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Top-secret decree of 11 May 1944, signed by Stalin, ordering all Crimean Tatars banished from Crimea.

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11 May 1944

State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss (Crimean Tatars). Top-secret decree of 11 May 1944, signed by Stalin, ordering all Crimean Tatars banished from Crimea.

11 May 1944

Joseph Stalin signed State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss (Crimean Tatars).

State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss (Crimean Tatars) features Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (1944).

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