#tartars — Public Fediverse posts
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82 years ago,on May 18, 1944, Russian special forces deported Crimean Tatars from their homes by force, without warning. Families were given just minutes to pack.At least 200,000 people (most of them women,children and the elderly) were taken by cattle trains to Central Asia and Siberia.
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3mm4xpd557c2u
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‘Does he know anything?’: Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev on Trump’s plans to legitimise Russian annexation - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/does-he-know-anything-crimean-tatar-leader-mustafa-dzhemilev-on-trumps-plans-to-legitimise-russian-annexation "Exiled Soviet-era dissident tells the Guardian that for the US to turn its back on the territory would be ‘shameful’" I doubt trump even knows who #tartars are... [or even the tatars...]
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Mobilizing the Tartars to liberate Ukraine https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/10/mobilizing-the-tartars-to-liberate-ukraine_6131962_4.html
"On September 6, the Ukrainian Parliament approved, by 338 votes to 21, the appointment of Rustem Umerov as Defense Minister. The fact that he is the only Muslim in such a position on the European continent – appointed, moreover, by a Jewish president – illustrates yet again the deeply modern character of Ukrainian nationalism, which transcends community identities".
#Ukraine #Tartars #Crimea #nationalism #PutinMustLose -
That present-day #Ukraine is part of #Europe, historically and culturally, is an indisputable fact, though a slightly different case could be made about #Crimea* and its genesis regarding the #Mongolian #GoldenHorde* (see my other thread, though that came only shortly after the #Varangians.)
*https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110295373540489077
If you believe the founding history alternative that the #Crimean #Tartars...
