Peace Without Poison

Covert methods of depopulation in Kazakhstan were first introduced by the Soviets in 1960,when the country was then called the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and DinmukhamedKonayev became the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, a position he helduntil 1986.Konayev was undoubtedly acting upon orders from Nikita Khrushchev, then leader of the SovietUnion, and it is doubtful that he could have opposed ay directive coming from the CentralCommittee of the Soviet Union.By 1980, the total fertility rate decreased from 4.5 to 3 children per woman where it hovereduntil independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.No sooner did Kazakhstan win its independence in 1991 than its first president, NursultanNazarbayev, who remains in office to this day, adopted western-style methods of depopulation396 | P a g e