Consequences of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People in the Years of the Second World War, Ethnic Restrictions During Postwar Decades Through the Prism of Ethnosocial Transformations of the Contemporary Crimea

Abstract

The article analyzes the ethnodemographic situation in the pre-war Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the impact of the consequences of the Second World War on the total population of the peninsula. The change in the ethnic structure of the population as a result of repression on the ground of ethnicity, eviction of the Crimean Tatar people and ethnic groups is shown. The policy of the Soviet totalitarian regime in relation to repressed peoples in the post-war period. The influence of legislative and normative acts of the USSR on repressed peoples, on the legal status, ethnocultural and national development of the Crimean Tatars is considered. Negative consequences of prolonged retention in the places of special settlements, the elimination of the ethnonym, the exclusion from the register of peoples and languages of the USSR are studied. A rigid ban on return and residence in the Crimea is revealed. Repressive measures against members of the national movement are revealed. The change in the position of the people in connection with democratization in the USSR and the beginning of mass return to their homeland is pointed out. Inconsistency in the adoption and implementation of decisions of the state concerning the Crimean Tatar people is indicated. The complex of unresolved problems in various spheres of people's life is evidentiated.