Large-scale work is being done in the country to rehabilitate victims of repression, which let thousands of citizens of Kazakhstan redeem their good name.
On May 31, President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev addressed the people of Kazakhstan on the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression and Famine. The Address was posted on the website of the President of Kazakhstan.
The leader of the country ‘revived’ memories of the mournful period of history, when the lives of millions of citizens of the country of Soviets were turned upside down in the first half of the 20th century. More than 100,000 people in Kazakhstan were wrongfully convicted, and 25,000 of them received a death sentence.
The President said there were 11 correctional labour zones on the territory of Kazakhstan. Of them, KARLAG and ALZHIR are most tragically famous. Through the efforts of the first president Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev, the memorial complexes were built on these sites so that the contemporaries would know about the horror of the totalitarian regime.
Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev noted that many nations had faced persecution. Kazakhstan sheltered 5 million forced resettlers, for whom that land became a new homeland. At that cruel time, the nation suffered severely from famine, which had a very destructive impact on its gene pool. However, the people, having gone through the terrifying ordeal, got stronger in spirit and united, the President emphasised.
The leader of Kazakhstan noted that large-scale work to rehabilitate victims of repression started in the independent country, which let thousands of citizens of Kazakhstan redeem their good name decades later.