Ukrainians deported from Poland in 1944 recall mass killings, explain paths to historical reconciliation
The occupation of Eastern Europe in 1944–1945 by the Red Army and the establishment of communist regimes in…
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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 1)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and…
Russia still hiding Stalin’s genocidal crimes against Finns and Norwegians after 80 years
One of the most obscure aspects of Stalin’s rule was his deportation of Finns and Norwegians in 1940…
Soviet-era repression, deportation & famine wiped out a third of Ukraine’s population
Read also: Austrian engineer captures the horror of the Holodomor in 1932-33 …
‘Crimean Tatar tragedy of 1944 being repeated’ and with more damaging effect, Dzhemilev says
Seventy-six years ago on May 18, Stalin ordered the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homelands to…
Apakay – a song for the Crimean Tatars deported by Stalin
On 18 May 1944, Stalin deported all the indigenous population of Crimea, more than 230,000 Crimean Tatars, from…
76 years after deportation, Crimean Tatars are again being erased from history in Crimea
Only in 1989 did the USSR condemn the deportation, after which the indigenous people of Crimea started returning…
Sürgünlik: Remembering Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944
On May 10, 1944, Lavrentiy Beria, the notorious chief of the NKVD (Soviet security and secret police), recommended…
46 Crimean Tatar organizations call for end to Russian occupation of their homeland
Meeting in Ankara, representatives of 46 Crimean Tatar organizations said that the only way to end human rights…
Experts: UN report understates Moscow’s effort to Russify occupied Crimea
Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea…
75 years after deportation, Moscow’s genocide of the Crimean Tatars continues
On May 18, Crimean Tatars and their supporters around the world marked the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation…
Latvian Saeima becomes first foreign parliament to recognize genocide of the Crimean Tatars
Two days ago, the Latvian Saeima became the first foreign parliament to adopt a resolution recognizing Soviet treatment…
Since Anschluss, Moscow engaging in slow-motion deportation of Crimean Tatars, Kashapov says
When Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars in 1944, he loaded all of them on trains in the course…
It matters profoundly what ‘Crimean Tatars’ are called, Belitser says
Moscow has made a concerted effort to present the Crimean Tatars as simply a branch of Tatars who…
Crimea’s Russians who backed Anschluss now turning against Moscow, Vasiliyev says
Many ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before the Anschluss considered themselves more Russian than even those in…
Russia’s deportation of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars from occupied Crimea a “neo-imperial policy tool” – report
In February 2014, Russia started a military operation to occupy and annex a part Ukraine - the Crimean…
Seven messages from Mustafa Dzhemilev on his 75th Birthday
Mustafa Dzhemilev, who has been fighting for the rights of the Crimean Tatar nation for six decades against…
Stalin deported 100,000 Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan in October 1947
Seventy-one years ago this week, Stalin deported tens of thousands of Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan, an action…
Russians moving into occupied Crimea now form one-fifth of its population
Since the Russian occupation of Crimea began four years ago, the combination of its longtime residents being forced…
‘The disappeared’ – the hidden part of Russia’s hybrid deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Today as they have done every August 30, the International Day for Remembering Those Who Have Disappeared, Crimean…