The Boston Globe, July 30th, 1987
The official response to the request by Crimean Tatars that they be allowed to return to the homeland from which they were banished 40 years ago is being watched carefully outside the Soviet Union. It may be the signal of a fundamental change in Soviet policy. During the summer of 1944, some 400,000 Tatars were forced from their homes in the Crimea and deported to Central Asia. Stalin's regime charged that the Tatars had collaborated with the German army during its occupation of the Crimea. As many as 100,000 Tatars died en route or in resettlement camps. Although Stalin's "traitor nation" cha...
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