The event of the 18th May 1944 is one of the most shameful pages in the history of the USSR, because in this day the Crimean Tatars were deprived of the opportunity to live on their native land. In the early morning NKVD soldiers launched a special operation to forcibly "resettle persons of Crimean Tatar nationality" to Central Asia. The pretext for the deportation was the alleged mass collaboration in favor of Germany. The soldiers went home and were given 15 minutes to pack. The nightmare lasted two days. As a result, children, women and the elderly were loaded like cattle into freight wagons and sent into exile into the unknown. But not everyone reached their destination. One in four died in boarded–up carriages, and according to some reports, one in two.

After the debunking of the cult of Stalin's personality, the Crimean Tatars could not return to their homeland for a long time until the beginning of the time of Perestroika. But even after that, rehabilitation is still difficult. Especially after the events of 2014.

Today is 80 years since the eviction of the Crimean Tatars. And for us the pain of a close people is also our pain. We are both tatars (I'm a Volga Tatar from Bashkortostan and they are Crimean Tatars). We are both Turkic people, we are both muslim. Our languages are common. However most of the Volga Tatar under the influence of Stalinism justify this criminal act. Stalinists (I HATE THEM ALL) tell that most of the Crimean Tatars were traitors in WW2 and everyone Crimean Tatar was a servant of Hitler. This is not true. According to the 1939 census, there were more than 210 thousand Crimean Tatars; about 18 thousand were mobilized by the Germans or came voluntarily in various self-defense units. In 1942 the Crimean Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) warned against sweeping tatarophobia and called not to blame the entire people for the actions of collaborators. Instead of a story about the tragic events of the mid-twentieth century, about the heroes of the Crimean Tatars who fought for the USSR, about the split in Crimean Tatar families, where relatives found themselves on opposite sides of the front, an entire people is recorded as enemies and traitors.

Anyway we mourn on this day. We wish the fraternal Crimean Tatar people to gain strength and return justice to themselves.

Idel Tatarlar sezneň belän.