Implementation of Goloshchekin’s Policy in Kazakhstan

Abstract

We must not forget the victims of the hunger in the thirties of the XX century.
This period was the most terrible and unforgettable in the history of the country since it was a specially
planned policy to destroy the entire nation. In 1931-1933 out of six million population of the Republic 2.5
million people died from hunger. Because of poverty and hunger and constant tortures by the authorities 1
million people fled abroad. According to the scientists, because of hunger in the country in those years, the
development of the Kazakh people fell behind by 110 years. Constant lack of food and poverty continued
for several years in a row and finally killed the spirit of the people.
The First President of the country N.A. Nazarbayev said: “Had there been no hunger in those
terrible times, we would now be 45-50 million in number”. During the Soviet government it was forbidden
to talk about the terrible stage of the Kazakh history. However, after gaining independence of the country,
historians, political scientists and journalists began to actively study the most important secrets of the
Holodomor period and provided irrefutable facts that the famine was created by the hands of the authorities
and thus resumed the lost stage of history. According to the official data, the Kazakh people lost about 2.5
million people during the famine. However, in the following years, this figure might have been higher since
historians and young scientists still study the years of “white spots” in the country.