Knowing that the vote would be rigged. they refused to provide the propaganda exercise with any credibility. and they and many other ethnic groups there in Crimea urged a boycott and undertook that boycott. Unfortunately. their current struggle is only the latest chapter in their long history of great suffering and very brave perseverance. Many times in the past. they have been subjected to mass deportation and assaults. with great loss of life. The most terrible was Stalins mass deportation of the Muslim Tatar population to Central Asia in 1944. Over halfover halfof the men. women. and children died in what only can be called a genocidal process. And those that survived the privations found themselves in an alien world. forced to begin their lives again in great hardship.
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