Oh, well that wasn't me. I can't say I know the what the majority of Soviet historians say.
Truth be told most books on Soviet history (in the West at least) play to the totalitarian empire narrative simply because it sells more books. The higher up the academic chain you go the more nuanced it gets.
You'd have to learn russian to understand all this. Post-soviet community of historians is self-sufficient, not many of them have a passion to be published in "Annales", that's why they don't write many english articles
Nearly half of the total Chechen population have died as a result of deportation. NKVD set a deliberately harsh conditions for Chechens, which makes the deportation fall under the legal definition of genocide.
So, they should have been left untouched even after they have supported nazis and after many chechens deserting from the army/avoiding the conscription?
>the entire ethnic group should have been genocided because some of its members have supported the Nazis
Yeah, those tens of thousands of children that have starved to death on the road to Siberia totally deserved it!
>NKVD set a deliberately harsh conditions for Chechens
Nah, the conditions were just harsh in of themselves.
It was WWII. The Nazis were invading and destroying everything. People truly underestimate the hell that was the eastern front.
They were Not thats a myth
Whend the german army was at the gates of moskow some oficials came to stalins villa to ask him for orders (to retreat or to stay in moskow) Stalin later wrote in his diarys he though the officials came to his house to execute him
>forced relocation is not genocide
Andrew Jackson spotted. Dead historical figures aren't allowed on Veeky Forums, reported.
>One million Soviet soldiers were BTFO while Army Group North encircled Leningrad
>Siege of Leningrad was so bad and impenetrable that 600,000 civilians die, and many resort to cannibalism
>400,000 more civilians die during the evacuations
>NKVD then arrests and kills a few thousand civilians who had to resort to cannibalism
Wait, doesn't the fact that they didn't arrest and execute him prove that they indeed were a bunch of spineless cucks?