Balkar and Karachai nationalism is the national sentiment among the Balkars and Karachai. It generally manifests itself in: * The movement for the recognition of the 1944 deportations (where the Balkars and Karachai, along with the Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush and later Estonians, Latvians and Volga Germans were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan, with considerable portions of the nation massacred by Russian troops and historical documents burned in mass fires) as a genocide against the nation. * The movement to separate Kabardino-Balkaria into Kabardin and Balkar administrative units * Likewise, the movement to separate Karachay–Cherkessia into Karachay and Cherkess administrative units * The movement to unify Karachai and Balkar units into a single republic * The movement to unify the