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Crimea and Crimea's Crimean Tatars
The Crimean Tatas made up about 80% of the local population in Crimea. For a long time they were sort of a big pain really for Moscow but also for the Polish-dithwanyan Commonwealth which ruled what is now western Ukraine at the time. The genocide itself probably started in the 1860s under Alexander the second but it really peaked with Stalin deporting up to 200,000 Crimean Tatas to Uzbekistan and elsewhere. They weren't allowed to return until right at the end of the of the Soviet Union so Gorbachev initially blocked their their return to Crimea until 1989. Now just 13% of the population are our Crimean Tatar but they're an important population
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