Heartbeat of Crimean Tatars that night turned into the sound of freight train wheels, taking the nation from its homeland, condemning to death and oblivion. It took only three days to take around 200 thousand people thousands kilometers away. Half of them died during this trip. And those little, who managed to survive were scattered to different regions of Middle Asia.
Just in three days Stalin regime ordered to the whole nation to stop its existence, forget its roots and give-up their future. Only by the end of the 20th century, after country of executioners broke up, Crimean Tatars were able to return to their homes, to start all over again.
Today, as 70 years ago, resurgent tyrant wants to destroy the rights of the Crimean Tatar people to their own identity, trying once again to deceive the whole world and destroy the long-suffering people. In Crimea it is again forbidden to be Tatar national, and any sign of national identity is persecuted. Occupation government banned any Tatar events devoted to deportation and genocide, but they cannot be forbidden to just pray for the fallen.
Today, I call on to honor the memory of all who died during the tragic events. Nothing can justify or explain the destruction of half the nation. But it is not a lesser evil to forget about the crime committed back in '72.
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