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The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (

ethnicities which were subjected to Stalin's policy of population transfer in the Soviet Union
.

Officially, the Soviet government presented the deportation as a policy of

plan to gain access to the Dardanelles and acquire territory in Turkey, where the Turkic ethnic kin of the Tatars lived, or remove minorities from the Soviet Union's border regions. This was despite the fact that twice as many Crimean Tatars served in the Red Army, 40,000, than had collaborated with the Axis powers, 20,000. Nearly 8,000 Crimean Tatars died during the deportation, and tens of thousands of other Crimean Tatars subsequently perished due to the harsh living conditions which they were forced to live under during their exile.[4]
The deportation of the Crimean Tatars resulted in the abandonment of 80,000 houses and it also resulted in the abandonment of 360,000 acres of land.

After it deported the Crimean Tatars, the Soviet government launched an intense

Supreme Council of the Soviet Union
declared that the deportations had been a crime, and it also declared that the ban on their return to Crimea was officially null and void.

By 2004, the number of Crimean Tatars who had returned to Crimea had increased their share of the peninsula's population to 12 percent. The Soviet authorities had not assisted them during their return to Crimea nor had it compensated them for the land which they had lost during the deportation. The

Russian Federation never provided reparations
, it never compensated those who lost their property during the deportation, and it never filed any legal proceedings against the perpetrators of the forced resettlement. The deportation and the subsequent assimilation efforts in Asia are crucial events in the history of the Crimean Tatars. Between 2015 and 2019, the deportation was formally recognised as a genocide by Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Canada.

Background

Main article: History of Crimea
Crimea highlighted on a map of the Black Sea

The

Ozbeg Khan of the Golden Horde. It was the longest surviving state of the Golden Horde.[11] They often engaged in conflicts with Moscow—from 1468 until the 17th century, Crimean Tatars fought several wars with Tsardom of Russia. Thus, after the establishment of the Russian rule, Crimean Tatars began leaving Crimea in several waves of emigration. Between 1784 and 1790, out of a total population of about a million, around 300,000 Crimean Tatars left for the Ottoman Empire.[12]

The

New Russia".[13] Eventually, the Crimean Tatars became a minority in Crimea; in 1783, they comprised 98 per cent of the population,[14] but by 1897, this was down to 34.1 per cent.[15] While Crimean Tatars were emigrating, the Russian government encouraged Russification of the peninsula, populating it with Russians, Ukrainians, and other Slavic ethnic groups; this Russification continued during the Soviet era.[15]

Evpatoria
, Crimea

After the 1917

collectivization in the 1920s led to severe famine from which up to 100,000 Crimeans perished when their crops were transported to "more important" regions of the Soviet Union.[17] By one estimate, three-quarters of the famine victims were Crimean Tatars.[16] Their status deteriorated further after Joseph Stalin became the de facto Soviet leader and implemented repressions that led to the deaths of at least 5.2 million Soviet citizens between 1927 and 1938.[18]

World War II

In 1940, the

Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic had approximately 1,126,800 inhabitants, of which 218,000 people, or 19.4 percent of the population, were Crimean Tatars.[19] In 1941, Nazi Germany invaded Eastern Europe, annexing much of the western USSR. Crimean Tatars initially viewed the Germans as liberators from Stalinism, and they had also been positively treated by the Germans in World War I.[20]

Many of the captured Crimean Tatars serving in the

occupy the bulk of Crimea. Though Nazis initially called for murder of all "Asiatic inferiors" and paraded around Crimean Tatar POW's labeled as "Mongol sub-humanity",[21][22] they revised this policy in the face of determined resistance from the Red Army. Beginning in 1942, Germans recruited Soviet prisoners of war to form support armies.[23] The Dobrujan Tatar nationalist Fazil Ulkusal and Lipka Tatar Edige Kirimal helped in freeing Crimean Tatars from German prisoner-of-war camps and enlisting them in the independent Crimean support legion for the Wehrmacht. This legion eventually included eight battalions, although many members were of other nationalities.[20] From November 1941, German authorities allowed Crimean Tatars to establish Muslim Committees in various towns as a symbolic recognition of some local government authority, though they were not given any political power.[24]

