The Crimean Tatars had been fighting the Slavs for centuries, against the Cossacks and Czarist Russia. After several massacres under the Tsars, they finally stopped capturing Russians as Ottoman slaves. They to fight for the Germans during World War II and kill the partisans, which led Stalin to send them on a one-way trip to Central Asia.
Their deportation during the Soviet period neither meant that most of them died, nor that all the blame lay with the Soviets, nor that the group itself was blameless.
In fact, this was not the only ethnic group to suffer this fate during the Soviet period, as theTurks and the Koreans were also sent to Central Asia.
Lack of consensus among demographers on the number of casualties in this matter
In addition, many of the reports were issued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which made it easier to use Soviet administrative documents, but also led to the possibility that the authors would not be corrected if they wished to smear the Soviet Union.
The Crimean Tatars had been fighting the Slavs for centuries, against the Cossacks and Czarist Russia. After several massacres under the Tsars, they finally stopped capturing Russians as Ottoman slaves. They to fight for the Germans during World War II and kill the partisans, which led Stalin to send them on a one-way trip to Central Asia.
Their deportation during the Soviet period neither meant that most of them died, nor that all the blame lay with the Soviets, nor that the group itself was blameless.
In fact, this was not the only ethnic group to suffer this fate during the Soviet period, as theTurks and the Koreans were also sent to Central Asia.
Do you have any statistics, how many % died during the deportation? If I understand correctly, you say less than 50%.
Yes, that was kinda my point.
Crimean activists believe that 46 percent of the population died, and the KGB countered this by declaring that only 22 percent of Crimeans died.
https://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/u/ussr/ussr.919/usssr919full.pdf
Lack of consensus among demographers on the number of casualties in this matter
In addition, many of the reports were issued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which made it easier to use Soviet administrative documents, but also led to the possibility that the authors would not be corrected if they wished to smear the Soviet Union.