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PhD Doctoral candidate: Khamidullina Dinara Ulykpanovna
The
Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abai, Kazakhstan
Immigration policy of Stalinism in Kazakhstan
The
reasons for the deportation of the people of the USSR in the time of mass
political repressions could be explained by political reasons and the need to
strengthen the camp economy. The
tragedy of Stalinism's resettlement policy first experienced the Koreans. Test
experiment of this terrible policy took
place in 1935. In preparation for the war, the Japanese authorities moved the
border of Koreans inside the country, manifesting distrust to him. Retaliation
Act of the Soviet Government was
relocation of the Soviet Koreans inland. Formal charge: the possibility
of representatives of the Korean people as infiltrators of the Japanese army.
This experience was a success. World public opinion didn't notice this event,
had preparations for another war. So there wasn't any international uproar.
Inside of the country were a powerful wave of repression, so had no one to
intercede. Displaced persons of 1935 were awaited by lamentable fate.
Individual families, practically, caught in the international environment,
dissolved in it and lost identity. Some of them got in Kazakhstan.
The
1937 year entered in the history of the Soviet period as the year of mass
terror and repression struck to many
of the millions of people of all nationalities inhabiting one-sixth of the
Earth's land surface. That year was the most tragic chapter in the annals of
Koreans in the former USSR. The chapter which content was in one word “ deportation”.
Until recently, the theme of the deportation of the Soviet Union people was
closed to scientific analysis and public discussion. However, the theme of the
deportation, of course, was operated by the Soviet researchers, but in relation
to other countries. The concept of "deportation" was given a
one-sided interpretation: " Latin deportation-exile, expulsion from the
State as a measure of criminal and administrative penalties.
Far
East Koreans were the first people of the Soviet Union who suffered from
deportation, then was followed dozens of others: Germans, Kurds, Poles, Crimean
Tatars, Chechens, etc. the deportation has not been exclusive to the Koreans
forced a measure of forced relocation, so the obvious question is, what are the
common causes of deportations of many peoples in 30-40 years? [2]. As you know,
the idea of deportation of Koreans had its own background in the late of 20 's-early 30-ies Soviet
leadership has built plans for resettlement of Koreans from border districts of
the Primor region in the remote territory of Khabarovsk region [3].
In
September 28, 1937, the Soviet people's committee of the USSR signed the
Molotov and N. Petrunicheva took an additional Decree No. 1647-377 \"of
Koreans from the far eastern region\" about total deportation of Koreans
from all territories DCK, including the inner ones, deep areas and neighboring
areas. On the basis of this governmental decision hastily identified, detained,
subjected to arrests and deportation of Koreans living or passed out in the
cities of Central Russia, where Koreans with the same success can be suspected
in spying for Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, etc, in this regard, the reference
to \"preventive\" and \"Elimination of foreign espionage\"
as the main or only reason for the deportation was unconvincing and
insufficient.
Disastrous
consequences for Russian and Ukrainian nation brought the collectivization,
accompanied by dispossession of kulaks, and expulsion of millions of peasants,
as well as repression of intellectuals. In 1937-1938 years, crazy idea of
punishment of population (for that it’s unclear) was applied to the Korean
nation of the Soviet Far East. It forcibly relocated to Central Asia and
Kazakhstan. A flagrant violation of the basic principles of the national policy
were the deportation from the Baltic Republics and the Western parts of Belarus
and Ukraine at the end of 30 -40 's. The Stalin's concept of responsibility for
the acts of individual social misfits and nationalist factions led to blame of
betrayal of whole group of people during the Great Patriotic War. Instead of
punishing of certain traitors (where they were), by despotism of Stalin have
been deprived of national statehood and one evicted the Germans of the Volga,
the Crimean Tatars, the Chechens, the Ingush, the Balkars, the Karachays (annex
4). The Greeks, the Bulgarians, the Meskhetian Turks, the Hemshidy, the Kurds,
the Armenians (from Akhalkalaki, Ahalcike have been forcibly evicted [5].