Number of Crimean Tatars in Crimea[25][14]
Year Number Percentage
1783 500,000 98%
1897 186,212 34.1%
1939 218,879 19.4%
1959 — —
1979 5,422 0.3%
1989 38,365 1.6%

Many Crimean Tatar communists strongly opposed the occupation and assisted the resistance movement to provide valuable strategic and political information.[24] Other Crimean Tatars also fought on the side of the Soviet partisans, like the Tarhanov movement of 250 Crimean Tatars which fought throughout 1942 until its destruction.[26] Six Crimean Tatars were even named the Heroes of the Soviet Union, and thousands more were awarded high honors in the Red Army.

Up to 130,000 people died during the Axis occupation of Crimea.

Crimean Offensive.[29]

A majority of the

hiwis (helpers), their families and all those associated with the Muslim Committees were evacuated to Germany and Hungary or Dobruja by the Wehrmacht and Romanian Army where they joined the Eastern Turkic division. Thus, the majority of the collaborators had been evacuated from Crimea by the retreating Wehrmacht.[30] Many Soviet officials had also recognized this and rejected claims that the Crimean Tatars had betrayed the Soviet Union en masse. The presence of Muslim Committees organized from Berlin by various Turkic foreigners appeared a cause for concern in the eyes of the Soviet government, already wary of Turkey at the time.[31]

Falsification of information in media

Soviet publications blatantly falsified information about Crimean Tatars in the Red Army, going so far as to describe Crimean Tatar Hero of the Soviet Union Uzeir Abduramanov as Azeri, not Crimean Tatar, on the cover of a 1944 issue of Ogonyok magazine - even though his family had been deported for being Crimean Tatar just a few months earlier.[32][33] The book In the Mountains of Tavria falsely claimed that volunteer partisan scout Bekir Osmanov was a German spy and shot, although the central committee later acknowledged that he never served the Germans and survived the war, ordering later editions to have corrections after still-living Osmanov and his family noticed the obvious falsehood.[34] Amet-khan Sultan, born to a Crimean Tatar mother and Lak father in Crimea, where he was born and raised, was often described as a Dagestani in post-deportation media, even though he always considered himself a Crimean Tatar.[35]

Deportation

Further information: Population transfer in the Soviet Union and Special settlements in the Soviet Union

We were told that we were being evicted and we had 15 minutes to get ready to leave. We boarded boxcars – there were 60 people in each, but no one knew where we were being taken to. To be shot? Hanged? Tears and panic were taking over.[36]

— Saiid, who was deported with his family from Yevpatoria when he was 10

Chronology of the ethnic makeup of Crimea. The sharp drop of the Crimean Tatars is visible after the deportation.
  Crimean Tatars

Officially due to the collaboration with the Axis powers during World War II, the Soviet government collectively punished ten ethnic minorities,[c 3][37] among them the Crimean Tatars.[38] Punishment included deportation to distant regions of Central Asia and Siberia.[37] Soviet accounts of the late 1940s indict the Crimean Tatars as an ethnicity of traitors. Although the Crimean Tatars denied that they had committed treason, this idea was widely accepted during the Soviet period and persists in the Russian scholarly and popular literature.[39] This was despite the fact that twice as many Crimean Tatars served in the Red Army, 40,000,[40] than had collaborated with the Axis powers, 20,000.[41]

On 10 May 1944, Lavrentiy Beria recommended to Stalin that the Crimean Tatars should be deported away from the border regions due to their "traitorous actions".[42] Stalin subsequently issued GKO Order No. 5859ss, which envisaged the resettlement of the Crimean Tatars.[43] The deportation lasted only three days,[44] 18–20 May 1944, during which NKVD agents went house to house collecting Crimean Tatars at gunpoint and forcing them to enter sealed-off[45] cattle trains that would transfer them almost 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi)[46] to remote locations in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. The Crimean Tatars were allowed to carry up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) of their property per family.[47] The only ones who could avoid this fate were Crimean Tatar women who were married to men of non-punished ethnic groups.[48] The exiled Crimean Tatars travelled in overcrowded wagons for several weeks and lacked food and water.[49] It is estimated that at least 228,392 people were deported from Crimea, of which at least 191,044 were Crimean Tatars[50] in 47,000 families.[51] Since 7,889 people perished in the long transit in sealed-off railcars, the NKVD registered the 183,155 living Crimean Tatars who arrived at their destinations in Central Asia.[52] The majority of the deportees were rounded up from the Crimean countryside. Only 18,983 of the exiles were from Crimean cities.[53]

Destinations of the deported (in Ukrainian)

On 4 July 1944, the NKVD officially informed Stalin that the resettlement was complete.

