Deportation Crimean Tatars in Last year Great Patriotic War was a mass eviction of local residents of Crimea to a number of regions of the Uzbek SSR, Kazakh SSR, Mari ASSR and other republics Soviet Union.
This happened immediately after the liberation of the peninsula from the Nazi invaders. The official reason for the action was the criminal assistance of many thousands of Tatars to the occupiers.

Crimean collaborators

The eviction was carried out under the control of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in May 1944. The order for the deportation of the Tatars, allegedly members of the collaborationist groups during the occupation of the Crimean ASSR, was signed by Stalin shortly before that, on May 11th. Beria substantiated the reasons:

Desertion of 20 thousand Tatars from the army during the period 1941-1944;
- the unreliability of the Crimean population, especially pronounced in the border areas;
- a threat to the security of the Soviet Union due to collaborationist actions and anti-Soviet sentiments of the Crimean Tatars;
- the deportation of 50 thousand civilians to Germany with the assistance of the Crimean Tatar committees.

In May 1944, the government of the Soviet Union did not yet have all the figures regarding the real situation in the Crimea. After the defeat of Hitler and the calculation of losses, it became known that 85.5 thousand newly minted "slaves" of the Third Reich were actually stolen to Germany only from among the civilian population of Crimea.

Almost 72 thousand were executed with the direct participation of the so-called "Noise". Schuma is an auxiliary police, but in fact - punitive Crimean Tatar battalions subordinate to the Nazis. Of these 72,000, 15,000 communists were brutally tortured in the largest concentration camp in Crimea, the former Krasnoy collective farm.

Main allegations

After the retreat, the Nazis took part of the collaborators with them to Germany. Subsequently, a special SS regiment was formed from among them. The other part (5,381 people) were arrested by the security officers after the liberation of the peninsula. Many weapons were seized during the arrests. The government was afraid of an armed rebellion of the Tatars because of their proximity to Turkey (the latter Hitler hoped to draw into the war with the communists).

According to the research of a Russian scientist, professor of history Oleg Romanko, during the war years, 35,000 Crimean Tatars helped the Nazis in one way or another: they served in the German police, participated in executions, handed over communists, etc. For this, even distant relatives of traitors were supposed to be exiled and confiscate property.

The main argument in favor of the rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatar population and its return to their historical homeland was that the deportation was actually carried out not on the basis of the real deeds of specific people, but on a national basis.

Even those who did not contribute to the Nazis were sent into exile. At the same time, 15% of Tatar men fought alongside other Soviet citizens in the Red Army. In the partisan detachments, 16% were Tatars. Their families were also deported. Stalin's fears that the Crimean Tatars might succumb to pro-Turkish sentiments, revolt and end up on the side of the enemy were reflected in this mass character.

The government wanted to eliminate the threat from the south as quickly as possible. The eviction was carried out urgently, in freight cars. On the way, many died due to crowding, lack of food and drinking water. In total, about 190 thousand Tatars were deported from Crimea during the war. 191 Tatars died during transportation. Another 16 thousand died in new places of residence from mass starvation in 1946-1947.

Taken from the BBC website
Some facts are deliberately exaggerated or distorted.

On May 18-20, 1944, in the Crimea, NKVD fighters, on orders from Moscow, herded almost the entire Crimean Tatar population into railway cars and sent them to Uzbekistan in 70 echelons.

This forced eviction of the Tatars, whom the Soviet authorities accused of collaborating with the Nazis, was one of the most rapidly carried out deportations in the history of mankind.

The BBC Ukrainian service prepared a certificate on how the deportation took place and how the Crimean Tatars lived after it.

How did the Tatars live in Crimea before the deportation?

After the creation of the USSR in 1922, Moscow recognized the Crimean Tatars as the indigenous population of the Crimean ASSR as part of the indigenization policy.

In the 1920s, the Tatars were allowed to develop their culture. In Crimea there were Crimean Tatar newspapers, magazines, educational institutions museums, libraries and theatres.

