The Attitude of the Kazakh Community Towards Those Deported from Ajara in 1951–1952

Abstract

The article is devoted to the relationship between the Kazakh community and citizens deported from Ajara in 1951-1952, who found themselves in Kazakhstan as a result of forced resettlement. Many of them remained to live in Kazakhstan, side by side with their Kazakh neighbors, who saved them during the most severe trials of deportation. For them, deportation became a traumatic experience that shaped a collective trauma narrative, as evidenced by the recollections (interviews) of respondents - eyewitnesses to the events - whose narratives reflect real events preserved in collective memory. The tragedy of deportation ultimately became a starting point for the formation of a multinational Kazakh society.