Un episodio poco conosciuto degli anni della seconda guerra mondiale: l’eccidio dei pugliesi di Crimea (1942-1945).
Journal: Università del Salento
Year: 2015

In the mid-nineteenth century, a community of sailors and farmers of Puglia emigrated to the shores of the Black Sea. They settled on the Strait of Kerch, a crucial trading node between the Russian Empire and the Mediterranean. The history of this small community is intertwined with Soviet Communism. Many of the Apulian immigrants were accused of collaboration with Fascism and they were arrested, tortured and deported to the gulag in Siberia. Most of them died because of hunger and hardship cold