May 31 - Memorial Day for Victims of Political Repression and Famine

Every year, since 1997, Kazakhstan has celebrated the Day of Remembrance of the victims of one of the most tragic pages in the history of Kazakhstan – mass political repression and horrific famine that caused the death of millions of people.

Over the years of repression, more than 5 million people were exiled to camps established on the territory of Kazakhstan.

In the republic itself, in the period from 1921 to 1954, 100 thousand people were convicted, and 25 thousand of them were sentenced to capital punishment - execution.

For 33 years from 1920 to 1953, about 110 thousand people were subjected to political repression, about 18 percent of the entire Kazakh party organization were declared enemies of the people.

At the peak of the scale of repression in 1937 in Kazakhstan, the number of arrested reached 105 thousand people, of which about 22 thousand were sentenced to death.