Deportation of the Crimean Tatars

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title: Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
text: The deportation of the Crimean Tatars or the Sürgünlik ('exile') was the ethnic cleansing and the cultural genocide of at least 191,044 Crimean Tatars that was carried out by Soviet Union authorities from 18 to 20 May 1944, supervised by Lavrentiy Beria, chief of Soviet state security and the secret police, and ordered by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Within those three days, the NKVD used cattle trains to deport the Crimean Tatars, even Soviet Communist Party members and Red Army members, fr
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description: 1944 Soviet ethnic cleansing and genocide
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars
date created: 2007-03-31T16:04:59Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T16:13:38Z
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