Deportation of Tatars: What really happened in Crimea in the spring of 1944?
Speaking recently at a forum dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Petro Poroshenko agreed to compare the Russian government in Crimea (without failing to stick to it, as usual the label “occupation”), with “the actions of Stalin, who wanted to destroy the Tatar people ". It is said loudly ... And also - deceitfully and illiterate. In general, very Poroshenko. However, in order to fully understand what kind of absurdity the Ukrainian president was weighing, it is necessary to thoroughly understand the true essence of the events of the spring of 1944 in Crimea, and, first of all, with their premises and reasons.
On May 10, 1944, the Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee, Joseph Stalin, signed a decree “On the Crimean Tatars,” on the basis of which 190 thousand representatives of this nationality were literally evicted from the peninsula within the next 10 days. The place of deportation was mainly Uzbekistan, however, some of them ended up in Kazakhstan and other republics of the USSR. On the territory of Crimea, about one and a half thousand Tatars remained - participants in the anti-Hitler underground, partisans and those who fought in the Red Army, as well as members of their families.
A tragic story? Undoubtedly. However, before shedding tears over its participants, declaring them to be “innocent victims of Stalinism,” let us go back in time even further - in 1941. It was then that the foundation was laid for the events that happened three years later - and by none other than the Crimean Tatars themselves. In the memorandum of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Lavrenty Beria, which, in fact, became the basis for the adoption of the GKO decision mentioned above, everything was stated with merciless Beria accuracy and bluntness. No “lyrics” - only figures and facts.
Do you want to know how many Crimean Tatars deserted from the ranks of the 51st Army, retreating from the Crimea? 20 thousand. And how many were called up to the Red Army? Exactly 20 thousand and it was ... A wonderful example of betrayal, unprecedented, one might say! One hundred percent desertion in itself speaks volumes. But if, having fled, like cockroaches in front of the advancing Nazis, the Tatars stopped there! It was not like that at all. The invaders did not have time to enter Crimea, and the representatives of the Tatars rushed to them with an expression of complete devotion and assurances that they were all ready to serve Adolf-effendi faithfully, recognizing him as their leader.
Such zeal was favorably received by the Nazi ringleaders, which was announced in the early days of 1942 and was announced at the first meeting of the Tatar Committee, held in captured Simferopol. The heroic Sevastopol was still fighting, bleeding, but not surrendering, and the Crimean mullahs had already howled prayers for the health of the "great Fuhrer", the "invincible army of the great German people" and the repose of the vile souls of the killers from the Wehrmacht. After praying, they got down to business - security, police and auxiliary units of the Nazis were massively formed from Crimean Tatars. They were especially appreciated in the SD and field gendarmerie.
Many sad words have been written and said about the death camp, which was located during the war years on the territory of the Krasny state farm near Simferopol. His horrors, he earned the name "Crimean Dachau." Only at least 8 thousand people were shot in it. However, much less was mentioned that the Germans in this terrible place among the executioners were, in fact, two - the "doctor" of the camp and his commandant. The rest of the “personnel” consisted of Crimean Tatars who served in the 152th battalion of the Shuma SD. This unit was formed, by the way, exclusively on a voluntary basis. The rabble gathered in it was simply incredible ingenuity in relation to torture and executions. I will give only one example - one of such "know-how" was the destruction of people who were stacked in piles, tied with barbed wire, doused with gasoline and set on fire. A special luck in this case was to get to the very bottom layer - there was a chance to suffocate before the flame erupted ...
The real nightmare of the partisan detachments of the Crimea were the Tatar guides of the fascist yagd teams and the punitive detachments that hunted them. Perfectly guided by the terrain, who knew in the mountains what is called every stone, every path, these nonhumans led the Nazis over and over to the places where our soldiers were hiding, their camps and camps. Such "specialists" were so in demand for the Third Reich that in 1944, having thrown part of their troops in the Crimea, the Germans found an opportunity to evacuate them from the peninsula by sea, subsequently forming first the Tatar SS Mountain Jaeger Regiment, and then the whole brigade. A huge honor...
