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Created page with "== Background == The 1932-33 famine in Kazakhstan, known as the Goloshchekin Genocide or Asharshylyk, was a catastrophic event that resulted in the deaths of a significant portion of the Kazakh population. This famine occurred during the period of Soviet collectivization, a policy aimed at consolidating individual landholdings and labor into collective farms. The famine was part of a series of famines that affected the Soviet Union, including the more widely known Hol..."