Interview with Margaret Comer on Soviet Repression in Kazakhstan

We encourage you to listen to the interview with Margaret Comer as part of the Жиза podcast series. The episode is titled Огромная часть истории советских репрессий - в Казахстане/Маргарет Комер/ исследовательница наследия (A huge part of the history of Soviet repression is in Kazakhstan/Margaret Comer/ heritage researcher).

This episode is about how the legacy of mass repressions influences our behavior today, or rather how it can influence. About why today the GULAG archives are limited or closed altogether. About why it is increasingly difficult to talk about the Holocaust in today's geopolitical situation and about whether it is necessary to publish the files of the repressed.

Margaret Comer is a Research Assistant on the project “Memories of Soviet Repressions in Post-Multi-Colonial Post-Soviet Spaces”, funded by Poland’s National Science Centre (Grant no. 2020/39/B/HS6/02809) and based at the University of Warsaw.