“When they rehabilitated us, they unexpectedly played a Kalmyk song over the radio. Kalmyks heard it and cried. As long as one hears the Kalmyk language, the Kalmyks live!” Ochirov is chairperson of the Union of Repressed Peoples of Kalmykia, and founder of a museum that has become part of the memorial complex “Exodus and Return.”
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