Azov Sea, and sank the ship. Those who did not drown were finished off by machine guns.[48]

Officially, Crimean Tatars were eliminated from Crimea. The deportation encompassed every person considered by the government to be Crimean Tatar, including children, women, and the elderly, and even those who had been members of the

special settlers, which meant that they were officially second-class citizens, prohibited from leaving the perimeter of their assigned area, attending prestigious universities, and had to regularly appear before the commandant's office.[55]

During this mass eviction, the Soviet authorities confiscated around 80,000 houses, 500,000

MVD.[19]

Uzbekistan, the main destination of the deported
Distribution of resettled Crimean Tatars within Soviet subdivisions, 1 January 1953.

In total, 151,136 Crimean Tatars were deported to the Uzbek SSR; 8,597 to the

Uzbek locals who threw stones at them, even their children, because they heard that the Crimean Tatars were "traitors" and "fascist collaborators."[59] The Uzbeks objected to becoming the "dumping ground for treasonous nations." In the coming years, several assaults against the Crimean Tatars population were registered, some of which were fatal.[59]

The mass Crimean deportations were organized by Lavrentiy Beria, the chief of the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, and his subordinates

NKGB allocated a further 20,000 armed men, together with a few thousand regular soldiers.[43] Two of Stalin's directives from May 1944 reveal that many parts of the Soviet government, from financing to transit, were involved in executing the operation.[19]

On 14 July 1944 the GKO authorized the immigration of 51,000 people, mostly Russians, to 17,000 empty

Crimean ASSR was abolished.[43]

1970, and 1979. They could only declare themselves as Tatars. This ban was lifted during the Soviet census of 1989.[61]

Aftermath

Mortality and death toll

Mortality of deported Crimean Tatars according to NKVDs files[62]
Year Number of deceased
May 1944 – 1 January 1945 13,592
1 January 1945 – 1 January 1946 13,183

The first deportees started arriving in the Uzbek SSR on 29 May 1944 and most had arrived by 8 June 1944.

mud huts where "there were no doors or windows, nothing, just reeds" on the floor to sleep on.[67]

The sole transport to these remote areas and

crematoria on wheels."[71] The records show that at least 7,889 Crimean Tatars died during this long journey, amounting to about 4 per cent of their entire ethnicity.[72]

We were forced to repair our own individual tents. We worked and we starved. Many were so weak from hunger that they could not stay on their feet.... Our men were at the front and there was no one who could bury the dead. Sometimes the bodies lay among us for several days.... Some Crimean Tatar children dug little graves and buried the unfortunate little ones.[73]
— anonymous Crimean Tatar woman, describing life in exile

The high mortality rate continued for several years in exile due to

excess deaths in these five years, 19.6 per cent of that total group.[2][30] Other sources give a figure of 44,125 deaths during that time,[74] while a third source, using alternative NKVD archives, gives a figure of 32,107 deaths.[5] These reports included all the people resettled from Crimea (including Armenians, Bulgarians, and Greeks), but the Crimean Tatars formed a majority in this group. It took five years until the number of births among the deported people started to surpass the number of deaths. Soviet archives reveal that between May 1944 and January 1945 a total of 13,592 Crimean Tatars perished in exile, about 7 per cent of their entire population.[62] Almost half of all deaths (6,096) were of children under the age of 16; another 4,525 were adult women and 2,562 were adult men. During 1945, a further 13,183 people died.[62] Thus, by the end of December 1945, at least 27,000 Crimean Tatars had already died in exile.[75]
One Crimean Tatar woman living near Tashkent recalled the events from 1944:

