I think problems were "indicated" within three or four minutes of each other, not an hour.
You know how it all started?
When Hitler was getting close on Baku (Azeri capital), main source of oil for USSR then, Chechens rebelled, paving the way for Nazis. If Baku was captured, USSR would have been cut off from its main source of oil and the war would be over in a matter of months. No need to say, who would be the winner.
What did Stalin do? One night NKVD (People's Comissary for Interior Affairs, kind-of KGB) came over, packed all Chechens into railway cars (made for cattle) and sent them over to frozen steppes Kazakhstan (it was winter then). Many Chechens perished.
Apart from any moral evaluations of what has happend, it is important to say, that Chechens remember the exile very well, reminding about it to the world every time (cruel Russians, heavy hand!). But you will seldomly hear, why it has happened.
I wonder what have happend now if Germans captured Baku. I bet Steve Harris with his "Fatherland" could be a documentary novel.
And the author of this post could be working as a slave on some farm, if his parents were not "exterminated".