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A woman who claims to be the oldest person in the world has told of the brutality of her deportation into Soviet internal exile by tyrant Stalin during World War Two.
Koku Istambulova is 129 according to her Russian passport and pension papers which show her date of birth as 1 June 1889.
Now in lucid and deeply shocking testimony, she has spoken emotionally of the appalling day her native Chechen people were deported en masse by Stalin to the steppes of Kazakhstan almost 75 years ago and says the only happy day in all her years was when she entered a home built from her own hands back in her native land.
She married late when a man was chosen for her from another village.
'I didn't know him at all,' she said.
'But then I started to love him.
'What else could I do if I got married? I had to endure.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ime-people-deported-Stalin-World-War-Two.html
Koku Istambulova is 129 according to her Russian passport and pension papers which show her date of birth as 1 June 1889.
Now in lucid and deeply shocking testimony, she has spoken emotionally of the appalling day her native Chechen people were deported en masse by Stalin to the steppes of Kazakhstan almost 75 years ago and says the only happy day in all her years was when she entered a home built from her own hands back in her native land.
She married late when a man was chosen for her from another village.
'I didn't know him at all,' she said.
'But then I started to love him.
'What else could I do if I got married? I had to endure.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ime-people-deported-Stalin-World-War-Two.html
