re: #60 Dark_Falcon

The crisis in Iraq happened in 1941. Germany did not move towards Baku until the late spring/early summer of 1942.

You mean uprisings only get to happen once? If the Chechens carried out an uprising and then inflamed Azeris and the other Caucuses and then the Turks near by who were neutral?

That was what was going through the minds of the Kremlin then in a war that was a literal life struggle.

Also, less Chechens died in the deportations than the US killed in the fire bombing of Dresden. But you know, Stalin.