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...position of the Crimean 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...
Stalin said they were collaborating with the Germans, but this is not true. Some were, but some from every republic were collaborating. Many Crimean Tartars were fighting against the Germans and died fighting the Germans. They were not different from any other people...
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...
...demands of dissenting national groups such as the Crimean Tartars (deported by Stalin to Siberia and who wish to return to their homeland), or the Jews and Volga Germans (who wish to emigrate to Israel or Germany), do not pose an automatic ideological challenge--though when linked to the protest of intellectuals they can form a serious challenge. Perhaps most potentially disturbing is the emergence of a genuine workers' movement agitating for independent trade union activity with a potential mass appeal. This explains why the authorities have clamped down so heavily on Vladimir Klebanov and his numerically small group...
...attitude to the Sudan coup caused the gap between me and the Soviet leaders to widen. Throughout July, August, and September, all I could receive in answer to my messages [inquiring about arms deliveries] was that [the leaders] were away in their Crimean summer resort...