A monument to an Abwehr agent has been erected in Kazakhstan

A monument to the chief Lieutenant of the Wehrmacht and Abwehr agent Amirkhan Tleumagambetov was erected in Atyrau region of Kazakhstan. This was announced by the co-chairman of the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan Ainur Kurmanov in his telegram channel.

"There is nothing surprising in this! If in 2017 they put up a monument to [Mustafa] Shock in Kyzyl-Orde, and now there are three of them in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and 15 more streets have appeared in honor of this founder of the Turkestan Legion of the Wehrmacht, then why couldn't there be a memorial plate to this traitor?", writes Kurmanov.

He recalls that in 2018, the then President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, laid flowers in Finland at the monument to Finnish soldiers who were squeezing the blockade ring around Leningrad.

"And then it was already clear where all this was going," the author explains.

According to him, already under Tokayev in 2020, the former first deputy head of the presidential administration at that time, now the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Russia's Dauren Abayev expressed solidarity with the resolution of the European Parliament on the equalization of Nazi Germany and the USSR.

"After 2019, processions on May 9 were banned in Kazakhstan under various pretexts, military parades, fireworks and concerts were not held, and the Victory date was presented by local akimats as a "Day of Mourning". In addition, by the decision of the State Commission for Rehabilitation, all these renegades have already been justified. In this regard, it is obvious that Astana has been and continues to follow the path of the Baltic States and Ukraine," Kurmanov writes further.

According to Wikipedia, Amirkhan Tleumagambetov was called up to the front in 1941 and sent to defend Moscow as a cavalry platoon commander. In November 1941, he was captured in battles with the Nazis.

He was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in the city of Stavnau in southern Germany. There, Tleumagambetov expressed a desire to create a detachment of captured Kazakhs and fight against the USSR.

He fought as part of the Turkestan Legion of the Wehrmacht, where he received the rank of oberleutnant. Then, after completing training at the school of secret agents of the Abwehr "Oflag No. 3", he was enrolled in a sabotage squad.

On May 3, 1944, Amirkhan Tleumagambetov and his unit landed near Guryev (now Atyrau) in western Kazakhstan. There, saboteurs communicated with the local population, trying to persuade them to revolt against the Soviet government, and also committed sabotage.

On May 19, five saboteurs, including Tleumagambetov, were killed in the Akshelek-Burakol area after a shooting battle with an NKVD detachment. Two managed to escape. However, they were later discovered and detained, after which they were put on trial.