FATES AND DESTINIES: OR THE TOREKHANOV BROTHERS

Abstract

The article tells the story of a simple school teacher who was caught in the crossfire of mass political repressions in our country. The author exposes the gross violations of the natural rights of people who were subjected to mass political persecution. While preparing an article about the fate of a simple teacher of a rural school during the period of mass political repressions in Kazakhstan, the author talks about the events that took place in Turkestan. He collected information from local historians, old -timers, materials about the famine that fell upon ou r country one after another, about the Suzak uprising and mass political repressions. Interviews descendants of WWII veterans and provides valuable information. A native of the Sozak district of the Turkestan region, Zh. Zhenis shared historically signific ant documents from the family archive about the fate of war veteran Tursyn Torekhanov, who was close to his family. In addition, Konysbay Tursynovich, the son of Tursyn Torekhanov and Tursyn's younger brother, are also veterans of World War II. Myrzakhmet Zhylysbaev and his nephew, poet and journalist Maksat Kargabay, provided materials -memories about veteran journalist O. Kyrgyzbaev, which allowed us to delve deeper into his fate.