Crimea: March of the Tatars

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In one of history's most severe and efficient incidents of mass exile, the Tatars in Crimea were removed from their homeland by Stalin in 1944. Within just three days, 200,000 Tatars were forcibly deported. After spending 50 years in exile, the Tatars returned to their homeland in Crimea at the collapse of the Soviet Union, and have since felt generally protected under Ukrainian rule.
Following a fraudulent and illegal referendum earlier this year on whether to become part of Russia, Crimea was annexed by the Russian Federation - a move that brought back painful memories of persecution and oppression for the local Tatar community.
VICE News spent time with Tatars around the time of the commemoration of their exile, and found a community already under pressure from new Russian authorities. It’s unclear what their future will hold under Russian rule again, and many fear that history could repeat itself.
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[@azeribeauty7576]

Beautiful Turkic people!!! You need to be strong, don't give up your language and culture!!!

[@genkiferal7178]

@Arif According to Wikipedia, they spoke a Turk language and probably adopted many Turk customs - but DNA is not Tuk or not much. at least.

[@kseniiadimitrieva6384]

thats why they speak russian? 🤔

[@dkx831]

@Elif Stop spreading fake information. Simple Google search would be enough to tell you that‘s wrong. Why shouldn't Turks have big colored eyes? Although Asians have small brown eyes, in Central Asia, Kazakhs and other Turkic people are more likely to have big or colored eyes than Mongols and others. According to people, British people have white skin as milk; Russians have blue eyes as the azure sky; Scottish people have red hair as the fire; Indians have long hair as silk. Let me tell you a little secret. We have their all facial & hair features, more or less. Turks don't have a certain appearance, we have different eyes types and different skin colors. this is why we are unique. Some Turkic girls : kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnPUdolnq9B4Z7s

[@teovu5557]

@@genkiferal7178 Crimean Tatars have 3 subgroups. The Tats are a mixed of Cuman,Greek,Scythian and Gothic peoples. The Yaliboylu are native Greeks and other balkans people with some cuman mix who assimilated to Turkic language. And the Nogai who are turkiced Mongols and cumans(at least 25%-30% East eurasasan) They are more Turkic then Turks from Turkey.

[@Plus-l-]

@@kseniiadimitrieva6384stalin invest more money to destroy turkic language then investing in war 😂

[@bok1829]

i’m a crimean tatar but i’m born in bulgaria so i don’t know much about our culture, i’m trying to learn ab it :)

[@imsouw5342]

You should, because that is your identity forever.

[@jackal192]

@@imsouw5342 Yes brother.We shouldnt let Russians to destroy 342 years of history culture and pride.Maybe we forced to leave our homeland but we need to keep our traditions alive.

[@corneliu-mihaimagureanu6626]

I'm part crimean tatar from Romania

[@hexcrab7344]

Look up Айдер Муждабаев youtube channel if you are interested in your history

[@muazzamshaikh2049]

I want to know which country is friendly with crimean tatar. I know that lipka tatars live in Poland peacefully, volga tatars in Russia. Does the fact that the crimean tatars used to conduct several slave raids into the east slavic lands that they're hated today (when there was crimean Khanate), or some other reason.?

[@roychowdhury4348]

May God bless the Tatars of Crimea and may God empower them.

[@genkiferal7178]

I did a quick search on Wikipedia: not all Tatars were Muslim - some were shamanistic (not many). The muslim Tartars raided the Slavic lands gathering thousands of slaves (over 20,000?). How far back in history do people go to pity or hold blame and why is one allowed sometimes and not the other? Putin has no intention of evicting anyone and defended the Muslims the other day when he found out that the neo-nazis who caught those who were soldiers (maybe Chechens, idk) were being tortured.

[@carljohnson2194]

Ameen

[@kamilwhite8139]

be strong my Tatat Turk brothers. Allah komeyiniz olsun

[@kamilwhite8139]

@Cold Water who said that turks have roots in Turkey? We share same language and many things like this. And at the end of day all nations are brothers and everybody should live in peace not depending which nation or ethnicity they belong to.

[@mohdfarid6351]

Salam...for muslims brother....

[@yurichtube1162]

@@kamilwhite8139 you cry for tatars, but not for your own minorities. You fix your Kurdish problem first, then think about tatars.

[@kamilwhite8139]

@@yurichtube1162 ) I'm from Azerbaijan))))

[@yurichtube1162]

@@kamilwhite8139 same thing. Care about your armenian issues. You won a war against them, but that didn't bring peace, did it?

[@cgallegos2106]

Long Live the Tartars! And may they never lose their homeland again. Slava Ukrainia! Slava Crimea!

