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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">169</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Historical choice of the Kalmyk people in the Great Patriotic War</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Historical choice of the Kalmyk people in the Great Patriotic War</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Shein</surname><given-names>Oleg V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Shein</surname><given-names>Oleg V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>kaspregion@inbox.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff219" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff219"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan Region Duma</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan Region Duma</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2013</year></pub-date><issue>3</issue><fpage>33</fpage><lpage>41</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/3/article/169">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/3/article/169</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/3(36)/33-41.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/3(36)/33-41.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The article discusses the problem of Kalmyk people`s deportation. In Soviet historiographies this subject was a little studied. The Soviet authorities didn’t allow extensive discussion on this problem. The reasons of the collaboration in the Great Patriotic War period weren’t studied also. After 1991 many researches on this problem began printed, many of its has provocative character. Authors didn’t study the collaboration reasons, they both condemned or supported its. It results its come to interethnic intensity and the international conflicts. The author considers that the reasons of the collaboration were political, social-economic, national and religions factors. In spite of the Soviet authorities adopted a unreasoned policy, many of the Kalmyk people gave his life as a sacrifice for his country.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article discusses the problem of Kalmyk people`s deportation. In Soviet historiographies this subject was a little studied. The Soviet authorities didn’t allow extensive discussion on this problem. The reasons of the collaboration in the Great Patriotic War period weren’t studied also. After 1991 many researches on this problem began printed, many of its has provocative character. Authors didn’t study the collaboration reasons, they both condemned or supported its. It results its come to interethnic intensity and the international conflicts. The author considers that the reasons of the collaboration were political, social-economic, national and religions factors. In spite of the Soviet authorities adopted a unreasoned policy, many of the Kalmyk people gave his life as a sacrifice for his country.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>deportation</kwd><kwd>collaboration</kwd><kwd>German-fascist occupancy</kwd><kwd>political repression</kwd><kwd>the Great Patriotic War</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>deportation</kwd><kwd>collaboration</kwd><kwd>German-fascist occupancy</kwd><kwd>political repression</kwd><kwd>the Great Patriotic War</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>