Biography
Qadir Shamdin Abdullah was born in 1926 in Goratu district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. He died in
The struggle
On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Kotol (Qtur) and the Battle of Mako Bridge crossed.
After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in Nakhchevan, Azerbaijan, for forty days in an open community surrounded by barbed wire by a group of soldiers They were guarded and treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing and transportation. They were later divided into Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh and Kalbajar regions of Azerbaijan by the decision of the Soviet government. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan They have received military training. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish for four hours a day by some of their educated comrades.
After Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment of Barzani's comrades, it was decided to move the military camp from Azerbaijan to the community of Chirchuk near Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on August 29, 1948, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the farms of the kolkhozes (land that people rented from the government and then paid back to the government).
After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani talked about the suffering of his comrades and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades In November 1951, Shamdin Abdullah moved to Vrevisky, Soviet Union.
In 1958, the Iraqi Republic was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, Qadir Shamdin Abdullah returned to Kurdistan with his comrades on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic.
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