 [27] Hence, the existing traditional roles were accentuated by his unparalleled skill and mastery of his craft.However, Dimayev's particular importance lies in the role he played during the Chechen deportation.On the 23rd of February 1944, the Chechens were suddenly woken at dawn, “[c]rammed into lorries,… brought to the railway stations and packed ‘like sardines’ into cargo and cattle cars".