The forgotten genocide. Extermination of the Crimean Tatars
Journal: Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej
Year: 2025

The present study was motivated by the authors’ intention to analyse the actions of the USSR authorities in 1944 in Crimea against the local Tatar population. The central thesis of the study is that these actions can be classified as genocide. The study’s starting point is an analysis of the concept of R. Lemkin, who was the first to use the term “genocide”, describing its techniques, means, goals and causes. It is also noted that, in the subsequent period, there emerged a number of concepts rel