better than the homeland may 18 memorial day of the victims of the genocide of the crimean tatar people greetings dear tv viewers yana eva melnyk and this is the news today in ukraine memorial day of the victims of the genocide of the crimean tatar people at 3:00 a.m. on may 18, 1944, the communist authorities began an operation to deport crimean tatars from the crimean peninsula, people were forcibly resettled to remote regions of the soviet union from northern territorial to central asia, the deportees were allowed to attend meetings from a few minutes to half an hour, they were allowed to take personal belongings with them, and most of the property remained and was confiscated by the state during the main wave of deportations, the communist regime evicted about 200,000 crimean tatars in the first three years after resettlement due to starvation, exhaustion and diseases, died according to various estimates, from 20 to 46% of all deportees among the dead in the first year, almost half were children under the age of 16. meanwhile, 50,000 people, mostly russians, were resettled in crimea the crimean tatar

better than the homeland may 18 memorial day of the victims of the genocide of the crimean tatar people greetings dear tvwers yana eva melnyk and this news today in ukraine memorial day of the victims of the genocide of the crimean tatar people at 3:00 a.m. on may 18, 1944