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38. The Tartars are what, 10% of the population?

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 03:25 PM

Feb 2014

You're right about the SSR. It was part of Russia during the Russian Empire, but I didn't realize they'd been spun off into their own SSR in 1921.

The fact that the Tartars are such a small minority in Crimea means that there won't be a Tartar state. If Crimea were to secede from Ukraine, it would be politically dominated by its ethnically Russian majority.

Those ethnic Russians would ultimately decide an independent Crimea's fate. The question for them would simply be: "Do the advantages of independence outweigh our ethnic and historical loyalties to Russia?" It will be interesting to see which side they come down on.

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