Khasan Israilov
| Khasan Israilov | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Israil Khant Hasan (Исраил КIант Хьасан) |
| Born | 1910 Galanchozh, Russian Empire |
| Died | December 29, 1944 (aged 33–34) |
| Occupation | Guerrilla fighter, journalist, poet |
Khasan Israilov (Chechen: Israil Khant Hasan/Исраил КIант Хьасан; Russian: Хасан Исраилов; 1910 - December 29, 1944) was a Chechen nationalist, guerrilla fighter, journalist, and poet who led a Chechen and Ingush resistance and rebellion against the Soviet Union from 1940 until his death in 1944. Israilov is regarded as the most influential Chechen resistance leaders during World War II, and he is considered by many Chechens to be a national hero. He was infamous to the Soviets, and to many Russians, for his 1940-1944 uprising, which many Russians connected to an abortive German plot to undermine Soviet control over the North Caucasus (in reality, however, relations between Israilov's Chechen partisans and the Germans were tense at best, hostile at worst). His name is also sometimes translitrated to Latin alphabet as Hassan Izrailov.
Israilov was born in 1910 in the village of Galanchozh, Chechnya, as the youngest of six brothers. He finished secondary school in Rostov in 1929, generally excelling in most subjects. He joined Komsomol, the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1919. Graduating from a communist secondary school in Rostov-on-Don in 1929, Israilov entered the ranks of the Communist Party, and in 1933 he was sent to Moscow's Communist University of the Toilers of the East.
As a student Israilov wrote plays and poetry, and he became a correspondent for the Moscow newspaper Krestianskaia Gazeta (Farmer's Newspaper). A couple of his articles attacked the Soviet policy in the Checheno-Ingushetia, which he described as "plundering Chechnya by the Party leadership". Although he instantly became popular with his peers, the Soviet leadership arrested him swiftly at the age of 19, on charges of "counterrevolutionary slander", and was sentenced to ten years in prison after he had written an editorial accusing certain Party officials of "looting and corruption", but after two years Israilov was released, rehabilitated, and allowed to return to his university after several of the Party members Israilov had accused were charged with corruption.
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