Last Friday, mosques throughout the northern Caucasus commemorated the 75th anniversary of the mass deportation of the Karachays to Central Asia by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Between November 2 and November 5, 1943, some 70,000 Karachais, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group of the North Caucasus, were deported in cattle train cars to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, because they allegedly collaborated with Nazi Germany.
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