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    The Kengir uprising was a prisoner rebellion that occurred in Kengir (Steplag), a Soviet MVD special camp for political prisoners, during May and June...
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  • in kind, collectivization and dekulakization. The May and June 1954 Kengir uprising was a rebellion by political prisoners. The 16–19 December 1986 Jeltoqsan...
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    division of the Gulag was set up adjacent to the village of Kengir, near the River Kengir in central Kazakhstan. It was mentioned in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's...
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  • Prison riot (redirect from Prison uprising)
    include prisoner-of-war camps. Norilsk uprising, May 1953 – strike Vorkuta uprising, July 1953 – 66 killed Kengir uprising, May 1954 – 37 killed (official Soviet...
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  • Dzhezkazgan, near the Kara-Kengir River, and held approximately 5,200 prisoners, was the scene of a notable prisoner uprising in the summer of 1954. After...
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    The Vorkuta Uprising was a major uprising of forced labor camp inmates at the Rechlag Gulag special labor camp in Vorkuta, Russian SFSR, USSR from 19...
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  • uprising, 1948 Nizhni Aturyakh camp, Berlag, uprising, 1949 Ekibastuz strike [ru], 1952 Norilsk uprising, 1953 Vorkuta uprising, 1953 Kengir uprising...
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    the highest number of fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings. Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees)...
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    "Battle of Mazar-i-Sharif") was a six-day military engagement following an uprising of prisoners of war who had been taken into custody by US-led coalition...
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  • technical prison camp system, camp rebellions and strikes, such as the Kengir uprising; the practice of continued internal exile following the completion...
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    News. Retrieved April 27, 2019. "Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising". Prison Legal News. Retrieved April 27, 2019. "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK...
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    The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the...
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  • Leopoldov prison uprising was the largest prison uprising in the former Czechoslovakia, which took place in 1990. The army was also deployed to suppress...
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  • London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines. 1954 – Beginning of the Kengir uprising in the Gulag. 1959 – The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned...
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    Cowra breakout 1946 Battle of Alcatraz 1953 Norilsk uprising 1953 Vorkuta uprising 1954 Kengir uprising 1963 Pulau Senang prison riots 1971 Attica Prison...
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    portal Human rights in the Soviet Union Kengir uprising List of massacres in the Soviet Union Vorkuta uprising (1953) Warning strike in Poland (1981) According...
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    Cowra breakout 1946 Battle of Alcatraz 1953 Norilsk uprising 1953 Vorkuta uprising 1954 Kengir uprising 1963 Pulau Senang prison riots 1971 Attica Prison...
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  • failed protests and strikes within the Gulags, especially that of the Kengir uprising, the leaders of the Soviet Union began to plan for the dissolution...
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    Ireland were decisively defeated. The incident was the first major convict uprising in Australian history to be suppressed under martial law. On 4 March 1804...
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    Corrections and former warden Felix) Rodriguez.” "…the future course of the uprising will frequently be aimless and wild, with shifting and uncertain leadership...
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  • Cowra breakout 1946 Battle of Alcatraz 1953 Norilsk uprising 1953 Vorkuta uprising 1954 Kengir uprising 1963 Pulau Senang prison riots 1971 Attica Prison...
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  • March 1953. Dolgun did not serve at Kengir, but at a camp nearby. He did, however, describe the Kengir uprising in his autobiography from witnesses'...
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  • Romanian. It suspended operations in 2012. May 16 – Beginning of the Kengir uprising in the Gulag. May 17 Brown v. Board of Education (347 US 483 1954):...
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    Janowska concentration camp (category Prison uprisings)
    their local auxiliaries murdered at least 6,000 Jews who had survived the uprising killings at Janowska, as well as Jews in other forced labor camps in Galicia...
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  • Russian). Retrieved 15 March 2024. Dunn, Morgan (15 May 2021). "How The Kengir Uprising Prisoners Fought Gulag Atrocities". allthatsinteresting.com. Retrieved...
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    Dr José Ismael Pedrosa, informed the local military police about the uprising. Colonel Ubiratan Guimarães of the PMESP mobilized the Shock Police battalions...
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  • height it held about 28,000 in 1950. Between May and June 1954, the Kengir uprising happened in Steplag. Detainee statistics by nationality: Alexander...
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  • The Badaber uprising (26–27 April 1985, Badaber, Pakistan) was an armed rebellion by Soviet and Afghan prisoners of war who were being held at the Badaber...
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    Cowra breakout 1946 Battle of Alcatraz 1953 Norilsk uprising 1953 Vorkuta uprising 1954 Kengir uprising 1963 Pulau Senang prison riots 1971 Attica Prison...
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    Cowra breakout 1946 Battle of Alcatraz 1953 Norilsk uprising 1953 Vorkuta uprising 1954 Kengir uprising 1963 Pulau Senang prison riots 1971 Attica Prison...
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