As for the Gulags, they were not shipped to Gulags, Stalin went soft on them and sent them into exile not the Gulags...otherwise there would be a lot less Chechins. As for the transfer, in 24 hours 90% were gone with only 110 fatalities, mostly heart attacks....now as usual, lets do away with the half truths and examine why they were exiled: ACTIVE COOPERATION AND ALLIANCE with Hitler during the Nazi summer '42 campeign. See the interesting things History Brings up.
As for torture, if anything, we learned from them. Don't start the: they're from the third world and are always victems and are otherwise blameless, routine.
So transporting the entire population is a justifiable and proportionate response to the actions of a minority of nationalists is it? Lets look at who else "actively cooperated and allied" themselves to Hitler; the Northern Irish Republicans, the Austrians, the Swedes, the Swiss, the Finns, Henry Ford, Lord Mosely, Lord Halifax and Edward the VIII, to name but a few. The Chechens were not alone, but they were alone in the exceptional punishment they received.
As for torture, if anything, we learned from them. Don't start the: they're from the third world and are always victems and are otherwise blameless, routine.
Are you joking?! Russians were devising new and more sophisticated methods of torture before they ever set foot in Chechnya. Knouting people to death in public, was a favourite method of execution in Russia under the Czar. Oh well, Stavka, I suppose its back to the drawing board if your trying to portray Russia as a compassionate society.
Oh, here's something else which "actively cooperated and allied" itself to Hitler - the USSR, up until the NAZIS invaded in 1941. As I remember it, Germany and the USSR divided up Poland between them and subjugated the Polish population.