Stalin Deported the Chechens in WWII

During the Second World War, Joseph Stalin, seized by one of his historic fits of paranoia and cruelty, declared the Chechen people disloyal to the U.S.S.R. and banished them from their homeland.

Courtesy: worldatlas.com

(PORTLAND, OR) - Remick seems to suggest the Chechen terrorists fighting for separation from Russia were justified because they were deported in WW2. Stalin had a “fit”? He was then in desperate battle with the invading Nazis who were able to mobilize supporters among the minorities, especially in the Baltic states and the Ukraine. FDR did not have a similar excuse.

David Remick , editor of the New Yorker, opens his rant on the Boston bombers:

“In the midst of the Second World War, Joseph Stalin, seized by one of his historic fits of paranoia and cruelty, declared the Chechen people disloyal to the U.S.S.R. and banished them from their homeland in the northern Caucasus to Central Asia and the Siberian wastes.”

Read more:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/04/29/130429ta_talk_remnick?printable=true&currentPage=all#ixzz2R3BZeYqo

How about: “In the midst of the second World War, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, seized by a historic fit of paranoia and cruelty, declared the Japanese-American people on the Pacific Coast disloyal to the USA and banished them from their homes to the deserts and wastes of their homeland.”

Portland Tribune photo by L.E. Baskow

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