20/05/2017 · UKRAINE is bringing charges against Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his secret police chief for the victims of the 1944 Deportation of the Crimean Tatars.

18/02/2019 · Over 50 years after the Soviet Union formally refuted the lies about Crimean Tatars that Joseph Stalin used to justify the 1944 Deportation, Russia has reinstated them in a school history textbook. This is not just a grave distortion of history, but a move surely aimed at inciting enmity towards the main indigenous people of Crimea, the vast majority of whom opposed …

21/04/2014 · Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree officially rehabilitating the Crimean Tatars and other ethnic minorities on the peninsula, who were deported en masse in 1944 by Joseph Stalin because many of them collaborated with Nazi invaders.

14/05/2016 · During the Soviet era, Joseph Stalin began a campaign of repressions against the Crimean Tatars, ordering the deportation of some 180,000 of them to Central Asia in 1944. The event remains one of...

15/03/2014 · A Crimean Tatar man cries during a rally held in Simferopol on the 60th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Tatars from Crimea. Photograph by Baz …

26/02/2016 · Charged with collaboration with the Nazis, in 1944, 240,000 Crimean Tartars were deported to Soviet Central Asia. The history behind Ukraine Eurovision song about Stalin's deportation of Crimean ...

26/07/1987 · Dictator Joseph Stalin, who died in 1953 after ruling 29 years, dissolved the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1945, and in 1954 the region became part of the Ukraine.

The Soviet government's active promotion of Crimean Tatar national development in the 1920s contrasts sharply with Stalin's later attempt to destroy the Crimean Tatars as a people. During the 1930s, Soviet policies towards the Crimean Tatars became increasingly repressive.