ALMATY – On May 31, Kazakhstan commemorates the victims of political repression and famine, honoring millions whose lives were shattered by political persecution, forced deportations, imprisonment and starvation.
The Karagandy Corrective Labor Camp. Photo credit: karlagmuseum.kz.
More than five million people were deported to labor camps across Kazakhstan during the Soviet era, transforming the country into one of the main centers of repression in the vast Gulag system.
Since 1997, Kazakhstan has observed the Day of Remembrance of Victims of
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