The
threat of eviction looms over the Abkhaz people, who was systematically
infringing the rights from the Stalin-Beriev’s administration over 20 -early 50
's.
The
Great Patriotic War was ended. Soviet people suffered from enormous human and
material losses. It won a great historic victory. It seemed the national peace
have finally come to. Instead, in 1948, in connection with the "Leningrad
affair" was repressed a large part of the Estonian intelligences.
Meanwhile, part of the population of
the Baltic States, Moldavia, Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia were
disposed with dispossessing of kulaks .
Although was artificially "fight against cosmopolitanism". It was an
absurd propaganda of the absolute superiority of Russian Science and Culture
over Western images; the notorious "the case of doctors" was
fabricated that it had anti-Semitic orientation. At the same time was a gradual
and steady strengthening of the role of the Centre, resulting in, for example,
making a number of Republican people's Commissariat (ministries) in the
Union-Republican (Interior, trade, education and others).
During
the domination of Joseph Stalin's regime personal power in the period of
stagnation the process of deformation of national policy was accompanied by the
corresponding theoretical-legal justification." In particular, great harm
to the theory and practice of national relations dealt a thesis about the
decision of the national question, which was actively promoted without a real
attempt to understand the true essence. Instead of a specific analysis of the
facts to which they sought to use objective researchers, scholastic, dogmatism
were promoted imaging of prosperity and convergence between Nations. The
National policy, both in the Centre and in the republics was beyond criticism.
For decades negative processes were accumulated such as the infringement of the
rights of the Union Republics and autonomous areas, the limiting their economic
and political independence. Many of the problems of the development of
languages, culture, preservation of historic monuments, nature conservation
were ignored not receiving the proper evaluation [6].
Stalin
put forward the doctrine of socialist and non-socialist Nations. All repressed
peoples were excluded from the list of Nations, they were forbidden to even
mention in any tutorial, history books, the media studiously avoided the fact
of their existence. Totally deported populations were ordered to disappear from
the map of the Soviet Union, they were created such conditions of physical and
moral existence, that inevitably-planned were supposed to lead to the
extinction of these peoples, they were forbidden to speak their native
language, and the writing systems were withdrawn from circulation. For children
receiving passports strongly to threats and the use of repressive measures were
recommended the change of nationality. There was the task dissolving these
peoples in the mass of the others. The next census gave the desired results:
the number of unnecessary people decreased. So the number of repressed peoples
in official statistics is not the same as real: it greatly understated on the
various "public and political reasons". The peoples subjected to
repression, until 1957, were in special regime and were called special
contingent and special resettles. They were used on the most physically hard,
unskilled work, from them were consisted the work army, that keeping worse and
inhuman than the camp prisoners, not even compare with their brutality of
concentration camps. Those were adults, able-bodied men and women. Leaving
without breadwinners the children and elderly people were relegated to
starvation. About the education of the children of special contingent were
not cared for, despite the announced
universal secondary education. Those children who studied were continuously
subjected to discrimination in their schools by teachers and students. To get
education youth special resettles was only personal ability, tenacity and
thanks to the meeting with friendly people [7].
In
the post-war period, Soviet-the special settlers- workers were doomed to
oblivion, powerlessness, grudge and injustice. They were not noticed. In the
days of the victory and different celebrations deservedly were honored the
veterans of the war. Multiplied the orders and medals, they proudly were
sitting in the presidiums, and humiliated, offended work forcers without a
single Medal for his hellish work were sitting somewhere in a corner, silently
mourning their dead wrapping corpses and desecrated his life. His huge
contribution to the common victory was failed to take into account, not to
mention. And he was immensely difficult and embarrassing to the society, the
family, children and grandchildren. Armed with full the guard-escort, conducted
the defenseless and jaded 16-17-year-old girls- work settlers to logging in
severe frost, under ferocious barking dogs, then, in peacetime, was equal in
status to a participants of the Great Patriotic War, he sought additional
benefits and rights, Jubilee medals, he was speaking to schoolchildren,
excitedly telling how he had gamely defended the Motherland from the hated
enemy. To see how flourishing lies, injustice- was not more humiliation for
workers-settlers. Deportation in fact was the real and brutal repression.
