Crimea

As pertaining to Crimean Tatars. Since many pro-Kremlin "tankies" also support the currently capitalist, anti-communist Russian Federation, there will be topics covering Crimea under Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.

## **Crimea**

* “Statement by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center on the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples” https://ctrcenter.org/en/news/1224-statement-by-the-crimean-tatar-resource-center-on-the-occasion-of-the-international-day-of-the-world-s-indigenous-peoples [EN]
* “Crimea in the Dark: Silencing Dissent” by Amnesty International https://www.amnestyusa.org/files/crimean\_briefing\_the\_final\_and\_formated.pdf [PDF, 612kb, EN]
* “Historical Photo Fake: Crimean Tatars in SS Division” http://web.archive.org/web/20150929211748/https://www.stopfake.org/en/historical-photo-fake-crimean-tatars-in-ss-division/
* “Crimean Tatars – tragic past and uncertain present” by David Marples and David F. Duke https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/who-are-crimean-tatars-tragic-past-and-uncertain-present/ [EN]
* “Why we should write about the Crimean Tatars” by Maxim Edwards https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/why-we-should-write-about-the-crimean-tatars/ [EN]
* “Anarchist solidarity to Crimean Tatars” http://avtonomia.net/2016/05/18/anarchist-solidarity-crimean-tatars/ [UK, RU, EN]
* “Punitive Psychiatry against Crimean Tatar leader for insisting Russia must leave Crimea“ by Halya Coynash http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1468754908 [EN]
* “בוך באַשרײַבט טאָג־טעגלעך לעבן פֿון אַ כּמעט פֿאַרטיליקטער ייִדישער עדה“ by יואל מאַטוועיעו https://forward.com/yiddish/459329/book-describes-daily-life-of-a-nearly-wiped-out-jewish-community/ [YI]

### **Research Articles**

* “The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations” by Noam Lupu and Leonid Peisakhin https://sci-hub.st/10.1111/ajps.12327 [PDF, 944kb, EN]; https://www.noamlupu.com/Lupu\_Peisakhin\_Crimea.pdf [PDF, 945kb, EN]

### **News Articles**

* “Власник ATR Ленур Іслямов: Вимкнення кримськотатарського каналу на руку Путіну” by Наталія Данькова https://detector.media/rinok/article/174067/2020-01-21-vlasnik-atr-lenur-islyamov-vimknennya-krimskotatarskogo-kanalu-na-ruku-putinu/
* “Crimean Tatar TV silenced, searches and arrests continue” by Halya Coynash http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1427847775
* “Crimean Tatar TV ATR on brink of closing because Ukraine cuts funding” by Halya Coynash http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1579653638
* “Ukraine warned that abandoning Crimean Tatar TV ATR means giving up Crimea to Russia” http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1581457318
* “Ukraine will give Crimea away forever if it starts selling water to its Russian occupiers” by Halya Coynash http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1580825984
* “One death, four political prisoners in Russia’s war against the Crimean Tatar Mejlis” by Halya Coynash http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1534284187
* “Tatar Muslims face increasing intimidation in Crimea” by Luke Coffey https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/tatar-muslims-face-increasing-intimidation-in-crimea-19321 (Turkish state-owned media)
* “Chief Rabbi of Ukraine: The world must not ignore the suffering of the Crimean Tatars the way it once ignored ours” http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1463879450
* “Crimean Tatar Mejlis will not register as a ‘civic organization’” http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1413898681
* “’Judge’ in Soviet-style trial of Crimean Tatar leader is wanted by Ukraine for treason” http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1496872610
* “Dispatches: Kremlin Mopping Up the Remaining Dissenters in Crimea” by Tanya Lokshina https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/15/dispatches-kremlin-mopping-remaining-dissenters-crimea
* “Ultimatum to Crimea’s Muslims: Three months to hand over banned Islamic texts” http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Ultimatum-to-Crimea%e2%80%99s-Muslims:-Three-months-to-hand-over-banned-Islamic-texts-32436.html
* “Tatars in Crimea protest against vote to join Russia” https://www.euronews.com/2014/03/14/tatars-in-crimea-protest-against-vote-to-join-russia
* “Crimean Tatars Call On International Community To Support Their Right To Self-Determination” https://unpo.org/article/16898
* Crimean Muslims face 15-year Sentences for Invented ‘Terrorism’ http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1463616338
* “Crimean Tatars name conditions for restoring power supply to Crimea” http://web.archive.org/web/20151129231950/http://uatoday.tv/society/crimea-542286.html
* “Crimea's Tatars flee for Ukraine far west” http://web.archive.org/web/20140428002233/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/crimea-s-tatars-flee-for/1046148.html
* “Russia’s Attack on Crimean Tatar Leader nears Lawless Conclusion” by Halya Coynash http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1451167896
* “Crimean Tatars Call On International Community To Support Their Right To Self-Determination” https://unpo.org/article/16898
* “The Deaths & Disappearances in Crimea Putin Lied About” by Halya Coynash http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1452557884 [EN]
* “Crimean Tatars Deported by Stalin Oppose Putin in Ukraine” by Henry Meyer and Kateryna Choursina https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-02-27/crimean-tatars-deported-by-stalin-rally-against-putin-in-crimea [EN]
* “Crimean court bans Tatar ruling body in blow to minority” https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ukraine-crisis-crimea-tatars/crimean-court-bans-tatar-ruling-body-in-blow-to-minority-idUKKCN0XN1XW [EN]
* “Crimea's Tatars fear the worst as it prepares for referendum” by Harriet Salem https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/13/crimea-tatars-fear-worst-prepares-referendum [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* “Russian authorities 'imprisoning Crimean Tatars in psychiatric hospitals'” by Madeline Roache https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/28/russian-authorities-imprisoning-crimean-tatars-in-psychiatric-hospitals [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)

