North Caucasus Number 44

The newsreel is dedicated to the investigation of the act of genocide committed in 1944 in Chechnya in the village of Khaibakhoy by the NKVD. Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Galanchozh District. Fighting tower Gelaga. Civil funeral service at the cemetery for the executed and burned civilians by the NKVD. Photos of the exhumation of the dead; the act of the Extraordinary Commission on the mass destruction of people. Descendants of the killed Chechens at the burial of the remains. Men are digging graves and carefully stacking the remains of the dead Chechens. Village teacher S. Gaev tells about the death of 8 direct relatives in the village during the deportation of Chechens in 1944 (sinhr.). A resident of the village of Khaibakh A. Tutaeva with her grandson on the porch of her house talks about the events of 1944 (sinhr.). Eighty-year-old S. Zakriev talks about the residents burnt alive (sync. In Chechen). Kh. Murtazaliev talks about the humanity of the soldiers who lived in their house in 1944, and the impossibility of preventing the tragedy in the village of Khaibakh (behind the scenes).

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Lyricist P. Finkelberg, announcer U. Baskaev, sound engineer R. Tuayev, editor G. Martynova, music producer V. Belyansky, editor I. Cherdzhieva