My parents were moved from Crimea to Uzbekistan in May 1944. My parents had sisters and brothers, but when they arrived in Uzbekistan, the only survivors were themselves. My parents' sisters and brothers and parents all died in transit because of catching bad colds and other diseases.... My mother was left completely alone and her first work was to cut trees.[76]

Estimates produced by Crimean Tatars indicate mortality figures that were far higher and amounted to 46% of their population living in exile.[77] In 1968, when Leonid Brezhnev presided over the USSR, Crimean Tatar activists were persecuted for using that high mortality figure under the guise that it was a "slander to the USSR." In order to show that Crimean Tatars were exaggerating, the KGB published figures showing that "only" 22 per cent of that ethnic group died.[77] The Karachay demographer Dalchat Ediev estimates that 34,300 Crimean Tatars died due to the deportation, representing an 18 per cent mortality rate.[2] Hannibal Travis estimates that overall 40,000–80,000 Crimean Tatars died in exile.[78] Professor Michael Rywkin gives a figure of at least 42,000 Crimean Tatars who died between 1944 and 1951, including 7,900 who died during the transit[4] Professor Brian Glyn Williams gives a figure of between 40,000 and 44,000 deaths as a consequence of this deportation.[3] The Crimean State Committee estimated that 45,000 Crimean Tatars died between 1944 and 1948. The official NKVD report estimated that 27 per cent of that ethnicity died.[5]

Various estimates of the mortality rates of the Crimean Tatars:

18%[2] 82%
Died in exile Survived in exile
27%[5] 73%
Died in exile Survived in exile
46%[77] 54%
Died in exile Survived in exile

Rehabilitation

A Crimean Tatar family in the 1960s during deportation after Soviet authorities refused to permit them to live in Crimea. Even after the "special-settlers" regime was lifted, Crimean Tatars were not allowed to live in Crimea without a residence permit

Stalin's government denied the Crimean Tatars the right to education or

Soviet Germans, the Meskhetian Turks, and the Crimean Tatars.[79] In 1954, Khrushchev allowed Crimea to be included in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic since Crimea is linked by land to Ukraine and not with the Russian SFSR.[80] On 28 April 1956, the directive "On Removing Restrictions on the Special Settlement of the Crimean Tatars... Relocated during the Great Patriotic War" was issued, ordering a de-registration of the deportees and their release from administrative supervision. However, various other restrictions were still kept and the Crimean Tatars were not allowed to return to Crimea. Moreover, that same year the Ukrainian Council of Ministers banned the exiled Crimean Tatars, Greeks, Germans, Armenians and Bulgarians from relocating even to the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Odesa Oblasts in the Ukrainian SSR.[81] The Crimean Tatars did not get any compensation for their lost property.[79]

In the 1950s, the Crimean Tatars started actively advocating for the right to return. In 1957, they collected 6,000 signatures in a petition that was sent to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union that demanded their political rehabilitation and return to Crimea.[73] In 1961 25,000 signatures were collected in a petition that was sent to the Kremlin.[79]

Mustafa Dzhemilev, who was only six months old when his family was deported from Crimea, grew up in Uzbekistan and became an activist for the right of the Crimean Tatars to return. In 1966 he was arrested for the first time and spent a total of 17 years in prison during the Soviet era. This earned him the nickname of "Crimean Tatar Mandela."[82] In 1984 he was sentenced for the sixth time for "anti-Soviet activity" but was given moral support by the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, who had observed Dzhemilev's fourth trial in 1976.[83] When older dissidents were arrested, a new, younger generation emerged that would replace them.[79]

On 21 July 1967, representatives of the Crimean Tatars, led by the dissident

Ayshe Seitmuratova, gained permission to meet with high-ranking Soviet officials in Moscow, including Yuri Andropov. During the meeting, the Crimean Tatars demanded a correction of all the injustices of the USSR against their people. In September 1967, the Supreme Soviet issued a decree that acknowledged the charge of treason against the entire nation was "unreasonable" but that did not allow Crimean Tatars the same full rehabilitation encompassing the right of return that other deported peoples were given. The carefully worded decree referred to them not as "Crimean Tatars" but as "citizens of Tatar nationality who having formerly lived in Crimea […] have taken root in the Uzbek SSR", thereby minimizing Crimean Tatar existence and downplaying their desire for the right of return in addition to creating a premise for claims of the issue being "settled".[84] Individuals united and formed groups that went back to Crimea in 1968 on their own, without state permission, but the Soviet authorities deported 6,000 of them once again.[85] The most notable example of such resistance was a Crimean Tatar activist, Musa Mamut, who was deported when he was 12 and who returned to Crimea because he wanted to see his home again. When the police informed him that he would be evicted, he set himself on fire.[85] Nevertheless, 577 families managed to obtain state permission to reside in Crimea.[86]

