heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk:
In both cases minorities took up arms against the Soviet state - it was entitled to defend itself, just as it was entitled to defend itself against the white armies.
--- Completely unlike when Stalin deported the Ingush, Chechens and Cherkess for taking arms against the Soviet state, of course.
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