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“Kazakhstan is a very unusual place, it can be very inhospitable (-40 in winter and +40 in the summer) and so most of the political prisoners were sent there, including my mother’s family from Georgia. Then a Nuclear polygon was sited the middle of our country, and the Aral Sea was drained almost entirely for agricultural and mining purposes. Despite this, there remains a remarkable harmony and resilience in the people there.”
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