Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Kengir uprising (1954)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Kengir”
May–Jun 1954 — Prisoners of the Kengir camp near Dzhezkazgan took over their camp for forty days and elected their own leadership. On 26 June tanks and troops stormed it; the official count was 37 dead, while prisoners’ accounts put the dead and wounded at 500 to 700.
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- Death of Stalin and de-Stalinisation (chapter 12 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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