Day of national mourning of the Chechen and Ingush people
On February 23, Chechnya and Ingushetia do not congratulate men. For the Vainakhs, this is the Day of Remembrance of the Mass Deportation. Operation "Lentil" - this was the name given to the plan for the forcible deportation of the Vainakhs from the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and adjacent regions to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, took place from February 23 to March 9, 1944. In its course, according to various estimates, from 500 to 650 thousand Chechens and Ingush were evicted. During the eviction and the first years after it, about 100 thousand Chechens and 23 thousand Ingush died, that is, approximately one in four of both peoples.