The Crimean Tatar language, together with Russian, was the official language of the autonomy. More than 140 village councils used it.

In the 1920s-1930s, Tatars made up 25-30% of the total population.

However, in the 1930s Soviet policy in relation to the Tatars, as in relation to other nationalities of the USSR, it became repressive. First there was the dispossession and eviction of the Tatars to the north of Russia and beyond the Urals. Then forced collectivization and famine of 1932-33. And then - purges of the intelligentsia in 1937-38.

Image copyright Image caption Crimean Tatar State Ensemble "Khaitarma". Moscow, 1935

This turned many Crimean Tatars against the Soviet regime.

When did the deportation take place?

The main phase of the forced resettlement took place over less than three days, starting at dawn on May 18, 1944 and ending at 4:00 pm on May 20. In total, 238.5 thousand people were deported from Crimea - almost the entire Crimean Tatar population.

For this, the NKVD attracted more than 32 thousand security officials.

What caused the deportation?

The official reason for the forced resettlement was the accusation of the entire Crimean Tatar people of high treason, "mass extermination of Soviet people" and collaborationism - cooperation with the Nazi occupiers.

Such arguments were contained in the decision of the State Defense Committee on the deportation, which appeared a week before it began.

However, historians name other, unofficial reasons for the resettlement. Among them is the fact that the Crimean Tatars historically had close ties with Turkey, which the USSR at the time viewed as a potential rival. In the plans of the Union, the Crimea was a strategic springboard in case of a possible conflict with this country, and Stalin wanted to play it safe from possible saboteurs and traitors, whom he considered the Tatars.

This theory is supported by the fact that other Muslim ethnic groups were resettled from the Caucasian regions adjacent to Turkey: Chechens, Ingush, Karachays and Balkars.

Did some Tatars really support the Nazis?

According to various sources, between 9,000 and 20,000 Crimean Tatars served in the anti-Soviet combat units formed by the German authorities, writes historian J. Otto Paul. Some of them sought to protect their villages from Soviet partisans, who, according to the Tatars themselves, often persecuted them on a national basis.

Other Tatars joined the German detachments because they were captured by the Nazis and wanted to alleviate the inhuman conditions of their stay in the prisoner of war camps in Simferopol and Nikolaev.

At the same time, 15% of the adult male Crimean Tatar population fought on the side of the Red Army. During the deportation, they were demobilized and sent to labor camps in Siberia and the Urals.

In May 1944, most of those who served in the German detachments retreated to Germany. Mostly wives and children who remained on the peninsula were deported.

How did the forced resettlement take place?

Image copyright Image caption Spouses in the Urals, 1953

Employees of the NKVD entered the Tatar houses and announced to the owners that they were being evicted from the Crimea because of treason.

To collect things, gave 15-20 minutes. Officially, each family had the right to take up to 500 kg of luggage with them, but in reality they were allowed to take much less, and sometimes nothing at all.

People were transported by truck to railway stations. From there, almost 70 echelons were sent east with tightly closed freight cars, which were crowded with people.

About 8,000 people died during the move, most of them children and the elderly. The most common causes of death are thirst and typhus.

Some people, unable to endure suffering, went crazy.

All the property left in the Crimea after the Tatars, the state appropriated to itself.

Where were the Tatars deported to?

Most of the Tatars were sent to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

Small groups of people ended up in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the Urals and the Kostroma region of Russia.

What were the consequences of the deportation for the Tatars?

During the first three years after the resettlement, from starvation, exhaustion and disease, according to various estimates, from 20 to 46% of all deportees died.

Almost half of those who died in the first year were children under 16.

Image copyright MEMORY.GOV.UA Image caption Mari ASSR. Team at the logging site. 1950

Due to the lack of clean water, poor hygiene and lack of medical care, malaria, yellow fever, dysentery and other diseases spread among the deportees. The newcomers had no natural immunity against many local ailments.

What status did they have in Uzbekistan?

