February 23, 1944 is the most tragic date in the history of the Waynakh people. On that memorable day, according to the direct order of the Soviet head of state, Joseph Stalin the total deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan began with the subsequent liquidation of the National Authority (Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). All of the people were officially blamed for “treason and mass collaboration with the German fascists.”