"Ordered to forget"? - “Forget it!”

The Ministry of Culture did not issue a distribution certificate for the film "Ordered to Forget", which tells about the Khaibach tragedy of 1944, as a "historical fake" and a work that can "sow ethnic hatred."

On July 4, 2014 it became known that the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy conducted a comprehensive psychological and linguistic examination of Hussein's feature film Erkenov "Ordered to forget", which tells about the destruction of 700 a man in the mountain village of Khaibakh during the deportation of Chechen and Ingush peoples in 1944. The picture did not contain information that could contribute incitement of inter-ethnic and inter-confessional hatred and calls for extremist activities. Fragments of this document were posted on his Facebook page by the film's producer Ruslan Kokonaev.

Research authored by d.ph.s. professor Evgeny Tarasov, which was held at the end of June 2014 at the request of a lawyer Murad Musaev, representing the interests of the authors of the film, was preceded the following events.

In June 2014, the Ministry of Culture did not issue a distribution certificate to the film Ordered to Forget. Instead, the authors of the picture received a letter signed Director of the Department of Cinematography and Modernization Programs of the Ministry of Culture Vyacheslav Telnov. This document stated that the archives of the NKVD did not contain any one document confirming the events in Haibach, the plot of the film was called a " historical fake ", and also contained the assertion that the demonstration paintings can " sow ethnic discord ".

At the same time, representatives of the Ministry stated that the film was not issued a distribution certificate before the examination - without disclosing the nature of this examination.

The authors describe "Ordered to Forget" as " a feature film on historical material "and add that when it was created they used many documents. There is no reason to doubt this: the Khaibach tragedy is widely known and quite well studied by domestic and foreign historians (we will mention only Viktor Shnirelman's book "Being Alans" (M.: NLO, 2006), in which this An entire chapter is dedicated to events.

Against this background, the actions of the Ministry of Culture are perceived as an attempt at censorship, the desire to ignore facts that contradict the emerging official version of history (including, among other things, the rehabilitation of Stalinism). The use of anti-extremist rhetoric in this case only confirms that in the minds of many citizens (including officials) "extremism" has become synonymous with everything that is uncomfortable, unpleasant and does not fit into their picture peace.

Sources

• Krizhevsky Alexey. "There is no question in Chechnya whether there was a tragedy in Khaibakh or not" // Gazeta.ru. 2014. June 25.
• In the film "Ordered to forget" did not find inciting ethnic hatred // Gazeta.ru. 2014. July 4.