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Since 2003 the Kazakh authorities have paid more than $30 million to the 20th century victims of the political repression, reports RIA Novosti referring to the Prime Minister Karim Massimov’s official page.

Every year on May 31 Kazakhstan honors the memory of the victims of political repressions that took place in the first half of the 20th century. Kazakh’s law stipulates that people  who were subjected to undue pressure in the USSR and later acquitted, receive a monetary compensation in the rate of three -fourths of the monthly estimate indicator for each month they spent in the camps.

The payments are made in the form of non-recurrent money allowance. The authorities have paid about 8.6 million dollars of non-recurrent money allowance and 23 million dollars of special government allowances. The special government allowances are granted to people who suffered political persecution, and have a disability, or are on pension , regardless of the other types of social payments . In Kazakhstan, 35 325 people receive those allowances.

The largest GULAG ( Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps )camps of the 20th century were in Kazakhstan  - Algeria , Steplag , Karlag . More than 5 million people were exiled to the Kazakh camps during the years of repression. In 1920-1954, 100 thousand people were convicted; 25 thousand were shot.

In 1930-1940 's various peoples were deported to Kazakhstan. In the fall of 1937, hundreds of thousands of Koreans, Turks, Iranians , Kurds, and Azeris were resettled in the country. Also many Germans, Greeks, Chechens, Ingush , Karachevs, Balkars , Crimean Tatars, and other nationalities were exiled to Kazakhstan during World War II. Their number is estimated at 1.2 million.

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