The vast majority of the Crimean Tatars were moved to the so-called special settlements - surrounded by paramilitary guards, checkpoints and fenced with barbed wire, territories that looked more like labor camps than civilian settlements.

Newcomers were a cheap labor force, and they were used to work in collective farms, state farms and industrial enterprises. In Uzbekistan, they cultivated cotton fields, worked in mines, construction, plants and factories. Among the most difficult works was the construction of the Farkhad hydroelectric power station.

In 1948, Moscow recognized the Crimean Tatars as lifelong migrants. Those who, without the permission of the NKVD, went outside their special settlement, for example, to visit relatives, were threatened with a 20-year prison sentence. There have been such cases.

Even before the deportation, propaganda incited hatred for the Crimean Tatars among local residents, stigmatizing them as traitors and enemies of the people.

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As historian Greta Lynn Ugling writes, the Uzbeks were told that "cyclops" and "cannibals" were coming to them and were advised to stay away from the newcomers. After the deportation, some local residents felt the heads of visitors to check if horns were growing on them.

Later, when they learned that the Crimean Tatars were of the same faith, the Uzbeks were surprised.

The children of the settlers could receive an education in Russian or Uzbek, but not in Crimean Tatar. Until 1957, any publication in this language was prohibited. An article about the Crimean Tatars was removed from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE). This nationality was also forbidden to enter in the passport.

What has changed in Crimea without the Tatars?

After the Tatars, as well as the Greeks, Bulgarians and Germans, were evicted from the peninsula in June 1945, Crimea ceased to be autonomous republic and became a region within the RSFSR.

The southern regions of Crimea, where the Crimean Tatars used to live, were deserted. For example, according to official data, only 2.6 thousand inhabitants remained in the Alushta district, and 2.2 thousand in Balaklava. Subsequently, people from Ukraine and Russia began to move here.

"Toponymic repressions" were carried out on the peninsula - most of the cities, villages, mountains and rivers that had Crimean Tatar, Greek or German names received new, Russian names. Among the exceptions are Bakhchisaray, Dzhankoy, Ishun, Saki and Sudak.

The Soviet authorities destroyed Tatar monuments, burned manuscripts and books, including volumes of Lenin and Marx, translated into Crimean Tatar. Cinemas and shops were opened in mosques.

When were the Tatars allowed to return to Crimea?

The regime of special settlements for the Tatars lasted until the era of Khrushchev's de-Stalinization - the second half of the 1950s. Then the Soviet government softened the living conditions for them, but did not remove the charges of high treason.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Tatars fought for their right to return to their historical homeland, including through demonstrations in Uzbek cities. In 1968, the occasion for one of these actions was Lenin's birthday. The authorities responded with force and dispersed the rally.

Gradually, the Crimean Tatars managed to achieve the expansion of their rights, however, an informal, but no less strict ban on their return to Crimea was in force until 1989.

Image copyright Image caption Osman Ibrish with his wife Alime. Kibray settlement, Uzbekistan, 1971

A new challenge for the Crimean Tatars was the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014. Some of them left the peninsula under the pressure of persecution. Other Russian authorities have themselves banned entry to Crimea, including the leaders of this people, Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov.

Does the deportation have signs of genocide?

Some researchers and dissidents believe that the deportation of the Tatars is consistent with the UN definition of genocide. They argue that the Soviet government intended to destroy the Crimean Tatars as an ethnic group and purposefully moved towards this goal.

In 2006, the kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people turned to the Verkhovna Rada with a request to recognize the deportation as genocide.

Despite this, in most historical works and diplomatic documents forced resettlement Crimean Tatars are now called deportation, not genocide.

In the Soviet Union, the term "resettlement" was used.

Over the next four years, half of all Crimean Tatars who lived in the USSR then returned to the peninsula - 250 thousand people.

The return of the indigenous population to Crimea was difficult and was accompanied by land conflicts with local residents who managed to settle in the new land. However, major confrontations were avoided.

