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Koryo Saram(kk)
A significant group of Far Eastern Koreans were deported to Karatal district of the Taldykorgan region. Those who arrived later than other nations mastered the Korean language, and it became the language of interethnic communication along with Russian. In this film, four heroes of different nationalities who masterfully owned the mar Koreas.
Koryo Saram the Unreliable People(en)
Koryo Saram (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an "unreliable people" and enemies of the state. Through recently uncovered archival footage and new interviews, the film follows the deportees' history of integrating into the Soviet system while working under punishing conditions in Kazakhstan, a country which became a concentration camp of exiled people from throughout the Soviet Union.