Kazakhstan families search for clues about the 270,000 'missing soldiers' of the World War II Soviet Army
- Posted on June 15, 2025
- By Le Monde
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Kazakhstan families search for clues about the 270,000 'missing soldiers' of the World War II Soviet Army

Nearly a quarter of the one million Kazakhs conscripted into the Red Army during the 'Great Patriotic War,' the Russian term for World War II, went missing. Eighty years later, their descendants are getting organized to trace their whereabouts.