Stalinskiĭ genot︠s︡id i etnot︠s︡id krymsko-tatarskogo naroda
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The Crimean Tatars living in Crimea are descendants of a mix of Turkic and non-Turkic people who had settled in Eastern Europe as early as the 7th century BC. During Stalin's Great Purge, the entire Crimean Tatar population in Crimea fell victim to Soviet policies. Although a great number of Crimean Tatar men served in the Red Army and took part in the partizan movement in Crimea during the war, the existence of the Tatar Legion in the Nazi army and the collaboration of Crimean Tatar religious and political leaders with Hitler during the German occupation of Crimea provided the Soviets with a pretext for accusing the whole Crimean Tatar population of being Nazi collaborators.
