by the Crimean Tatar People
concerning their National Fate, in connection with the 50th anniversary of the USSR, addressed to the Politburo of the Party Central Committee (September 1972, 5 pages).
[Note: This document was submitted with 10,775 signatures in December 1972.]
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The Crimean Tatar people are guided by the unalterable and never fading character of the Great October Revolution as a part of the world proletarian revolution. They assess in the necessary way the fact that the present leadership of the party has still not taken regard of their will and its lawful aspirations to have restored to it that which originally belongs to them…
Terrorization of the people continues in the form of base and cowardly repression of their finest representatives… The national question of the Crimean Tatars becomes a subject of “court examinations” in order to frighten the national movement by such unconstitutional means and to force it to its knees … On the eve of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the USSR… the chauvinist rabble again comes gushing out from every crack, political corpses of the type of Kozlov, Yugov, Vergasov and Martynov, who libel our people… Every mention of the very fact of the creation of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Republic is carefully expunged from every publication… The national movement of the Crimean Tatars arouses in the inspirers of 28 years of discrimination… ferocious hatred…This explains the desire of anti-socialist forces to prevent the question of the national fate of the Crimean Tatars being discussed by the Party and public opinion… Sooner or later… the leadership of the Party will have to…
- Investigate and bring to trial the persons who inspired, organized and zealously carried out the deportation and guarding of our people in the special conditions of the punitive surveillance regime, and also their successors.,., unmask and crush the imperialist essence of the theoretical concepts of Nadinsky [1], Shults and Vakliabov…
- Annul the decrees, laws and normative acts of 1944, 1945, 1946, 1954, 1956 and 1967…, which deny the constitutional rights of the Crimean Tatars and legitimize the seizure of their homeland…
- Implement…an organized return of the Crimean Tatar people to their native Crimea… facilitate a coordinated settlement in places where the Crimean Tatars have historically resided…. and restore the Crimean ASSR…
- Draw up and carry out a complex of measures which will guarantee the complete liquidation of the effects of the barbarous deportation in the spheres of economics, culture and education…
- Review all criminal and Party cases and exculpate…people punished for participating in the national movement.
The struggle against the Crimean Tatar nation… has been taken into the international arena… by the falsification of the history of the Crimea,… by the materials of State censuses (in which the national category “Crimean Tatar” is missing altogether…), by the provocative fuss made about the burials in the “Krasny” State farm (this is a reference to the renewal in the Soviet press of charges against the Crimean Tatars of mass betrayal and serving the Germans)…
The course of events objectively compels the Crimean Tatar people, for the protection of their vital rights and of their gains from the revolution, fully to exploit their rights as a nation…to appeal to all international organizations… from the platform which the USSR, in these organizations, proclaims, and to appeal to the world communist movement.
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