Publicist Anatoly Vasserman commented on the decision of the Latvian parliamentarians to recognize the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 as "genocide".

The Saeima of Latvia released a statement claiming that the decision of the Soviet authorities to deport the Crimean Tatars was " genocide of the Crimean Tatar people“It is also alleged that Russia, after joining the Crimean peninsula, allegedly continues to oppress this people.

Commenting on the decision of the Latvian parliamentarians, Anatoly Wasserman joked that they could just as well admit that twice two equals five.

He recalled that the Crimean Tatars had done enough during the war that, according to the laws of war, should be punishable by death, but they decided to deport them in order to save the people themselves -

« The deportation of the Crimean Tatars to Central Asia formally became a smear death penalty for all the people who did not want to destroy. If then all those deserving the death penalty were executed - and this is a large part of the men of this people, then women would have to marry representatives of other peoples, and thus this people would disappear in one generation»,

- said Anatoly Wasserman.

According to him, the war was in the mode of competition between economies:

« It was vital for us to ensure the extraction and transportation of oil. And some of the peoples that participated in the German crimes, nevertheless, were able to reformat their own leadership so that one could hope for the safety of those oil pipelines that passed in close proximity to the places of residence of these peoples. And they were spared. They were not touched, they were not evicted anywhere. And this decision paid off.

And those who had too strong family ties to the detriment of public behavior, removed from sin away. In fact, it was not even a punishment. These were security measures in wartime. In exactly the same way, in the United States in the first days of the war, all the Japanese who lived there were arrested and taken away. True, at the end of hostilities they were officially apologized, but apologies do not replace the lost years of life. That is, not only we were engaged in deportation during the war, it was a necessary measure

»,

- Wasserman explained.

The expert recalled that it is now fashionable to say that the deportation took place in barbaric conditions, that almost half of the people died on the way, but this is not true:

« This is a complete and blatant lie. It was allowed to take with you up to 500 kg of cargo per family. Everything left was taken according to the official inventory and in return, at the new place of residence, people were given something equivalent.

Throughout its history, our country has experienced an acute shortage of labor resources, therefore, in all cases where there is a choice, the country's leadership chooses the option with minimal loss of labor resources. And in the event of deportation, citizens were provided with work, and therefore with earnings, in a new place.

Plus, the health of the migrants was monitored very carefully on the way. Relevant internal reporting documents have been preserved. At stops, not only food was brought into the cars, but also medicines. The medical staff made sure that there was no spread of diseases. And the escorts were interested in people being alive and well, because each deceased had to be accounted for, proving that he did not run away on the way

»,

- Wasserman remarked.

He expressed regret that the practice of meaningless statements by parliamentarians is spreading all over the world.

« And it's good if these are just statements. And if they develop into laws, then this is already scary. Russian Federation from the statement of the Latvian Seimas it is neither cold nor hot, because we already know that they do not like us with foam at the mouth. But for Latvia itself, this means that its top leadership is obliged to act not in the interests of the country and the people, but in the interests of political fantasies. And I sympathize with ordinary citizens of Latvia, whose government makes it worse for itself. But as they say in my small homeland, eyes saw that they were buying, and now eat, at least get out»

- concluded the publicist.

Every year since 2014, hysteria begins these days on the occasion of the next anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, who were deported immediately after the liberation of Crimea from Nazi invaders in 1944. Those expelled for mass, i.e. almost all the people aiding the enemy. The start of this hysteria and speculation was personally given by Vladimir Putin in 2014, who, for no apparent reason, decided to play the card of "cruel" Stalinist deportations against supposedly innocent Crimean Tatars.

Let's try to understand this topic. The fact that the Crimean Tatars immediately greeted the occupiers with bread, salt and prayers of blessing is historical fact. This is evidenced by a lot of documents that are now carefully hidden, reaching out even to the textbooks of the history of Crimea. They hide it in order to show the cruelty and unmotivated decision of the USSR leadership to expel the people - an accomplice of the Nazis.

