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Approximately two and a half million people belonging to eight different nations, who have lived under the roof of USSR, (the Volga German, Karachais, Kalmyks, ChechenIngushs, Balkars, Meskhetian Turks and Crimean Tatars) have been displaced from their homelands and deported to Central Asia by a decree of Stalin within the years of 1937-1949. The reason of decree was betrayal to USSR during the World War 2, although the decree was not supported by any investigation, trial or judgment. Even leaving the debates about the fairness of the decision, Stalin’s era deportations were evaluated as one of the most aggressive part of Stalin’s “nationality policy” and one of the most tragic landmarks of Soviet history. The affects of the deportation have been still felt among the deported nations even after more than half a century of the deportation. In that sense, Crimean Tatars have been deported from Crimean peninsula, where gave to their nationality its identity, to Central Asia in May, 1944. That of deportation was perceived by Crimean Tatars as a step of Stalin and post-Stalinist Soviet regime in order to suppress the Crimean Tatars’ national heritage, identity and memory of their homelands and to provide the Slavization of Crimean peninsula, where carries political, economic and militaric importances. In that regard, the deportation with all its difficulties and the afterward struggle of “return to homeland” became a very important step within the Crimean Tatars’ process of gaining their national consciousness

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