Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin is well aware of Byrd's key role in this fall's treaty debate and agreed to a private meeting between him and Brezhnev, who is vacationing in the Crimea. Byrd is expected to tell the Soviet leader that any further pronouncements like Gromyko's will only harden resistance to the treaty in the Senate. Brezhnev is likely to signal his understanding that it might be better to ease off until the Senate acts. But Western diplomats warned that if Byrd intends to lobby the Soviet leader for amendments that might make the treaty more acceptable...
...Tartars. They are a simple people without education. They could not afford to buy houses; they sleep under the open sky. They want to work in agriculture and they have tried, but they cannot work on the farms because they are not allowed. The Crimean Tartars were brought from Crimea in 1944--it was a Stalin decision. In one day in 1944 the whole population of Crimean Tartars was brought from Crimea. They were brought in railway cars to Uzbekistan. On the way half of them died. Dead people lay near those not yet dead...
Today, they cannot return to the Crimea. We don't understand why the Soviets have such a policy. It is discriminative and hundreds of people have joined the great struggle. One man had a cannister of oil and he burned himself. When he was brought to the hospital, he said everyone must do this, and died. His name was Usmanov. Some thousands of Crimeans came to Crimea to attend his funeral and the officials could not disperse them. It was a great demonstration...
Recently the Soviet Government decided that 700 Crimean Tartars must be expelled from the Crimea and today bulldozers came, and people watched the Tartars leaving. Then their houses were levelled by the bulldozers. People were deported in open trucks from Crimea. This is only one example, but it is very dramatic...
Many people know about the problem, but we don't know why our government does not want Crimean Tarta in Crimea. Crimea is a place of tourism and hotels for the political elite and these people are not good for the government. They want these Tartars to live in Uzbekistan, far from the government...