The Tatars immediately sided with us. They saw us as their liberators from the Bolshevik yoke, especially since we respected their religious customs. A Tatar delegation came to me, bringing fruits and beautiful handmade fabrics for the liberator of the Tatars "Adolf Effendi".

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From the leading article of the local Crimean Tatar newspaper dated April 21, 1942, entitled "Victory is yours" with congratulations on the occasion of Hitler's birthday:

“Greetings to you, the great messenger of God, Mr. Adolf Hitler! Today, when you crossed the fifty-third year of your life and began the fifty-fourth year, the year of victory and success, warm greetings to you from those who love you, who expected your help and saw the joy of liberating the oppressed Tatar people of Crimea. (...) You, sir, today stand at the head of victory. Victory will be yours!"

At the same time, even before the capture of the Crimea, two Red Army divisions No. 320 and 321 formed from the Crimean Tatars, numbering 10 thousand people, fled by October 1941, i.e. deserted, exposing the front to the Germans. And after the occupation of the Crimean Tatars in all settlements Volunteer detachments were formed to help the German occupiers. These detachments were engaged in the protection of the camps of Soviet prisoners of war, the fight against partisans and Soviet landing forces, etc.

One way or another, about 20 thousand Crimean Tatars from among the men directly participated on the side of the Germans. That is, about 9-10% of the total population. Is it a lot or a little, based on the total pre-war number of 218 thousand people? Help us to understand age and sex pyramid RSFSR from 1939:

On it, I showed that 9-10% of the total population is approximately 20% of the total male population. Or 12 draft ages from 18 to 30 years. That is, all the most combat-ready part of the men went into the service of the Germans. For this reason, to assert that only 10% passed to the Germans, i.e. little is not true. It is true that a great many were transferred - practically everyone who could effectively hold a weapon.

For comparison, for all the years of the war in the Crimea, 13.8% of the population was mobilized into the Red Army. And among the Tatars, 10% went to the service of the invaders. And this despite the fact that from May 1944 to May 1945, the Crimean Tatars were not mobilized in the Red Army, and the rest continued to be sent to the front while the Tatars went to the rear, while the whole people continued to shed blood for the liberation of the Motherland.

That is, to talk about the inhumanity and harshness of deportation in these conditions is simply vile. After all, while the Ivans were dying for another whole year in the war, the Crimean Tatars went to Central Asia, i.e. to the rear. For this reason, there is every reason to believe. that deportation under those conditions was the most humane step possible to save the Crimean Tatar people from physical disappearance. After all, the "damned" Stalin could not expel anyone. It was enough to deal with those who served the Nazis and deserted from the Red Army according to the laws of war. That is, put someone against the wall, and send someone to camps for 10-25 years.

Then what awaited the Crimean Tatars, when 10% of the youngest and strongest men would have been removed from their families for a while or forever? Then extinction would definitely await them, and in those very 20-45 years such a people would cease to exist in reality, and not in the fantasies of anti-Soviet liberals who equate deportation with genocide.

So the Crimean Tatars annually raise this issue in vain. They do not need to speculate on this, opposing their fate to the fate of all the peoples of Russia. This is necessary only for our common enemies, who are only too happy to sow discord on difficult questions stories.

Evidence of the atrocities of the Crimean Tatars during the war

Crimean Tatars in vain raise the topic of their innocence during the Great Patriotic War. He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind in return.
Fragments from a collection of documents on Crimean Tatar collaborationism from a document of the KGB of the USSR referring to those events.

For complicity with the Nazis, they could generally be shot.

May 18 marked the 65th anniversary of the resettlement of Tatars from the territory of Crimea after accusing them of mass desertion and collaboration with the Nazis. Specialist-

the operation took two days and ended by the evening of May 20, 1944. 180 thousand people with all their belongings were taken out of the Crimea and settled in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. The Crimean Tatars were rehabilitated and allowed to return to their homeland only in 1989. Since then, the Crimea has become feverish again, and the descendants of the traitors are demanding more and more compensation for the damage caused to them by the "bloody Stalinist regime." We are talking about the infamous fact of our history with Andrei GONCHAROV, Academician, Doctor of Historical Sciences.

