Crimean Tatars Mark Painful Anniversary of Soviet Atrocities
May 18 marks a painful anniversary for Crimea’s Tatars, descendants of nearly 200,000 victims of a mass deportation by Soviet authorities over a three-day period in 1944. Among those sent to Uzbekistan and Siberia were the grandparents of actor Akhtem Seitablayev, activist Alim Aliev, and a member of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, Nedim Useinow. They shared their stories with reporter Lesia Bakalets in Warsaw.
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