17: Reforms, Recentralization, Dissidence: 1950s-1970s
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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Crimean Tatars, Crimean Hanut, Crimea, and Crimea
Stalin deported ethnic Germans for the first time on mass, with such organization and such skill that the Germans themselves were envious. 180,014 people identified as Crimean Tatars, men, women, and children were all forcibly deported, most of them too, as Bekistan. On the logic that the entire Crimean Tatar people had collaborated with Nazi Germany. And this logic, this totalizing logic, was applied also to Crimean Tatars who returned from the front. The Soviet Union was able to defend itself because of American economic aid.
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