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00:30Their policy of collective farms forced nomadic Kazakhs to give up their lifestyle and surrender their livestock
00:35Когда людей согнали в колхозы, огромнейшие стада будут сконцентрированы в одном месте
00:40То есть будут находиться на одном месте без передвижения
00:43Это приводило к тому, что начинался падеж от бескормицы
00:46The Red Army slaughtered the other half of cattle, unable to feed it
00:5040 миллионов turned to 5
00:52For a nation whose primary source of food was cattle, this meant a gruesome hungry death
00:58As a result, out of 6 million Kazakhs, approximately 2 million died of starvation
01:03And 600,000 more relocated to China, Iran and Afghanistan, hoping to avoid a similar fate
01:11Kazakh intelligentsia criticized the government for excessive policies that led to famine and mass deaths
01:17For this outright rebellion, they were arrested, exiled and executed
01:22This is Карлак, one of the largest labor camps in the USSR
01:26Located in the middle of the Kazakh steppe
01:29Its vast territory was once compared to the size of France
01:32From 1931 till 1959, about a million people passed through the camp
01:37For others, the outcome was even more immediate
01:39They were executed
01:41Among them was Rahat Amonbaev's grandfather, Amonbaev Kaspakbaev
01:45In October 1937, just during the evening, the NKVD members came to the NKVD
01:52They called him and took him
01:55This was an era of big terror
01:57According to the documents, which Rahat was able to get only after the collapse of the Soviet Union
02:02Amonbaev was accused of being a fascist, a Trotskyist and helping suspected dissidents
02:31After spending their eight years enduring hardship and abuse, she took her kids from their uncle and moved away
02:37To avoid discrimination and harassment
02:44One of the prominent figures who faced such a fate was Seken Sifulin
02:48A Kazakh poet, a promoter of the Kazakh language
02:51And once the head of the Kazakh government
02:54He was championing Kazakh identity and attributes
02:57For which he was accused of being a nationalist and an anti-Soviet
03:01The irony was that he was a revolutionary and a Bolshevik
03:05It was on November 24th of September 24th
03:08We came after him, the two came to the house
03:11The two came to the house
03:13And they said
03:14You are Seken Sifulin?
03:16Yes, we will show you the paper
03:19And Seken Sifulin immediately
03:21It was red and then it was red.
03:24Sifulin's little son died on a train when he and his mother were deported
03:28His father and older brother were also executed
03:31His younger brother survived by a miracle
03:34From 1937 till 1957, the Sifulin family lived under the label of the enemy of the people
03:54No university wanted to admit an enemy of the people
03:57When she finally got admitted to the Zoological Institute, someone denounced her
04:01And she had to finish her education in secret
04:04Her father, Seken's little brother, couldn't hold a job for 20 years
04:08Each time someone found out he was an enemy of the people and he was fired
04:15When Stalin died in 1953, many people were amnestied and rehabilitated
04:19There was a test to prove the methods that were illegal for my father's arrest
04:27He was completely rehabilitated
04:29Both Sifulin and Kaspakpaev were rehabilitated in 1957
04:33In 1993, independent Kazakhstan adopted a law on rehabilitation of victims of political repressions
04:39Restoring their good names and compensating the families
04:42Kazakhstan is continuing to examine archival documents of the Soviet era
04:47Just three years ago, a special commission rehabilitated 300,000 people
04:51The country makes every effort to commemorate those who fell victim to the Red Terror
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