Andrei Pavlovich, this year marks the 65th anniversary of the so-called Stalinist deportation of the Crimean Tatars and other peoples. What do you think prompted the leadership of the USSR to take this step in 1944?

I'm already tired of proving that these were completely logical and fair actions in relation to traitors to the Motherland and fascist henchmen. At the same time, the humanism of the Soviet government in relation to the bandits who faithfully served the Fuhrer should be noted.

According to the laws of wartime, according to Article 193-22 of the then Criminal Code of the RSFSR, our command had every right to shoot, of course, not the entire people, but the entire male population of the so-called Crimean Tatars for desertion and treason!

- Well, that's too much!

The facts show that practically the entire Crimean Tatar population of military age took the side of Nazi Germany. As soon as the front approached the Crimea, the vast majority of the population began to go over to the side of the enemy.

There are amazing, vividly commenting on those events data. So, in the purely Crimean Tatar village of Koush, 130 people were drafted into the Red Army, of which 122 returned home after the arrival of the Germans. In the village of Beshui

98 called back 92 people. A perfect example of "patriotism", isn't it? So what are you going to do with them?

Crimean Tatars - sworn brothers of the German people

And what were the goals of the Tatar population of Crimea? It’s not just that they suddenly became traitors to the Motherland, and even at such a terrible hour for the country.

This is clearly stated in one document of those years.

In May 1943, one of the oldest Crimean Tatar nationalists Amet Ozenbashly drafted a memorandum addressed to Hitler, in which he outlined the following program of cooperation between Germany and the Crimean Tatars:

1. Creation of the Tatar state in the Crimea under the protectorate of Germany. 2. Creation on the basis of battalions of "noise" and other police units of the Tatar national army. 3. Return to Crimea of ​​all Tatars from Turkey, Bulgaria and other states; “cleansing” of Crimea from other nationalities. 4. Arming the entire Tatar population, including the very old, until the final victory over the Bolsheviks. 5. Guardianship of Germany over the Tatar state until it can "stand on its feet."

I hope everything is clear? Noise Battalions are auxiliary police formations.

Here are some more excerpts from one documentary to complete the picture - congratulations from the members of the Simferopol Muslim Committee to Hitler on his birthday on April 20

“To the liberator of the oppressed peoples, to the faithful son of the German people, Adolf Hitler.

We Muslims, with the advent of the valiant sons of Great Germany, from the very first days, with your blessing and in memory of our long-term friendship, became shoulder to shoulder with the German people, took up arms and swore, ready to fight to the last drop of blood for the universal ideas put forward by you - the destruction of the red Jewish-Bolshevik plague without a trace and to the end ...

On the day of your glorious anniversary, we send you our heartfelt greetings and wishes, we wish you many years of fruitful life for the joy of your people, to us, Crimean Muslims and Muslims of the East.

Similar glorifications of the fascist monsters are repeated in abundance in the then national media. For example, Azat Krym (Free Crimea), which was published from January 11, 1942 until the very end of the occupation, wrote on March 20, 1943:

“To the great Hitler - the liberator of all peoples and religions - we Tatars give our word to fight the herd of Jews and Bolsheviks together with the German soldiers in the same ranks! God bless you, our great Herr Hitler!"

- Andrei Pavlovich, but this is pure treason to the Motherland?

Of course. And what began after the occupation of the Crimea by the Germans does not lend itself to common sense at all! The Tatar-Crimean traitors, organized by the Nazis into numerous detachments, are conducting a real hunt for partisans. They destroy their bases, track down and crack down on the underground, hunt for Jews and hand over to the SS authorities. Here is what the field marshal writes Erich von Manstein: “The majority of the Tatar population of Crimea was very friendly towards us. We even managed to form armed self-defense companies from the Tatars, the task of which was to protect their villages from attacks by partisans hiding in the Yaila mountains. The reason why a powerful partisan movement unfolded in Crimea from the very beginning, which gave us a lot of trouble, was that among the population of Crimea, in addition to Tatars and other small national groups, there were still many Russians.

