Wagons departed, pulling each other – Kalmyk Collection

Описание: Vera Popova recalls the deportation of Kalmyks and performs her own song about it

VLACH ID-number: kalm1244RUV0023b

Description:
Vera Popova recalls how, during the Kalmyks' deportation, she ended up in the city of Chernogorsk, in the Khakass Autonomous Region. From there, she and other young Kalmyks were sent to work at a quarry. Together, they lived in a single barrack, where Vera composed a song about the deportation of the Kalmyks, for which she was arrested on 11 September 1946 and sentenced to seven years of hard labour. Popova performs her song, in which she describes how Kalmyks, mostly old people and children, were sent to Siberia in overcrowded rail wagons. After arriving in Khakassia, they were forced to work in a stone quarry, where "they lost their health and lives".

Cite as:
Čirɪldä́d ɣarsýn vagonmúd – Wagons departed, pulling each other; performer: Vera Popova, camera/ interview: Ioana Aminian, interview assistant: Nina Burataeva, transcription/ translation/ editor: Chingis Azydov, retrieved from www.oeaw.ac.at/VLACH, ID-number: kalm1244RUV0023b.

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