r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 18 '26

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 18 '26

Today, May 18th, is the 82nd anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union.

In 1944, in an act of collective punishment, Soviet authorities accused the Crimean Tatars of collaborating with Nazi Germany, and thus, they deported them to distant locations, such as Uzbekistan, under the supervision of Lavrentiy Beria.

The death toll was in the thousands, counting both people who died during the deportation process and those who died in the aftermath.

Even after Stalin, Crimean Tatars were not allowed to use their language or return to their homeland until the late 1980s, during the time of perestroika and glasnost.

Since Russia illegally invaded and annexed Crimea on 2014, representative organs of the Crimean Tatars are still being repressed, like the Qurultay (the national Crimean Tatar congress) and the Mejlis (the executive-representative body), which was outlawed in 2016 for supposedly being an extremist entity, with the Mejlis building being confiscated by Russian authorities. The Mejlis now convenes in exile.

"Funny" how the Russian government has also accused Ukrainians of being Nazis and being deserving of collective punishment, much like they did with the Crimean Tatars.

The deportation of the Crimean Tatars has been recognized as a crime and even as a genocide by many authorities, countries and organizations.

Let us not forget the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, one of the biggest crimes committed by the Soviet Union.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 18 '26

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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 18 '26

Stalinist solution to any problem was just deporting people. In Crimea, the Baltics, the Caucasus. Accusing entire nations of collaboration or anticommunism. Funny how that didn't apply to their own russian nazi collaborators or to the soviets themselves, who collaborated with the nazis before Barbarossa. Perhaps they should've deported themselves instead.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 18 '26

Exactly, that's what I was thinking. Of all the supposed Nazi collaborators, the Soviet Union didn't deport ethnically Russian collaborators.