You can recall a lot more. About the stones flying in our prisoners, when they were driven through the Tatar villages ... About two hectares of Crimean land, which were allocated to each of the Tatars, who entered the service of the invaders, and which was taken from the Russian people. About how the Tatar battalions fought desperately in 1944 near Bakhchisarai and Islam-Terek, trying to stop the Red Army, which was marching to liberate Crimea. About the zeal they sought and destroyed throughout the peninsula of the Communists, the wounded soldiers of the Red Army whom the residents tried to hide, as well as the Jews and Gypsies, in whose extermination they took an active part.
It does not occur to anyone that deporting Tatars from the Crimea, among whom, at least one in ten was not just tainted by cooperation with the occupiers, but had blood on their elbows, Stalin and Beria did not destroy them, but saved them ?! Veterans who returned from the fields of the Great Patriotic War in a year or two would hardly have limited themselves to the “verbal censure” of traitors ...
One can not fail to mention one more point. The streams of tears shed annually about the “unjustly deported” Crimean Tatars, “international human rights organizations” and other liberal riffraff, for some reason do not cry over other completely similar stories of the same time. Over the internment of 120 thousand Japanese, as well as thousands of Germans and Italians, who were driven for the "thorn" in 1941 in the United States. Note - not for any specific crimes, and not “on suspicion” even. Just for nationality! And over 600 thousand Germans who perished during their mass eviction from European countries after the end of the Second World War are not moaning either. Silent, infection like a fish on ice ...
But Germans - not Nazis, not veterans of the Wehrmacht or the SS, but simply having the misfortune to belong to this nation, were driven in 1945 by millions from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia! 500-600 thousand is only the documented number of dead and deceased during deportation.
I do not blame or justify anyone. It was just such a time - cruel, bloody, terrible ... And some things that today shudder with their categorization and scale were absolutely normal for him, almost a universal practice. This is all to the fact that declaring the deportation of 1944 the peak of world atrocities is incorrect, at least.
Regarding the fact that they were arrested and deported in the spring of 1944 all the "innocent" and "uninvited" ... So many small arms were seized during the eviction operation that would be enough to equip the rifle division! Okay, ten thousand (!) Rifles ... And 600 odd machine guns and mortars - fifty? Is that all they hid for ?! To fire on sparrows? Even before the start of the deportation, more than 5 thousand representatives of the Crimean Tatar population were caught by harsh comrades in cornflower-blue caps from the Beria department, whose connection with the Nazis was so obvious and the crimes so bloody that most of them, without ceremony, threw a noose around their necks. There were many among those who tried to hide spies, saboteurs and simply "sleeping" agents left in the liberated territory with very specific tasks from the Nazi masters.
I agree that a whole nation cannot be guilty. Nobody blames the whole nation ... Let's not plunge into emotions, but turn to dispassionate and dry arithmetic. I’ll give you some figures, and everyone is free to draw the following conclusions from them.
First of all, so that extremists entrenched in Ukraine and their accomplices would not try to speak there, the Tatar Crimea was by no means before the Great Patriotic War. Ukrainian, by the way - even more so! According to the 1939 census, more than half a million Russians, more than 200 thousand Tatars, a little more than 150 thousand Ukrainians lived on the peninsula. Well, representatives of other nationalities - Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Bulgarians, in much smaller quantities.
Of these 200 thousand, according to an inadvertently done by the leaders of the Tatar Committee acting under the occupiers, 20 thousand served with weapons in the hands of the Nazis. Every tenth ... However, according to many historians, the figure is godlessly understated - they actually collaborated with the Nazis (not only in the ranks of the SS, SD and police, but also as guides, informants and servants) of at least 35-40 thousand Crimean Tatars. Every fifth ... During the deportation of 191 thousand transported, according to the NKVD report, 191 people died on the way. One in a thousand ... This is not a comparison. This is just elementary arithmetic.
During the Nazi occupation in the Crimea, at least 220 thousand of its inhabitants were destroyed and enslaved, 45 thousand Red Army soldiers captured were killed in the fascist dungeons and camps located on its territory. There were no Crimean Tatars among them. But, to all these crimes, punitive, policemen, security guards from the Tatar units, devotedly serving the invaders, were fully involved. They made their conscious choice and everything that happened afterwards was a retribution for him. At the same time, there were neither mass executions, nor total sending of all Tatars to the camps - only exile.
