Геноцид Казаков (Макаш Татимов - часть 2)

About 70 kilometers west of Kazakhstan’s commercial capital, Almaty, the village is dissected by a highway. Farmers work in the fields growing mainly melons and wheat. But what lies underground in Samsy is a nearly forgotten page in Kazakh history. Dotting the fields there are scores of mounds, a little more than a meter high. Buried beneath these mounds are the unnamed dead from a horrific man-made famine in the early 1930s, which killed at least 1 million Kazakhs.
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