If there is a Tartar rebellion I think Putin will handle the Tartar problem in a 19th century fashion. He will likely remove the entire Tartar population by force and either work them to death in camps or ship them off to a new “homeland.” I think the Russians are done with half measures. It is the 1920s all over again.
Yes, maybe they’ll start starving the ungrateful Ukrainians again and build the Gulag to hold any dissidents. Putin represents the darkest type of thinking of the Soviet and Czarist eras, and he is fully capable massive crimes against the innocent based on collective guilt. You’re a Ukrainian. You’re guilty. You’re a Tatar. You’re guilty. You’re a bourgeois. You’re guilty. On and on, without the fundamental right to be judged for a crime.