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World Service,15 Jun 1999,4 mins

Forcible Exile to Kazakhstan

My Century

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During 1936 - 1956 Stalin exiled by force 3.5 million people who he regarded as traitors. Nikolai Fomich Tiftikhidis was a 21 year old musician when the KGB arrived at his house in Baku in Azerbaijan to deport him to Kazakhstan. His crime was to be Greek.

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