Russian securitization of memory and multiple anxieties
Year: 2024

As an indigenous Muslim Turkic nation of Crimea, Crimean Tatars have been caught in the middle of memory wars between Russia and the West. While the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia revived the 1944 Deportation trauma of the Crimean Tatars, chronic anxieties of losing Crimean Tatar authentic identity and being condemned for radicalism and Nazi collaboration led the Crimean Tatar diaspora to actively conduct cultural diplomacy. Haytarma is a documentary film made by the Crimean Tatar diaspora