23 February 1944

On 23 February 1944, Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Chechen and Ingush population to Central Asia. More than half of the 500,000 people who were to be forcibly transported died in transit or in massacres committed by Soviet troops.

Digtet her er fra min bog AKTINDSIGT dansk/russisk oversat af Viktor Omkvist

23 FEBRUAR

Taktfast
marcherende støvler.
Et ekko i historien
overdøver lyden af fødder
drevet afsted mod de
ventende togvogne,
fordrivelsen af et helt folk
fortoner sig
i Gulag Øhavet,
men de løsrevne blade
fra den uendelige lidelseshistorie
hvirvles op
af helikopternes slipstrøm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-2eqtae_m8