Hansultan Dachiev

Khansultan Chapayevich Dachiev was a Chechen cavalry soldier of the Red Army during World War II. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 January 1944 but later exiled to Jalal-Abad solely on the grounds of his Chechen ethnicity; after writing a letter to Lavrentiy Beria requesting the rehabilitation of the Chechen people he was arrested on manufactured charges of embezzlement and sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment. After his arrest he was stripped of his military medals and his Hero of the Soviet Union title was revoked. He was eventually released, and in 1985 he was granted clemency and his title was reinstated by Mikhail Gorbachev.