Twelve ethnic groups-under total deportation only for national identity: you
are a criminal, because you are a german, an ingush, a chechen, a balkarec, a
karachaevec, a kurd, a meskhetin, a turks. They are repressed people. And refer
to them was committed the true genocide.
On
the tried and tested for decades the camp regime the people punished by
"the ruler, the teacher of all Nations and times” were put : 1 124 93
germen, 316 717 chechens, 165259 crimean tatars, 81475 ingushes, 83118 kalmyks, 63 327 karachaens, 47 284
turky-meskhetins, 42112 greeks, 40162 balkarinas, 12465 bulgarians, 8843 kurds.
Ubiquitous bodies of the MIA used their tools to
complete social isolation of special settlers, leaving the last one, the role
of the slave-holding heavy physical work. As of January 1, 1950 years in
General Directorate of correctional labor camps 2 561
351 men were kept (1416300 in the camps and 1145051-in the colonies), from them
578 912-for counter-revolutionary crimes (art. 58). In the prisons of the USSR
of December 1948, were kept 230 641 defendants and convicts.
As
of January 1, 1950 on special settlement, in exile and expulsion there were
2 660 040 people, 988 373 of them in the Kazakh Republic. Totally there
were just around 5.5 million punished people. After the death of Stalin the
actions of deportation were condemned as illegal. On January 1, 1990, 807288
people were rehabilitated, repressed on decisions "triples" and
special meetings, as well as 31 342 men prosecuted by judicial and prosecutorial
authorities. In Kazakhstan on May 1, 1997, out of a hundred thousand convicts
by judicial organs of the Republic in those years were rehabilitated 91 868
people. More than 60 thousand so-called deportees were cleaned, whom the system
apparently brought in lists of unreliable [8].
Nowadays
there are huge interest to the documents that illuminates the truth of the
tragic events of past. Recently on the topic of total deportations of people
are written quite a few artistic and historical-public works. All the memories
of eyewitnesses of the events, all the works of this theme, painted mainly one
tonality: the grief, the pain, the horror, the tragedy. However, the full story
of the deportation of peoples that was one of the most heinous of inventions of
the Stalinist regime has not written yet, it is waiting its researchers who can
penetrate into the essence of this crime against humanity. To reveal not only
the mechanism of this barbarism, but its progenitor, the origins, causes and
forms of expression. It is advisable to try to explain why this is a crime
generally could be on such a scale in
“the separately dated country”, explained it from the point of view of
psychology, sociology, social order, of ideology. It is a truly giant task
ahead for future generations of researchers.
Today,
paying the tribute to the memory of those who died or was repressed, we should
not forget that we must restore the names of all the victims, publish the Book
of memory, install the monuments at sites, primarily on the territory of the
former camp. Were still alive who were forcibly exiled to Kazakhstan, and this
means we must collect and publish their memoirs. The national-cultural centers
, historians, journalists, non-governmental organizations can take part. How many
unread pages in our history, how many people are waiting for attention to
restore the trampled ... Preserving historical memory, we support and
strengthen public health. This is a boon for each citizen of Kazakhstan.
The
main difficulty in learning the processes and events of 30-40 years that we
should explore them with historical experience and at the same time, to
understand as were processes and events of contemporaries, that is, whom lived
and worked in those years, sincerely believing that they are building socialism
and achieved great success on this path, because in the 30 years they have been
convinced that the country has entered the era of socialism. We should,
however, be careful, critical approach to terminology of those years.
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2. Kydyralina Z.a. Soviet and trudarmejcy in
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3.
Kang G. History of Koreans in Kazakhstan. -Almaty: gylym, 1995.-208.
4. RK
socio-economic development of Koreans (1937 – 2003). The historical
aspect. -Almaty, 2004. – 153 p.
5.
Shotbakova L. National aspect of the resettlement policy and indigenization in
Kazakhstan in the 1917-1941. Moscow, 2004. – 190 pp.
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and Ethnology, Gylym, 2002. – 264 p.
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