An empty Tatar home in Crimea, photographed in 1968

In 1968 unrest erupted among the Crimean Tatar people in the Uzbek city of

labour camp but still insisted on his cause because he was convinced that the treatment of the Crimean Tatars by the USSR amounted to genocide.[88] In 1973, Dzhemilev was also arrested for his advocacy for Crimean Tatar right to return to Crimea.[89]

Amet-khan Sultan was a highly decorated Crimean Tatar flying ace who was twice awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Amet-khan was one of the first people in the Soviet Union to publicly request the rehabilitation and right of return for the Crimean Tatars in 1956.[90][91]

Repatriation

Main article: Crimean Tatar repatriation

Despite de-Stalinization, the situation didn't change until Gorbachev's perestroika in the late 1980s. A 1987 Tatar protest near the Kremlin[73] prompted Gorbachev to form the Gromyko Commission which found against Tatar claims, but a second commission recommended "renewal of autonomy" for Crimean Tatars.[92] In 1989 the ban on the return of deported ethnicities was declared officially null and void and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union further declared the deportations criminal,[56] paving the way for the Crimean Tatars to return. Dzhemilev returned to Crimea that year, with at least 166,000 other Tatars doing the same by January 1992.[93] The 1991 Russian law On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples rehabilitated all Soviet repressed ethnicities and abolished all previous Russian laws relating to the deportations, calling for the "restoration and return of the cultural and spiritual values and archives which represent the heritage of the repressed people."[94]

By 2004 the Crimean Tatars formed 12 per cent of the population of Crimea.

Ukraine declared independence faced several obstacles including a costly bureaucratic process.[97]

Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation

In March 2014, the

Russian Federation issued Decree No. 268 "On the Measures for the Rehabilitation of Armenian, Bulgarian, Greek, Crimean Tatar and German Peoples and the State Support of Their Revival and Development" on 21 April 2014,[98] in practice Russia has intensified persecution of Crimean Tatars and their human rights situation has significantly deteriorated.[99] The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a warning against the Kremlin in 2016 because it "intimidated, harassed and jailed Crimean Tatar representatives, often on dubious charges",[44] while the representative body the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People was banned.[100]

An event commemorating the victims of the Crimean Tatar deportation in Kyiv in 2016
human rights violations were recorded in Crimea, including the prevention of Crimean Tatars from marking the 71st anniversary of their deportation.[103]

Modern views and legacy

The KGB collaborators are furious that we are gathering statistical evidence about Crimean Tatars who perished in exile and that we are collecting materials against the sadist commandants who derided the people during the Stalin years and who, according to the precepts of the Nuremberg Tribunal, should be tried for crimes against humanity. As a result of the crime of 1944, I lost thousands upon thousands of my brothers and sisters. And this must be remembered![104]
— Mustafa Dzhemilev, 1966

Historian Edward Allworth has noted that the extent of marginalization of the Crimean Tatars was a distinct anomaly among national policy in the USSR given the party's firm commitment maintaining the status quo of not recognizing them as a distinct ethnic group in addition to assimilating and "rooting" them in exile, in sharp contrast to the rehabilitation other deported ethnic groups such as the Chechens, Ingush, Karachays, Balkars, and Kalmyks experienced in the Khrushchev era.[105]

Between 1989 and 1994, around a quarter of a million Crimean Tatars returned to Crimea from exile in Central Asia. This was seen as a symbolic victory of their efforts to return to their native land.[106] They returned after 45 years of exile.[107]

Not one of the several ethnic groups who were deported during Stalin's era received any kind of financial compensation.

successor state of the USSR, to finance rehabilitation of that ethnicity and provide financial compensation for forcible resettlement.[108]

