Evening star., 1946-06-26
Two Soviet Republics
Lose Autonomy for
Wartime Treachery
By the Associated Pre.

NooSoV, CuilC LO.-l WO lOT-
merly autonomous Soviet repub-
lies in South Russia have been
deprived of their autonomy and
many of their inhabitants have
been resettled in other parts of
Russia as penalties for wartime
treachery, it was disclosed off,
cially today.
The Crimean and Chechen-I -Ingush
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Re-
publics. units of the Russian Soviet
Federal Socialist Republic, were
abolished as such and reduced to
the status of provinces of the fed
Grafton.
Total populations of the areas last
were listed as 100000, but large
proportion of Russians and Ukran-
ians, who lived in the republics and
whose loyalty was unquestioned,
were not removed.
The banished residents included
those who lived around the Grozny
and Mosdok oil fields in the North
ern Caucasus, near the high tide of
the German invasion. The action
was revealed in published DEGREES of
the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist
Republic. Precisely how many were
uprooted and where they were moved
were not announced
(The revelations were the first
official Russian announcements
of treachery affecting territorial
units of the Soviet Union during
the recent war;
Formed Diversion Bands.
A decree said many Chechens and
Crimean Tartars voluntarily
and together with the German
Army waged an armed struggle
against units of the Red Army. Un-
der German orders. they also formed
diversion bands for a struggle with
Soviet power in the rear
The decree also stated that the
main mass of the population of
Chechen-Ingush and the Crimean
Autonomous Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies did not give opposition to these
traitors" and accordingly the Chez
hens and Crimean Tartars were re-
settled.
Qn the complicated compost
ton of the Soviet Union, the
Russian Soviet Federal Socialist
Republic, whose capital is Mos
COW, is one of l6 constituent re-
publics of the Soviet Union. The
federation occupies 927 per cent
of the total area of the U. S. S.
R., and included AS of last year
Is so-called autonomous Soviet
Socialist Republics" of which the
Crimea and Chechen-Ingush
were two.
(The Statemans Yearbook
shows that before the change the
Russian Soviet Federal Socialist
Republic also included 80 regions,
or provinces, such as Moscow,
Stalingrad Leningrad, Rostov .
and Omsk. Thus the changes
apparently reduce the number of
autonomous Soviet Socialist Re-
publics" in the federation to IA
and increase the regions, or
provinces, to 80. /
(Under the federation. the
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Re-
publics' obtained higher degree
of local government than the
regions, or provinces, which are
governed directly by the fedora
ton.
tAVallable references fail to
show any considerable Germanic
elements in the two denoted
regions)
Borders Stalin's Home Republic.
The Chechen-Ingush republic in
the North Caucasus bordered Prime
Minister Stains home republic of
Georgia and included the Grozny
and Mosdok oil fields, which the
Germans reached at the high tide
OF their invasion before the reverse
at Stalingrad. The republics popu-
lation was placed at 100000.
The Crimean state population was
given as nearly 100000 in 1889
in the Soviet Encyclopedia. The
figures included Russians, Ukrain-
Ae'iAo anu OlllCIS llFlliS tIlbl6 DIS we'll
as the local natives. Russians,
Ukrainlans and others whose loyalty
was not questioned were not re-
moved from the area.
The Ministry of State control dis
closed also that more than a score
OF factory, mill and mine executives
mad been punished for misappropria-
alton or miSusing funds in various
kinds of plants and enterprises
throughout Russia.
Production Reports FaIsified.
The ministry said favorite prac-
tlce was the Justification of pro-
ductlon reports by directors and
sub-executives in order to increase
the prize money which was paid as
reward to themselves and their
friends.
A woman and 25 men were listed
In the newspapers Izvestia and
Pravda as offenders in coal mining
aviation, Diesel engine and other
enterprises.
1zvestia said the case of the
Schekinugol Mining Trust was twp
1cal. Fake production reports were
discovered there. A mine chief. G.
N. kamchatov, and a chief book
Keeper, S. G.. Lyahov, were dis