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Monday, 17 May 2010 16:01

 Deportation  anniversary - Simferopol

 

Please read about what was happening on May 18-th  1944 here

 

  May 18, 2007 marks the 63rd anniversary of a grave tragedy. Crimean Tatars in their entirety were deported from their peninsular homeland under Stalin’s orders Deportation was carried out by the armed NKVD on August 14, 1944 the State Defense Committee (GKO) authorized the settlement of 51,000 new migrants in 17,000 empty collective farms At the 20th Communist Party Congress in February 24-25, 1956, Khrushchev condemned Stalin’s crimes in his famous [secret] speech that led to the abolishment of special settlement camps throughout the Soviet Union. A special [unpublished] decree issued on April 28, 1956 the Presidium of Supreme Soviet (Ukaz 136/142) officially released the Crimean Tatars from special settlement camps. The majority of the surviving deportees ended up in highly regimented strict special settlement camps (spetsposolonets) After Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, Nikita Khrushchev came to power and launched a de-Stalinization campaign.

 

Thanks to Sergei Svetlitsky, Editor, Maupictures Agency for these pictures

 
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