Symbol of the anniversary of deportation of the Crimean Tatars

Despite the thousands of Crimean Tatars in the Red Army when it

sought access to the Dardanelles and control of territory in Turkey, where the Crimean Tatars had ethnic kin. By painting the Crimean Tatars as traitors, this taint could be extended to their kin.[111] Scholar Walter Kolarz alleges that the deportation and the attempt of liquidation of Crimean Tatars as an ethnicity in 1944 was just the final act of the centuries-long process of Russian colonization of Crimea that started in 1783.[12] Historian Gregory Dufaud regards the Soviet accusations against Crimean Tatars as a convenient excuse for their forcible transfer through which Moscow secured an unrivalled access to the geostrategic southern Black Sea on one hand and eliminated hypothetical rebellious nations at the same time.[110] Professor of Russian and Soviet history Rebecca Manley similarly concluded that the real aim of the Soviet government was to "cleanse" the border regions of "unreliable elements".[112] Professor Brian Glyn Williams states that the deportations of Meskhetian Turks, despite never being close to the scene of combat and never being charged with any crime, lends the strongest credence to the fact that the deportations of Crimeans and Caucasians was due to Soviet foreign policy rather than any real "universal mass crimes".[113]

Modern interpretations by scholars and historians sometimes classify this mass deportation of civilians as a

depopulation,[116] an act of Stalinist repression,[117] or an "ethnocide", meaning a deliberate wiping out of an identity and culture of a nation.[118][110] Crimean Tatars call this event Sürgünlik ("exile").[119] The perception of Crimean Tatars as "uncivilized" and deserving the deportation remains throughout the Russian and Ukrainian settlers in Crimea.[120]

Genocide question and recognition

Ukrainian coin commemorating the Genocide of the Crimean Tatars, issued 2015.
The projection mapping in Kyiv in 2020 for the Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide

Some activists, politicians, scholars, countries, and historians go even further and consider the deportation a crime of

Pyotr Grigorenko[129] both classified the event as a genocide. Historian Timothy Snyder included it in a list of Soviet policies that “meet the standard of genocide."[130] Historians Alexandre Bennigsen and Marie Bennigsen-Broxup included the case of Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks as two examples of successful genocides by Soviet governments. They summed it up by saying that Crimean Tatars, "a nation which for over five centuries had played a major part in the history of Eastern Europe has simply ceased to exist".[131] Polish scholar Tomasz Kamusella observed that Moscow attempted an "unmaking of Crimean Tatars and their languague" by not allowing them even to be registered as Crimean Tatars since the deportation; they could only declare themselves as Tatars. It wasn't until the 1989 census that Crimean Tatars were again recognized as a separate nationality. The Crimean Tatar language was only allowed to be taught again in Soviet schools since the 1980s.[132]

On 12 December 2015, the

Ukrainian Parliament issued a resolution recognizing this event as genocide and established 18 May as the "Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide."[133] The parliament of Latvia recognized the event as an act of genocide on 9 May 2019.[134][135] The Parliament of Lithuania did the same on 6 June 2019.[136] Canadian Parliament passed a motion on June 10, 2019, recognizing the Crimean Tatar deportation of 1944 (Sürgünlik) as a genocide perpetrated by Soviet dictator Stalin, designating May 18 to be a day of remembrance.[137][138] On 26 April 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, under its chairman Boris Yeltsin, passed the law On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples with Article 2 denouncing all mass deportations as "Stalin's policy of defamation and genocide."[139]

# Name Date of recognition Source
1  Ukraine 12 December 2015 [133]
2  Latvia 9 May 2019 [134][135]
3  Lithuania 6 June 2019 [136]
4  Canada 10 June 2019 [137][138]

A minority dispute defining the event as genocide. According to Alexander Statiev, the

death rate", but Stalin did not have the intent to exterminate these peoples. He considers such deportations merely an example of Soviet assimilation of "unwanted nations."[140] According to Amir Weiner, the Soviet regime sought to eradicate "only" their "territorial identity".[141] Such views were criticized by Jon Chang as "gentrified racism" and historical revisionism. He noted that the deportations had been in fact based on ethnicity of victims.[142]

