a little history:
2 million, that’s how many people the Crimean Tartars sold into slavery in the slave markets of Istanbul. This does not account for the rapes of women who were not taken into slavery, this does not account for the children and old, who died on Eastern Europe’s version of the Trail of Tears. This does not account for the millions who died defending their homes.
2 million is simply the number of people that were sold by the Crimean Tartars into slavery, in what they called ‘the Harvest.’ We can thank the Ottoman Turks for keeping good accounting of the taxes they collected on the sales.
The Crimean Tartars, you be the judge of what Poles, Moldavians, Belorussians, Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, and Lithuanians think of them. And just as the Crimean Tartars remember 1944, everyone else remembers what came before.
Yes, there is a smoldering undercurrent of anti Islam there but will Ukrainians fight along side the Tartars against Russia.... like you I have my doubts but we will have to see.