Moscow gave a touch minority of tartar from the Crimea. Organizations such as Crimean Solidarity announced this Thursday that Russian authorities have banned demonstrations in memory of Crimea. was exiled during his reign. stalin As the same group noted, FSB guysThe Russian secret service reportedly visited some members of this organization in person and reminded them that all demonstrations and protests in the region are currently prohibited. “Activists see these actions as repression. Intimidation of the Crimean Tatar people once again“, the business officially assured.
This peninsula, annexed in 2014 after a criticized referendum, is part of Ukraine in the eyes of the international community, despite being controlled by Moscow. Tatars, an indigenous ethnic minority, regret that they have not been allowed since the annexation to Russia. Don’t forget on May 18 to those deported by Stalin’s regime in the 1940s. they represent approximately 15% of two million living in the region and one of the main groups They flatly refused to be a part of it. Russia. Ukrainian president Volodímir Zelensky reminded them on social networks, assuring that they will “live free” in the future.
After World War II, the Soviet Union did. mass exiles certain ethnic groups accused of having collaborated with the Nazis something that, during the war, spread to everyone from certain groups, but not proven They were sympathizers of Hitler’s Germany. This included the elderly, children and womenforcibly resettled in Central Asia, Siberia, and the Russian Far East, near Alaska, where thousands of deaths on long journeys. Besides the Tatars, about a dozen ethnic groups suffered this fate. Chechens, Kalmyks, Volga Germansamong others.
a complex legacy
Joseph DzugashviliBetter known as Stalin, he was one of the most important leaders of the 20th century and one of the best-known in Putin’s Russia. Under his command, the USSR became strength And was key In the so-called “Great Patriotic War” in Russia, World War II. in the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Something that is not always comfortable to explain, purges, systematic suppression of oppositionAmong other authoritarian tics that characterize Georgian leadership At the head of the USSR.
While not honored in the same way as the great revolutionary leader Lenin, his legacy is often seen more in Russia. positive one of the few organizations that want more from other countries. then study and above all honor the victims It was NGO Memorial that was declared a “foreign agent” by the Russian authorities in 2014 and was forced to close in 2021.