Memories and stories of historians about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars

They were called traitors and deprived of the Motherland. 80 years ago, the Soviet authorities began an operation to forcibly evict the Crimean Tatars from their historical land – the Crimean Peninsula. People were given a few minutes to assemble and were sent in freight car echelons to foreign countries: Uzbekistan, Siberia, and the Urals. It took the Crimean Tatars half a century to win back the right to live on their land. But in 2014, Crimea was occupied by the same enemy. Currently, Ukraine and the world are commemorating the memory of the Crimeans – victims of the deportation of 1944.