Russia: Deportation of Karachais

Written byVeronica Khokhlova
Posted 6 November 2006 20 years ago

J. Otto Pohl writes about yet another tragic anniversary: the 1943 deportation of Karachais “from their ancestral homeland in the North Caucasus to desolate areas of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.”

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Written byVeronica Khokhlova

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