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225. The discussions of Crimea which conveniently fail to mention the mass deportation of the indigenous

Tatar population by the USSR in the 1940's demonstrated to me the lack of either knowledge or honesty on the part of those defending the Russian invasion of Crimea. Over and over again they said 'it is an ethic Russian majority in Crimea' but never did they point out that the majority was attained by a forced mass relocation to distant areas of hundreds of thousands of Tartar people, a Muslim people that have been in Crimea for hundreds of years. Shoved onto boxcars with no notice and their property coopted by that famous Russian majority who swept in to take the gravy.
One of the largest and swiftest forced relocations in the history of the world. But somehow just not mentioned even when touting the ethnic make up of modern Crimea.
It was a crime against humanity, a collective punishment and a theft on a massive scale. 'It has always been Russian majority in Crimea. Always'.