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The deportation of the Crimean Tatars differs from that of the other ethnic cleansings ordered by the Soviets. ... Unfortunately for the Chechens and the Tatars, they also lived in areas of great industrial and economic potential for the Soviets. ... In the case of the Crimean Tatars, Russians and Ukrainians and Belorussians already harbored deep grudges for the former slave raiders under the thumb of the great Ottoman Empire hundreds of years before. Where many ethnic groups were guilty only of being born into the wrong family, the Tatars had given the Russians ample justification to rip them from their homeland.
Incidentally, the Crimean Tatars were not originally from the Crimean peninsula. ... Over the next two hundred years, the Tatar soldiers intermixed with the indigenous population of the peninsula and eventually created a national ethnic identity as Crimean Tatars. In 1428, as the Golden Horde was being torn apart from internal corruption, the Tatars were granted political autonomy as the Crimean Khanate. For the next fifty years, the Tatars lived in peace with their Orthodox neighbors to the north and west. ... The Tatars did not offer much resistance and they were granted the title of protectorate of the Ottoman Empire. Over the next three hundred years, the Tatars bred a deep hatred for themselves within their Orthodox neighbors, namely the Russians. As a protectorate of the most powerful empire in the world, the Tatars were free to engage in raids on surrounding lands without the worry of these smaller nations declaring war. The Tatars found that the slave trade was the most lucrative at the time. ... The Tatars were not discriminate in their raids. ...
Almost adding insult to injury, the Tatars also fought alongside their big brother Ottomans in the battles in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. ... Also, the Crimean city of Azov lay on the coast of the Azov Sea, a small body of water connected to the Black Sea by a small, easily defended strait. Though the Russians had been subject to the slave raids of the Tatars for hundreds of years, any grudges that might have been held were not brought to surface until much later on.
Approximate Word count = 1698
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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