"The Soviet Union is justly considered as a model of a multi-national State, because we have in practice assured the equality and friendship of all nations which live in our fatherland. All the more monstrous were the acts whose initiator was Stalin, and which were rude violations of the basic Leninist principles of the nationality policy of the Soviet State. We refer to the mass deportations from their native places of whole nations--action which was not dictated by any military considerations.
"At the end of 1943, when there occurred a permanent breakthrough at the front in our favor, a decision was taken and executed concerning the deportation of all the Karachai from the lands on which they lived. In the same period, at the end of December 1943, the same lot befell the whole population of the Autonomous Kalmuck Republic. In March 1944, all the Chechen and Ingush peoples were deported and the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic was liquidated. In April 1944, all Balkars were deported to places far away from the territory of the Kabardyno-Balkar Autonomous Republic and the republic itself was renamed the Autonomous Kabardynian Republic. The Ukrainians avoided meeting this fate only because there were too many of them, and there was no place to which to deport them. Otherwise he would have deported them also.
"Not only a Marxist-Leninist, but also a man of common sense, can grasp how it is possible to make whole nations responsible for inimical activity, including women, children, old people, Communists and Komsomols; to use mass repression against them; and to expose them to misery and suffering for the hostile acts of individual persons or groups of persons."
