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I'm quite familiar with this topic actually as while going to Caucasus for the last ~15 years I've met probably dozens of people who actually survived the deportation and the memory is still very fresh.
Probably the most idiotic thing in the whole deportation was collective responsibility: out of 2'000'000 Balkars maybe 2'000 actually collaborated with Nazis but the whole nation was deported.
At the same time ROA had like 50'000 Russians.