One can cite thousands of examples of the atrocities of the Crimean Tatars. And sometimes even the Germans and Italians, who seized the Crimea, were forced to slow down their exorbitant, even for the Nazis, cruelty. Crimeans captured and burned alive Soviet paratroopers and partisans. There are documents confirming these facts. So, in the Sudak region in 1942, a reconnaissance landing force of the Red Army was liquidated by the self-defense group of the Tatars, while 12 Soviet paratroopers were caught and burned alive by the self-defenders.

On February 4, 1943, Crimean Tatar volunteers from the villages of Beshui and Koush captured four partisans from the detachment Mukovnina. The partisans were stabbed with bayonets, laid on fires and burned. The corpse of a Kazan Tatar was especially disfigured Kiyamova, whom the punishers apparently mistook for their fellow countryman. That is, a traitor in their fight against the Red Army.

Here is a quote from the memorandum of the deputy head of the special department of the Central Headquarters partisan movement Popova dated July 25, 1942:

“Participants of the partisan movement in the Crimea were living witnesses of the massacres of the Tatar volunteers and their owners over the captured sick and wounded partisans (murders, burning of the sick and wounded). In a number of cases, the Tatars were more merciless and more professional than the fascist executioners.

The tactic of demining roads is well known, when, under Crimean Tatar supervision, a crowd of prisoners was forced to comb minefields. Can you imagine this horror?

- Did the Crimean Tatars themselves participate in the partisan struggle?

Just don't laugh: on June 1, 1943, a partisan underground of 262 people, including six Crimean Tatars, was operating in the Crimea.

There is not much to add here. Oh yes, here's an amazing fact. After the defeat of the 6th german army Paulus near Stalingrad, the Feodosia Muslim Committee collected one million rubles from the Tatars to help the German army. Well, like ordinary Soviet people who gave their last pennies for the construction of tanks and aircraft.

True, it should be said that with the onset Soviet army Crimean Tatars realized that inevitable retribution could not be avoided, and in February-March 1944 they began to join partisan detachments. Moreover, entire detachments of punishers and concentration camp guards tried to attach themselves to our heroes. Another part fled with the Germans and for some time was used by the SS troops in Hungary and France.

The resettlement of peoples was invented in the USA

“But still, deporting an entire nation is cruel. There were also many innocent people there.

I am by no means a supporter of Stalinism. In my family, as in many families in Russia, there are victims of repression. But then there was a war. Leaving behind 200,000 people who are ready to betray at any moment is criminal! Moreover, the deportation of peoples on a national basis is by no means the know-how of the Stalinist regime, as the perestroika "democrats" assured us. During the same World War II, only earlier - in 1941, a couple of months after Pearl Harbor, the Americans quite calmly deported to the interior of the country and put about 200 thousand of their citizens of Japanese, German and Italian origin in concentration camps. The Japanese were charged, you know what? The fact that they plant flower beds in California specifically next to military facilities in order to declassify them, and in Hawaii they cut down sugar cane in a special way, in the form of giant arrows directed towards US air bases, to signal Japanese pilots! A couple of months ago there were hearings in the US Congress, where the children of repressed American citizens of German and Italian origin spoke. So there one woman told, they say, her father sat down for many years just because he said: under Hitler, good roads were built in Germany! By the way, in those same years there was a generally insane practice of capturing the Japanese by the Americans. En masse, by families throughout Latin America. They were placed in concentration camps and kept for a future possible exchange for American prisoners of war.

There was such a case. Expecting a Japanese attack on the Aleutian Islands,

In 1941, the Americans considered the Eskimos unreliable and immediately took out all - 400 with a small number of innocent Aborigines to the Kansas desert. And this despite the fact that the foot of the aggressors did not set foot on the territory of the United States at all! And in our version? When the Crimean Tatars openly sided with the enemy, what would you order to do with them?

