Today is the Day of the beginning of the Crimean Tatars deportation
The ethnic cleansing destroyed up to 46% of this nation. Many people died on the way to the exile and in the first years after the exile. The occupying Soviet authorities did not even list the Crimean Tatars in the population census. It is as if they never existed. All cities and villages of the Crimea were renamed so that they would not have Crimean Tatar names. This was genocide. Conscious and planned. The Crimean Tatars were able to start returning home only in 1989, with the beginning of the collapse of the USSR.
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