush
) populations of the North Caucasus to
Central Asia
during
World War II
. The expulsion, preceded by the
1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya
, was ordered on 23 February 1944 by
NKVD
chief
Lavrentiy Beria
after approval by
Soviet Premier
Joseph Stalin
, as a part of
Soviet forced settlement program
and
population transfer
that affected several million members of non-Russian Soviet ethnic minorities between the 1930s and the 1950s.
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