What does Kazakhstan belong to?
Do you have a child who has a classmate whose family is originally from Kazakhstan? Then you might be interested in the history and culture of this vast country. Where is the country actually located, is it a sovereign state or what does the country belong to?
What the land belongs to
Do you know what Kazakhstan belongs to today? If not, that's by no means a shame. The huge land on the Caspian Sea is rather unknown to many Germans. In the course of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which shortly followed the reunification of Germany, Kazakhstan declared itself on 16. December 1991 and has been a sovereign state ever since.
- The country lies on the Caspian Sea and is enclosed by the vast empires of China in the southeast and Russia in the north. Other neighboring countries in the south are Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
- The country was always of great strategic importance, especially in times of war, as the region has huge deposits of mineral resources (crude oil, natural gas, hard coal, gold, iron ore).
- In addition to the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan has several other interesting lakes and rivers. The Aral Sea, which is threatened with drying out, will probably look familiar to you. The drying up of the lake was caused by the years of draining gigantic amounts of water Uzbekistan pushed ahead with the precious commodity for irrigating their cotton plantations used.
- As a result, this led to dramatic damage to the ecosystem around the lake. Many fishermen lost their jobs, as the huge ship cemeteries many kilometers away from today's shore still tell of this today.
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The history of Kazakhstan
- Originally Germans settled in Russia and Kazakhstan voluntarily but also by force. During the Second World War, for example, many Germans (e. B. Communists) fled the country because it was no longer safe for them there after Hitler came to power and other parties were banned.
- After the Second World War, prisoners of war were taken to labor camps in Siberia by the Red Army.
- Some of the settlements of German farmers go back to a manifesto of Catherine the Great from 1763, in which she allowed German settlers to settle in the Volga region.
- After the Iron Curtain fell and Kazakhstan declared its independence and thus no longer belonged to Russia, many Russian Germans gradually came to Germany as repatriates Germany return.
The example of the Russian Germans or Spätaussiedler shows what humans are capable of when they only set a specific goal. Even the greatest cultural differences and the most difficult language barriers can be overcome if one believes in a good future.