### **Blog Posts**

* “Crimean Gypsies” http://riowang.blogspot.com/2014/06/crimean-gypsies.html [EN]

### **Encyclopedia**

* “Deportation of the Crimean Tatars” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation\_of\_the\_Crimean\_Tatars [EN]

### **Books**

* “Beyond memory: The Crimean Tatars’ deportation and return” by Greta Lynn Uehling http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=49DD562BB2BA1C227EC0FB5A8EAD9B07 [PDF, 3MB, EN]

### **Videos**

* “Why did Khrushchev give Crimea to Ukraine? #ussr, #khrushchev, #crimea” by USHANKA SHOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU0iQLfF8\_I [19:42, EN] (Soviet Ukranian immigrated to USA)
* “WHO ARE THE CRIMEAN TATARS. ENGLISH” uploaded by Rustern Irsay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BFf9oCOVQQ [26:38, EN]
* “Coming Back: A history of Crimea's Tatars - Al Jazeera World” uploaded by Al Jazeera English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY9SI8Xc4jw [45:16, EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “Crimea: March of the Tatars” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lON40K4WCbM [10:30, EN] uploaded by VICE News
* “Crimean Tatars: Coming Back | Al Jazeera World” uploaded by Al Jazeera English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRqUZpYkQjM [44:44, EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “Crimea’s Muslim Tatars allege systematic Russian oppression” uploaded by Al Jazeera English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H6kaMYZR7E [2:41, EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* “Tatar discrimination in Ukraine” uploaded by Al Jazeera English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNAJjMOxs3I [2:37, EN] (Qatari state-owned media with anti-Saudi geopolitics)
* "Origins of the Crimean Crisis - Cold War DOCUMENTARY" uploaded by The Cold War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eVr3RqnCRA [15:51, EN SUB, EN]

### **Websites**

* “Крымскотатарский Ресурсный Центр” https://ctrcenter.org/ [TT, RU, UK, EN]
* “Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group” http://khpg.org/ [RU, UK, EN]

### **Notes**

* While many of the historic crimes were committed during Soviet era, there is a overlap of Stalin apologists in Marxist-Leninist circles and “oppose the west, support the rest” anti-USA far-right reactionaries thus contemporary sources about Tatar persecution under both Ukraine and Russian Federation as continuum from Imperial Russia and USSR is needed
* Some collaborated with fascist Germany but most did not.
* Many were glad at first from the Red Army liberating Crimea from germany
* 20,000 troops sent to punish the entire group for the crimes of a small group
* The NKVD struck all villages at once, quickly forced them out of their homes and deported even those who fought in the front and won awards etc. A third died in the process. People were shocked and didn’t believe that stalin would do this
* Stalin did the same thing to Chechens and kelmiks almost a million people

* Roma (Gypsy) communities that were integrated with Tatars were also deported by the Soviets: “On 18 May 1944 the Soviet authorities, on returning to the Crimea, also composed the trains of the Tatars to be deported based on the German lists, thus including the Gypsies listed as Tatars.”
* “In 1944 Crimean Tatar speaking Gypsies were also deported...They were perceived as Gypsies, which is why they were predetermined for annihilation from the Nazis during World War II but, according to Soviet statistics, they were defined as Tatars and so they were deported by the Soviet authorities, alongside the Crimean Tatars..." from “Gypsies in Central Asia and the Caucasus” by Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov
* By adopting the new language law, Ukraine has implicitly abandoned the idea of returning Crimea