On that event, a world convention is being organized within the museum, scientists from Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Lithuania will give shows, Henrikas Jatautis, a participant within the rebellion, will share his recollections.
In accordance with the report of the Genocide and Resistance Analysis Heart of the Lithuanian inhabitants, within the steppes of Kazakhstan, in one of many particular camps of the gulag (pressured labor camp system of the Soviet Union) no. 4, Steplage, imprisoned in 1954 for over 20 thousand. political prisoners from all around the Soviet Union. Most – regarding 9 thousand. – the prisoners consisted of Ukrainians and Lithuanians. About 3 thousand of the latter had been imprisoned.
They had been imprisoned in very strict and grueling circumstances, constructed town of Dzhezkazgan, labored laborious mining jobs in copper ore mines and brickyards.
The rebellion started on Might 16, 1954, when felony prisoners delivered to the Steplag Kengyro camp level tore down the fence separating the camp factors and commenced to hurry into the ladies’s space. Then political prisoners attacked the ladies to defend them.
The guards began capturing on the prisoners breaking into the ladies’s space, 18 prisoners had been killed and 70 had been injured. Two Lithuanians – Povilas Seikalis and Kazimieras Šiugždinis – had been killed.
In protest in opposition to such conduct, the prisoners refused to go to work and demanded a fee from Moscow to analyze the case of using firearms in opposition to the prisoners.
The insurrectionary committee demanded the abolition of the particular regime of the camp, the investigation of unlawful circumstances of using firearms in opposition to prisoners, the discount of the sentence of prisoners sentenced to 25 years within the camp, the discharge of their households from exile, the shortening of the working day to eight hours, and the fee of the identical wage as freelancers. workers, evaluation the accounting system, restrict the camp administration’s capacity to impose disciplinary penalties.
The fee that got here from Moscow agreed to abolish the particular regime, evaluation the accounting system, and shorten the working day. This didn’t fulfill the prisoners. The insurrectionary committee organized the administration of the camp and preparations for a attainable assault, the manufacturing of weapons started, a radio unit was constructed, and an electrical generator was made.
For 42 days, Kengyro prisoners had self-government, they didn’t enable representatives of the administration into the camp territory.
In solidarity with them, one other level of the Steplag camp – Džezkazgan-Rudniks – introduced a strike in June.
On the evening of June 25 to 26, 1954, 5 T-34 tanks, three fireplace engines, 1,600 troopers, and 98 service canine entered the Kengyro camp space. The insurrection was put down.
In accordance with official knowledge, 37 prisoners had been killed then, 9 extra died of accidents, and 106 individuals had been injured. Lithuanians Balys Leipus, Stasys Daraškevičius, Kazys Rindeika, Vytautas Markevičius had been killed. Vlada Miliūtė fell underneath the tracks of the tank, she was saved by the camp docs.
Members of the rebellion committee had been arrested and tried.
In accordance with historians, this rebellion shook the gulag system to its foundations. After the rebellion, particular camps had been abolished, the jail regime was relaxed, working and jail circumstances had been improved. The information of political prisoners have additionally been reviewed.
In 1956, mass launch of political prisoners from the camp started.
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