Tag #142318 - Interview #95224 (Ferdinand Chernovich)

National politics conducted by Stalin was also ruthless. What was the need to exile [Forced deportation to Siberia] [43] such peoples as Chechens, Crimean Tartars and Kalmyks [44]. I saw the representatives of many nationalities in the lines. They did not fight worse than any others. Even in the post-war period, especially in frontier troops there was an order not to send on duty two people of non-Russian nationality simultaneously.  People felt that they were not trusted and I doubt whether they would feel love for the USSR. When I was employed at the plant, construction works were being held on the territory of the plant carried out by the prisoners.