Russia bans ‘historically false’ film on Stalin deportations of Chechens

MOSCOW, May 27 — Russia has refused to permit the release of a film about the mass deportations of entire ethnic groups on Joseph Stalin's orders during World War II, calling it anti-Russian and a falsification of history. The historical drama shot in Chechnya details how the Soviets forcibly deported the whole Chechen nation and the related Ingush group—half a million people—from their homeland in the North Caucasus to Central Asia in the winter...read more>>