"Не я предала советскую власть, а она меня. И не только меня одну – весь горский народ. Она отняла нашу свободу, землю, радость, наши горы и даже наш вкус- ный воздух. Я беспредельно чтила Ленина, верила Сталину. Была патриоткой до мозга костей. Помню, как меня вдохновляли песни про Ленина, про Сталина, с каким воодушевлением я пела: Широка страна моя родная, Много в ней лесов, полей и рек. Я другой такой страны не знаю, Где так вольно дышит человек! Пела до тех пор, пока «страна моя родная» не накинула мне петлю на шею. Вот когда дыхание перехватило... Все разом изменилось 23 февраля 44-го. Когда мне цинично заявили: «Раз ты патриотка, помоги нам лишить тебя родины, родителей и даже жизни», пришлось, наконец, понять, что есть советская власть."
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Laysat Baysarova
1920 – 2005
Laysat Baysarova (1920-2005) was an Ingush communist party worker turned abrek who became a sniper against the NKVD after being asked to assist in the deportation and exile of her people. While hiding in the mountains of the Caucasus from 1944 to 1957, the period of her nation's exile, she targeted and killed multiple Chekists in revenge for their deportation of mountain peoples, having been previously trained in sharpshooting with the Komsomol before the decree declaring Ingush people official
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