Soviet wartime deportations created unresolved property disputes that ignited post-Soviet ethnic wars

Evidence

Russia’s third anti-Muslim war, in the North Caucasus with the Chechens, had a prologue in the fighting in 1992-1993 between the neighboring Orthodox Ossetians and Muslim Ingush. The latter together with the Chechens and other Muslim peoples were deported to central Asia during World War II. The Ossetians remained and took over Ingush properties. In 1956-1957 the deported peoples were allowed to return and disputes commenced over the ownership of property and the control of territory. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 764

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘deportation, repossession, return, then violent dispute’ sequence is a regional instance of the dispossession-and-return dynamic familiar from other ethnic cleansings (e.g., Falklands, Israeli-Palestinian, Balkan).
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 764