Today is the 79th anniversary of the night when the deportation in cattle trucks was begun of 191,000 Crimean Tatars from their homes in the autonomous Republic of Crimea to Uzbekistan, deep in the Soviet Union. They had 30 minutes to pack and the deportations were conducted in just three days[background: wikipedia]. Their abandoned properties were given to Russian families who moved into the area soon afterwards. It was only after this forced displacement that Crimea became "Russian" (that is, merely an oblast within the Russian SFSR) for just ten years (1944-1954) before being transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 - thence to Ukraine after Independence
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Today marks 79 years since Crimean Tatars were deported from their homes in Crimea by Soviet authorities.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 18, 2023
This deportation killed thousands of people, destroyed many families.
It was a great tragedy that must never be forgotten.
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