Crimean Tatars

Witness History: Archive 2011 - Een podcast door BBC World Service

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In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army. Although the Muslim minority had lived in the region for centuries they were ordered out by Stalin.Hundreds of thousands of people, mainly women and children, were put on trains and sent to Uzbekistan.Photo: Dilara Aslanovna Baganovna's family before deportation.

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