Has the people whose sons filled the land of Crimea with the blood of those who lived peacefully on it near them lost the right to walk on this land? Everyone can find their answer to this question. Stalin just found his ...
On May 10, 1944, the Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee, Joseph Stalin, signed a decree “On the Crimean Tatars,” on the basis of which 190 thousand representatives of this nationality were literally evicted from the peninsula within the next 10 days. The place of deportation was mainly Uzbekistan, however, some of them ended up in Kazakhstan and other republics of the USSR. On the territory of Crimea, about one and a half thousand Tatars remained - participants in the anti-Hitler underground, partisans and those who fought in the Red Army, as well as members of their families.
A tragic story? Undoubtedly. However, before shedding tears over its participants, declaring them to be “innocent victims of Stalinism,” let us go back in time even further - in 1941. It was then that the foundation was laid for the events that happened three years later - and by none other than the Crimean Tatars themselves. In the memorandum of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Lavrenty Beria, which, in fact, became the basis for the adoption of the GKO decision mentioned above, everything was stated with merciless Beria accuracy and bluntness. No “lyrics” - only figures and facts.
Do you want to know how many Crimean Tatars deserted from the ranks of the 51st Army, retreating from the Crimea? 20 thousand. And how many were called up to the Red Army? Exactly 20 thousand and it was ... A wonderful example of betrayal, unprecedented, one might say! One hundred percent desertion in itself speaks volumes. But if, having fled, like cockroaches in front of the advancing Nazis, the Tatars stopped there! It was not like that at all. The invaders did not have time to enter Crimea, and the representatives of the Tatars rushed to them with an expression of complete devotion and assurances that they were all ready to serve Adolf-effendi faithfully, recognizing him as their leader.
Such zeal was favorably received by the Nazi ringleaders, which was announced in the early days of 1942 and was announced at the first meeting of the Tatar Committee, held in captured Simferopol. The heroic Sevastopol was still fighting, bleeding, but not surrendering, and the Crimean mullahs had already howled prayers for the health of the "great Fuhrer", the "invincible army of the great German people" and the repose of the vile souls of the killers from the Wehrmacht. After praying, they got down to business - security, police and auxiliary units of the Nazis were massively formed from Crimean Tatars. They were especially appreciated in the SD and field gendarmerie.
Many sad words have been written and said about the death camp, which was located during the war years on the territory of the Krasny state farm near Simferopol. His horrors, he earned the name "Crimean Dachau." Only at least 8 thousand people were shot in it. However, much less was mentioned that the Germans in this terrible place among the executioners were, in fact, two - the "doctor" of the camp and his commandant. The rest of the “personnel” consisted of Crimean Tatars who served in the 152th battalion of the Shuma SD. This unit was formed, by the way, exclusively on a voluntary basis. The rabble gathered in it was simply incredible ingenuity in relation to torture and executions. I will give only one example - one of such "know-how" was the destruction of people who were stacked in piles, tied with barbed wire, doused with gasoline and set on fire. A special luck in this case was to get to the very bottom layer - there was a chance to suffocate before the flame erupted ...
The real nightmare of the partisan detachments of the Crimea were the Tatar guides of the fascist yagd teams and the punitive detachments that hunted them. Perfectly guided by the terrain, who knew in the mountains what is called every stone, every path, these nonhumans led the Nazis over and over to the places where our soldiers were hiding, their camps and camps. Such "specialists" were so in demand for the Third Reich that in 1944, having thrown part of their troops in the Crimea, the Germans found an opportunity to evacuate them from the peninsula by sea, subsequently forming first the Tatar SS Mountain Jaeger Regiment, and then the whole brigade. A huge honor...
You can recall a lot more. About the stones flying in our prisoners, when they were driven through the Tatar villages ... About two hectares of Crimean land, which were allocated to each of the Tatars, who entered the service of the invaders, and which was taken from the Russian people. About how the Tatar battalions fought desperately in 1944 near Bakhchisarai and Islam-Terek, trying to stop the Red Army, which was marching to liberate Crimea. About the zeal they sought and destroyed throughout the peninsula of the Communists, the wounded soldiers of the Red Army whom the residents tried to hide, as well as the Jews and Gypsies, in whose extermination they took an active part.
