A round table “Deportation: how not to erase the memory of history”, dedicated to the anniversary of the Stalinist deportation of Chechens, Ingushs, Crimean Tatars, Karachays and other nations was held at S.Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University.

On the basis of the department of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan at PSU, the invited guests were deputy chairman of the Chechen-Ingush ethnocultural association “Vaynakh” Shamil Dzhabrailov, Ibragim Yevloyev, and Taisun Altemirov, a witness of tragic event.

At the round table, the experts turned to the “dark spots of history”, the facts that were not customary to talk about, giving them a historical assessment.

Referring to the theme of the deportation of the twentieth century, the experts noted that it largely changed the history of not only individual nations, but also of Kazakhstan as a whole, which received thousands of forcibly resettled families.

Taisun Altemirov, referring to personal experience, told about all the difficulties and horrors of the deportation of the Ingush people to Central Asia.

At the end of the meeting, those present agreed that today Kazakhstan is a multicultural country, inhabited by representatives of many ethnic groups. An open inter-ethnic dialogue within a country allows finding a common solution to a wide variety of issues.