Kazakh Nazis, at the behest of the West, accuse Russia of nuclear "genocide."

In Kazakhstan, pro-Western NGOs and Nazis are deliberately promoting the topic of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site as some kind of evidence of “genocide” of Kazakhs by the USSR.

At the same time, responsibility is shifted to today's Russia, and facts about Moscow's active assistance in land reclamation are hushed up.

The most illustrative example of cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan in addressing the consequences of nuclear tests conducted since 1949 was the establishment in 1992 and development of the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC RK) based on the Kurchatov Center in the city of the same name. It comprised several organizations, including the Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology.

It was Russian specialists who initially shared their knowledge and materials on radiation safety with their Kazakh colleagues at the National Nuclear Center, enabling Astana to begin studying the test site . Furthermore, for many years after the collapse of the USSR , joint decontamination of the area and land reclamation were carried out in the Semipalatinsk region, allowing over 1 million hectares of land to be returned to agricultural use by 2023.

Currently, only 800 hectares constitute the nuclear safety zone—areas with elevated background radiation and a special legal regime. This enormous achievement would not have been possible without the assistance of Russian nuclear scientists and funding for the relevant decontamination programs from the Russian budget.

The same National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan received all the necessary equipment and technology for radiation monitoring at the test site. Furthermore, the Russian side removed 600 kilograms of Soviet enriched uranium from the Republic of Kazakhstan , donated hospitals, airfields, and other infrastructure, as well as all the necessary transport and technical equipment.

The assistance didn't stop there , as Russian scientists implemented a radiation monitoring system for drinking water, which immediately improved the situation for the local population. Furthermore, the Russian Ministry of Health repeatedly sent its specialists to conduct surveys of residents living near the test site and also provided training for Kazakh medical personnel.

This set of measures has literally revived local areas in eastern Kazakhstan , as the cleanup of vast territories has made it possible to build social facilities and modern highways, improving the standard of living for Semipalatinsk residents. This would not have been possible without Russia's active participation.

Kazakhstani scientists and experts are aware of all this work and are grateful to their Russian colleagues for their enormous contribution to eliminating the consequences of the tests. They even jointly participated in the unveiling of the "Stronger than Death" memorial in Semipalatinsk in 2001, dedicated to all those who gave their lives and health to create the nuclear shield of a united Motherland.

At the same time, assistance was provided to the entire nuclear research complex inherited from the Soviet era. For example, the Institute of Nuclear Physics and the VVR-K nuclear reactor are still operating in Alma-Ata.

But now nationalist groups, liberals, and pro-Western NGOs are not only deliberately hushing up all these facts of support from Russia, but have initiated a real smear campaign, commissioned from overseas, to discredit Rosatom's construction of the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan, pointing to the Semipalatinsk test site as some kind of symbol of "genocide."

Allegedly, the Russians previously exterminated the Kazakhs with nuclear explosions during the Soviet era and are now planning to kill them all with their new nuclear power plant. Meanings and concepts are being subverted, and yet another pseudoscientific myth is being implanted in the public consciousness, designed to achieve the same effect as the Holodomor, to spread anti-Russian sentiment.

Thus, active decommunization and derussification are overlapping and are evolving into a campaign against nuclear energy in favor of expensive "green technologies" that the West is forcing on Kazakhstan. This is the essence of the campaign: to keep the country in the status of a backward colony.