Word: crimeans
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...Stalin's expulsions were the Koreans who peopled the Soviet Far East. In 1937 they were herded to the snow-blown steppes of Kazakhstan to prevent them from "collaborating" with the Japanese. Later Stalin deemed the Volga Germans "saboteurs and spies" and in 1941 banished them to Siberia. The Crimean Tatars followed in 1944. Other exiled nationalities included the Kalmucks, Chechens, Ingush and the Balkars. By the 1960s, some of these groups had been rehabilitated and given back their autonomous regions. But "lost" peoples remain, among them the Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks...
...intervening. Given the resentments caused by the army's brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, the central government does not dare ask the agitated Georgians to return Turkish villages to the Meskhetians. Moscow has ordered up a plan for repatriating the Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans, but nothing has been done...
...Alexander's brother Nicholas I who took over northern Armenia from Persia in 1828, then invaded the Balkans to make the Turks recognize him as the protector of all Christians. The British and French joined in resisting that demand in the bloody stalemate of the Crimean War (1853-56). Resisted in the West, the succeeding Czar Alexander II looked east. He was repeatedly urged in this direction by Prussia's Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. "Russia has nothing to do in the West," Bismarck once declared. "There she can only catch nihilism and other diseases. Her mission is in Asia. There...