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'''My Kazakhstan''' ({{Lang-kz|'''Менің Қазақстаным''', ''Meniñ Qazaqstanım'', مەنىڭ قازاقستانىم}}) is a Kazakh patriotic song written in 1956 in response to the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Virgin Lands]] program. There is debate over whether it was to celebrate the programme or to insist Soviet authorities should not turn Kazakhstan into Russia's corn belt.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Republic or Death! Travels in Search of National Anthems|last=Marshall|first=Alex|publisher=Random House Books|year=2015|isbn=9781847947413|location=London|pages=140-144|quote='Imagine if someone came and tried to break up London,' [Shamshi Kaldayakov's son] Mukhtar says, hitting a table in disgust. 'It's just like that. My father composed the song to stop them doing this. "Don't do it. This is our land."'|via=}}</ref> [[Shamshi Kaldayakov]] composed the music and [[Jumeken Najimedenov]] wrote the lyrics.

The [[Meniñ Qazaqstanım|current national anthem]] of [[Kazakhstan]] is based on this song.
==See also==
*[[Meniñ Qazaqstanım]]
*[[Anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]]
*[[Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (soundtrack)]] — Contains a faux national anthem which has been confused with the official one

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