It does not occur to anyone that deporting Tatars from the Crimea, among whom, at least one in ten was not just tainted by cooperation with the occupiers, but had blood on their elbows, Stalin and Beria did not destroy them, but saved them ?! Veterans who returned from the fields of the Great Patriotic War in a year or two would hardly have limited themselves to the “verbal censure” of traitors ...
One can not fail to mention one more point. The streams of tears shed annually about the “unjustly deported” Crimean Tatars, “international human rights organizations” and other liberal riffraff, for some reason do not cry over other completely similar stories of the same time. Over the internment of 120 thousand Japanese, as well as thousands of Germans and Italians, who were driven for the "thorn" in 1941 in the United States. Note - not for any specific crimes, and not “on suspicion” even. Just for nationality! And over 600 thousand Germans who perished during their mass eviction from European countries after the end of the Second World War are not moaning either. Silent, infection like a fish on ice ...
But Germans - not Nazis, not veterans of the Wehrmacht or the SS, but simply having the misfortune to belong to this nation, were driven in 1945 by millions from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia! 500-600 thousand is only the documented number of dead and deceased during deportation.
I do not blame or justify anyone. It was just such a time - cruel, bloody, terrible ... And some things that today shudder with their categorization and scale were absolutely normal for him, almost a universal practice. This is all to the fact that declaring the deportation of 1944 the peak of world atrocities is incorrect, at least.
Regarding the fact that they were arrested and deported in the spring of 1944 all the "innocent" and "uninvited" ... So many small arms were seized during the eviction operation that would be enough to equip the rifle division! Okay, ten thousand (!) Rifles ... And 600 odd machine guns and mortars - fifty? Is that all they hid for ?! To fire on sparrows? Even before the start of the deportation, more than 5 thousand representatives of the Crimean Tatar population were caught by harsh comrades in cornflower-blue caps from the Beria department, whose connection with the Nazis was so obvious and the crimes so bloody that most of them, without ceremony, threw a noose around their necks. There were many among those who tried to hide spies, saboteurs and simply "sleeping" agents left in the liberated territory with very specific tasks from the Nazi masters.
I agree that a whole nation cannot be guilty. Nobody blames the whole nation ... Let's not plunge into emotions, but turn to dispassionate and dry arithmetic. I’ll give you some figures, and everyone is free to draw the following conclusions from them.
First of all, so that extremists entrenched in Ukraine and their accomplices would not try to speak there, the Tatar Crimea was by no means before the Great Patriotic War. Ukrainian, by the way - even more so! According to the 1939 census, more than half a million Russians, more than 200 thousand Tatars, a little more than 150 thousand Ukrainians lived on the peninsula. Well, representatives of other nationalities - Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Bulgarians, in much smaller quantities.
Of these 200 thousand, according to an inadvertently done by the leaders of the Tatar Committee acting under the occupiers, 20 thousand served with weapons in the hands of the Nazis. Every tenth ... However, according to many historians, the figure is godlessly understated - they actually collaborated with the Nazis (not only in the ranks of the SS, SD and police, but also as guides, informants and servants) of at least 35-40 thousand Crimean Tatars. Every fifth ... During the deportation of 191 thousand transported, according to the NKVD report, 191 people died on the way. One in a thousand ... This is not a comparison. This is just elementary arithmetic.
During the Nazi occupation in the Crimea, at least 220 thousand of its inhabitants were destroyed and enslaved, 45 thousand Red Army soldiers captured were killed in the fascist dungeons and camps located on its territory. There were no Crimean Tatars among them. But, to all these crimes, punitive, policemen, security guards from the Tatar units, devotedly serving the invaders, were fully involved. They made their conscious choice and everything that happened afterwards was a retribution for him. At the same time, there were neither mass executions, nor total sending of all Tatars to the camps - only exile.
Has the people whose sons filled the land of Crimea with the blood of those who lived peacefully on it near them lost the right to walk on this land? Everyone can find their answer to this question. Stalin just found his ...
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