40 days of Kengir
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The Kengir uprising is an uprising of prisoners of the Steppe camp (Steplag) in the Kengir camp near Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan) May 16 - June 26, 1954. A year after the Norilsk uprising, in the spring of 1954, in the 3rd camp department of Steplag (the village of Dzhezkazgan in Karaganda region) for 40 days, more than 5 thousand political prisoners took power in the camp into their own hands. On the 40th day, the uprising was suppressed by the use of military force, including tanks, and, according to testimonies of participants in the events, hundreds of people were killed.
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- Name of the Author
- Александр Солженицын Исаевич
- Language
- Russian
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The Kengir uprising is an uprising of prisoners of the Steppe camp (Steplag) in the Kengir camp near Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan) May 16 - June 26, 1954. A year ...