ANALYSIS: The Crimea - Europe's next `Bosnia'?

From: Ukrainian Weekly, The | Date: March 13, 1994| Author: Taras Kuzio | Copyright information


Ukrainian Weekly, The

03-13-1994

ANALYSIS: The Crimea - Europe's next 'Bosnia'?.

by Taras Kuzio

The Crimean Tatar autonomous republic had an autonomous status within the Russian SFSR until 1954, when it was given to Ukraine as a "gift" in celebration of the 1654 "reunification" of Ukraine and Russia. In 1944-1945 its Tatar population, which had never constituted a majority, was deported to Central Asia on charges of alleged collaboration with the Nazis...

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