Evacuation and Repression: The Spaniards’ Life in Kazakhstan
Evacuación y represión: la vida de los españoles en Kazajistán
Kokebayeva G. Zakarya R.
3 October 2022UPV/EHU Press
Historia Contemporanea
2022#2022Issue 70919 - 950 pp.
When the war erupted between the USSR and Germany, the emigrants who were in the European part of the USSR were evacuated to the eastern republics, including Kazakhstan along with some children from children’s homes. The Spaniards repressed by the Soviet government and the soldiers-prisoners of the “Blue Division” were kept in the Kazakh camps. This paper examines the Spanish emigrants’ life and activities in Kazakhstan, their resettlement from Kazakhstan to the Crimea, and the problem of Spanish emigrants’ conscription in the Soviet Army. Also, the fate of repressed Spaniards who were sent to correctional labor camps in the Karaganda region has been traced.
Civil war , Karlag , MOPR , repressions in the USSR , Spanish emigrants , Spanish Republicans
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Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
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