As for the many times repeated lies about the incredible cruelty of the Red Army during the deportation itself, look at the documents. It's simple, the archives are open. Just imagine: there is a war, part of the country has been captured by the enemy, the food situation is terrible. And at the same time, each deportee was entitled to hot food on the road,

500 grams of bread a day, meat, fish, fats. By order of Stalin, the Crimean Tatars were allowed to take with them up to 500 kg of property for each adult! Certificates were issued for other abandoned property, according to which an equivalent property was issued at the place of arrival in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In addition, each family was given a significant interest-free loan for seven years for the arrangement.

- Stalin, it turns out you, was almost a benefactor for the Crimean Tatars.

Yes, they should pray for him! He saved them from the righteous popular anger, from pogroms. Just imagine: during the German occupation, the Tatar police units gathered more than 50,000 Russian residents of Crimea to be deported to Germany! Plus the inhuman atrocities that they did against their neighbors. What would Crimean front-line soldiers who returned from Berlin in 1945 do with them for this - fathers, brothers and sons of Soviet citizens torn to pieces by them, given into slavery ?! There would be nothing left of the Crimean Tatars.

By the way, it should be noted that the Crimean Tatars carry their name "Tatars" by misunderstanding. In fact, they have nothing in common ethnically with historical Tatars or Tatar-Mongols.

Hitler wanted to move the Baltic states to Siberia

Andrey Pavlovich, there is one more date this year. In March 1949, Stalin deported hundreds of thousands of Balts to Siberia.

Where are the hundreds of thousands from? You just listened to NATO propaganda. 60 years ago, 20,173 people were deported from Estonia, 31,917 people from Lithuania, 42,149 people from Latvia. These NKVD-NKGB archives have long been in the public domain. At the same time, during the Khrushchev thaw in 1959, all the Balts, unlike the Crimean Tatars, were allowed to return home.

Now let's find out who these people were and why they were expelled. The so-called forest brothers and members of their families were deported. And they were expelled not because they collaborated with the Nazis, it seemed to be forgiven them, but for participation in gangs that remained on the territory of the Baltic states after the defeat of the German troops. During the period from 1945 to 1949, these "forest brothers" were killed: in Lithuania - 25,108, in Latvia - 4780, in Estonia - 891 people.

- I read that during the years of the war in the Baltic States, following the example of Germany, almost all Jews were destroyed.

And not by the hands of the SS, but by the local police. According to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied eastern regions, a total of about 120 thousand Jews.

- Why did they curry favor with the Germans?

They hoped that Hitler would allow them to create their own states. Many rabid nationalists still believe that this would have happened if not for " Soviet occupation» in 1944. But Germany's plans for the Baltics were completely different. Many documents on this subject have been published in a recently published book. Igor Pykhalov Why did Stalin evict peoples? Thus, in Berlin, at a meeting on Germanization in the Baltic countries, it was decided: “The majority of the population is not suitable for Germanization. The racially undesirable parts of the population are to be deported to Western Siberia". In Estonia, it was supposed to leave 50 percent of the population, in Lithuania and Latvia - 30 percent each. In return, it was supposed to resettle Wehrmacht veterans in the Baltic states.

Slowly, this policy has already begun to be implemented. By November 1, 1943, 35 thousand German colonists already lived in the Baltic states. And instead of Siberia, 300 thousand Balts, mostly women from 17 to 40 years old, were sent to German labor camps.

It turns out that the Baltic republics, following the Crimean Tatars, should be grateful to Stalin. If Hitler got them, farms would still be built in the depths of the Siberian ores.

That's it. I hope the truth will someday reach the Baltics, everything is slowly reaching them. And then people will throw rotten tomatoes at the Estonian SS veterans marching in the center of Tallinn, to whom the “bloody tyrant” Stalin, out of his kindness, left his life.