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Chechens) viewed Russians not only as oppressors but also as illegitimate interlopers living on stolen land. Russians meanwhile viewed Vainakh as being less than them, and furthermore as subversive agents of Turkish interests. Thus, the brawl and the death of the one Russian sailor was only the spark that lit the fuse leading to the formation of the Russian mob that rioted.
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marched on the railway station. Their goal was to spread the word to their "brothers" (i.e. other
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Russians themselves. However, the capture of the train station by the Russians and Cossacks was the last straw. Around the midnight
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A Russian female who claimed she had formerly been a member of the regional party committee and the
Council of Ministers stood up and voiced the Russians' demands. They included the establishment of "Russian power", a mass search and disarming of all Chechens and Ingush (with those found with weapons
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Throughout the whole affair, the non-Russians of the republic did not retaliate and showed large amounts of self-restraint, perhaps hoping against hope that the
Russians would be stopped. The authorities only intervened, however, when the Russian/Cossack band began looting government buildings (i.e.
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Russians of the city (including the communists) pinned red headbands upon their heads so that they would not be taken for Vainakh. The crowd beat to death at least one elderly Chechen from Urus-Martan while the law enforcement officials stood by and
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for 13 years before they returned in 1957 and resented their return, as they had been living in
Vainakh houses on Vainakh land and doing jobs that had been done by Vainakh before the deportation. The return of the Vainakh (Chechens and Ingush) caused competition between the two groups over housing
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The mob escalated its actions further and further. A crowd of 500 people attacked the post office, and demanded an audience with the central Soviet government in Moscow. The crowd then went to a long-distance telephone station, but was unable to reach Moscow still. At 23:00 on the 27th, the mob
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after August 27, they approached the protester-held train station, hoping to reestablish law and order without a fight. However, the
Russian mob, already highly excited, began pelting them with stones and various hard objects.
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On the 27th, Major General Stepanov of the Military Aviation School issued an ultimatum to the local Soviet that the Chechens must be sent back to Siberia or otherwise his Russians would "tear (them) to pieces".
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