Abstract
Political and ideological policies of post-socialist countries to rehabilitate peoples make it necessary to study the problem of deportation and repression of «punished» peoples and groups belonging to the European groups of Kazakhstan’s nationality. The process of deportation of peoples that took place in the Soviet Union during one of the hard and difficult periods of its history in the years after the Second World War. Soviet society could be divided in relation to the functioning regime of power, and in thissituation the authorities did everything so that its positions were not shaken, the measures applied toindividual peoples and groups of the population, speaking in open or hidden form against the regimewere tightened. With the beginning of the Second World War, the deportation took a new impetus ofSoviet geopolitics. Poles and Germans were the largest national group of all those subjected to forcedrelocation. In special echelons, they were promptly exported to 107 settlements of Siberia and northernKazakhstan. From the occupied territories of the Baltic states, the Poles and other undesirable elementsof Soviet power were evicted. Finns and Karelians living in Kazakhstan from the 1930s were deportedfrom the Leningrad Region in 1935–1940. The deportation policy was «explained» by a whole range ofreasons. For example, deported from the Baltic countries, the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus,Moldova to Kazakhstan, were considered «unreliable», they were given preventive measures (linked byconfessional factors, anti-reform measures, participation in gangs, belonging to the institutions of theoutdated system).Key words: Geopolitical deportation, diaspora, World War II, European peoples, historical memory,historical destinies.