In popular culture

Eurovision winning song "1944
" to the deported Crimean Tatars

In 2008, Lily Hyde, a British journalist living in Ukraine, published a novel titled Dreamland that revolves around a Crimean Tatar family return to their homeland in the 1990s. The story is told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl who moves from Uzbekistan to a demolished village with her parents, brother, and grandfather. Her grandfather tells her stories about the heroes and victims among the Crimean Tatars.[143]

The 2013 Ukrainian Crimean Tatar-language film Haytarma portrays the experience of Crimean Tatar flying ace and Hero of the Soviet Union Amet-khan Sultan during the 1944 deportations.[144]

In 2015, Christina Paschyn released the documentary film A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars in a Ukrainian–Qatari co-production. It depicts the history of the Crimean Tatars from 1783 up until 2014, with a special emphasis on the 1944 mass deportation.[145]

Crimean Tatar singer Jamala entered the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with her song "1944", which refers to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in the eponymous year. Jamala, an ethnic Crimean Tatar born in exile in Kyrgyzstan, dedicated the song to her deported great-grandmother. She became the first Crimean Tatar to perform at Eurovision and also the first to perform with a song with lyrics in the Crimean Tatar language. She went on to win the contest, becoming the second Ukrainian artist to win the event.[146]

See also

Comments

  1. ^ The Russian SFSR officially recognised the deportations of peoples by Stalin's government from their territories as acts of genocide.[7][8] Nevertheless, there are still some researchers who do not consider these deportations to be acts of genocide. For more information, see the section § Genocide question and recognition.
  2. ^ Or, according to other sources, 423,100.[9]
  3. ^ Besides the Crimean Tatars, these included the Volga Germans, Chechens, Ingush, Meskhetian Turks, Balkars, Karachays, Soviet Koreans, Kalmyks and Kurds.

Citations

  1. ^ Naimark 2010, pp. 2–14, 126, 135.
  2. ^ a b c d Buckley, Ruble & Hofmann (2008), p. 207
  3. ^ a b Williams 2015, p. 109.
  4. ^ a b c Rywkin 1994, p. 67.
  5. ^ a b c d Ukrainian Congress Committee of America 2004, pp. 43–44.
  6. ^ Hall 2014, p. 53.
  7. ^ Закон РСФСР от 26 апреля 1991 г. N 1107-I «О реабилитации репрессированных народов» (с изменениями и дополнениями) Article 2 "Репрессированными признаются народы (нации, народности или этнические группы и иные исторически сложившиеся культурно-этнические общности людей, например, казачество), в отношении которых по признакам национальной или иной принадлежности проводилась на государственном уровне политика клеветы и геноцида, сопровождавшаяся их насильственным переселением, упразднением национально-государственных образований, перекраиванием национально-территориальных границ, установлением режима террора и насилия в местах спецпоселения"
  8. ^ Закон «О реабилитации репрессированных народов» (1991) // РИА — 26.04.2016
  9. ^ Allworth 1988, p. 6.
  10. ^ Bezverkha 2017, p. 127.
  11. ^ Spring 2015, p. 228.
  12. ^ a b Potichnyj 1975, pp. 302–319.
  13. ^ Fisher 1987, pp. 356–371.
  14. ^ a b Tanner 2004, p. 22.
  15. ^ a b Vardys (1971), p. 101
  16. ^ a b Smele 2015, p. 302.
  17. ^ Olson, Pappas & Pappas 1994, p. 185.
  18. ^ Rosefielde 1997, pp. 321–331.
  19. ^ a b c d Parrish 1996, p. 104.
  20. ^ a b Williams (2015), p. 92
  21. ^ Burleigh 2001, p. 748.
  22. ^ Fisher 2014, pp. 151–152.
  23. ^ Williams (2001), p. 377
  24. ^ a b Fisher 2014, p. 157.
  25. ^ Drohobycky 1995, p. 73.
  26. ^ Fisher 2014, p. 160.
  27. ^ Fisher 2014, p. 156.
  28. ^ Williams (2001), p. 381
  29. ^ Allworth 1998, p. 177.
  30. ^ a b c Uehling 2004, p. 38.
  31. ^ Williams 2001, pp. 382–384.
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