In order to break the resistance of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, more than 200,000 people were deported from the western regions of Ukraine to Russia between 1944 and 1952. Most of them were subsequently banned from returning to their homeland for decades.
Together with the Polish authorities, which remained under complete Russian control according to the Yalta Agreement, large-scale ethnic purifications were carried out, such as Operation ‘Vistula’ in 1947. In total, almost half a million people were deported from 1944 to 1951.
The Crimea is an integral part of Ukraine, and the Crimean Tatars, accordingly, are part of the Ukrainian people.
In 1944 Russia organized the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people in the form of deportation, during which almost half of the deportees died.
According to a self-census conducted by the National Movement of Crimean Tatars, 423,100 people were deported. The most vulnerable – children, the elderly and women – died in their thousands while being transported in overcrowded freight cars without heating, sufficient food or any other amenities.
(The same thing happened with the other, mentioned above, deportations during the Soviet period.)
After a multi-day journey, people, who were forced to leave with almost nothing in a matter of hours, were simply left in the bare Kazakh steppe, without any provisions.
By order of Stalin, any mention of the Crimean Tatar people and their culture was wiped out. More than 1,300 settlements with authentic names were renamed. It was forbidden to mention the Crimean Tatars even during the population census.
Зазначимо, що з появи Московії, на «своїй» окупованій за століття території, Росія знищила численні народи, культури та мови, в окремих випадках до останнього носія.
It should be noted that since the emergence of Moscovy, on “its” territory, occupied for centuries, Russia has destroyed numerous peoples, cultures, and languages, in some cases down to the last native speaker.