[@hayro252]

heh iirc ukranians didnt care shit about tatars before this all happened also russians gave them rights that ukranians didnt gave after the annexation

[@DaInsano]

hayro252 Russian gave them rights like getting beaten up and killed for free and getting your settlements destroyed?

[@cgallegos2106]

hayro252 they had autonomy when they were in Ukraine.

[@hayro252]

Christian Gallegos yeah but that autonomy for ruskies not for tatars

[@hayro252]

DaInsano at least they solved the land disputes

[@MP40meatballTR]

Hope our Tatar brothers get what they want.

[@terribird4862]

Xavier Toussaint yes.

[@serenseitcean2051]

Thanks

[@lifeneverends7068]

Im from Turkey and I understand everything they say!

[@Ahmad-os3si]

how

[@gurcuball6193]

@@Ahmad-os3si because we are brothers with Tatars

[@Grzegorz_Brzeczyszczykiewitcz]

@@gurcuball6193 also Ukranians has a roots with Otamans ! Slava Ukraina and Tyrkey small brothers !

[@gurcuball6193]

@@Grzegorz_Brzeczyszczykiewitcz ok bro. We like Ukraine too. Your name sound like a Polish Name btw.

[@Grzegorz_Brzeczyszczykiewitcz]

@@gurcuball6193 Yes I`m polish, but for your know Crimean tatars has nothing comon with original Tatars from east (mongolian) Its completely different nations ( like persians and otomans for exemple, but your are both muslims btw)

[@macewindujedii]

I am Russian, and I respect the Tartars. Allahu Akbar!

[@gwynpaladin8553]

Shame on you, you disgusting fool, Crimea is Russia, same with the Caucuss Mountains, where most Russian Muslims are happy and happily serve in the Army. Mother RUSSIA.

[@kokturk6207]

Gwyn Paladin Tatars are not happy with u russians. 1. U guys forced them to take the russian citizenship and they don‘t want it. 2. Crimea was never russian or ukrainian land. It belongs to the Tatars and they live longer there than russians. 3. Stalin forced the deportation of the tatars to leave the lands for the russians. My only question is, you guys already have so much land, why u want some more???

[@gwynpaladin8553]

@@kokturk6207 Crimea always belonged to the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Russian Federation you uneducated mor8on. By your logic, half of Europe belongs to the Roman Empire or California still belongs to Mexico, doesnt work that way. Crimea will always be Russia. Most Tatars are neutral or happy, I did not say, I said most, look at Tatarstan and other Republics, things are pretty ok and good now. Oh are you from Turkey or a turk? How does it feel that most Turk/Turkish Empires such as the Ottoman Empire got raped and destroyed multiple times by the Russian Empire, even worse a female leader? Turkey begs Russia, after Russia killed their soldiers and Turkmenistan has positive relationship.

[@kokturk6207]

Gwyn Paladin You‘re a racist, who does not have any good arguments and trying to offend me. I don‘t hate russians but you‘re the first one, who‘s acting stupid. You deny historical facts and call me a moron lol. I think, you are the one, who is uneducated between us. PS: I reported u

[@gwynpaladin8553]

@kkii lulu Crimea has always belonged to the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, this is a fact, undeniable. Ottoman Empire and several Turk Groups lost several and all important wars against the Russian Empire, some periods a Women was leading the Russian Empire, while Muslims never allow a Women to become a leader. Fact, undeniable. Some tatars are not happy, you are not happy fine, it is what it is, but MOST tatars are neutral/positive about Russia, they dont want war or a conflict, do you understand this? Is this too hard to understand for you?

[@dima7b]

Good luck Crimean Tatars :) Wishing the best during these difficult times.

[@regvarney4376]

There are no "difficult times" . The Tatars were actually having a very difficult time being Ukrainian since becoming independant.

[@Andy-hy4hc]

i’m from turkey i can understand most of the words they say. I’m Sending love to tatars and ukraine people

[@MrHasibafghan]

much love and respect to the Tatars people and I am very inspired by them.

[@KINGONE6XIV]

I just don't understand why Russia still obsessing over Ukraine when they already the biggest country in the world like leave Ukraine alone

[@JonaRosalinaRose]

Superiority complex, like when someone buys expensive cars and guns to compensate for their small dick.

[@jaini_sgt_crew8326]

The USSR was all Russia controlled, the West being European union have since taken many countries. With no democracy, they have different history. They speak Russian.

[@eden6056]

Crimea is important as in is in the Black sea and has ports for Russia's navy and also destablises Ukraine

[@eltessy]

My sympathies for the Tatar people of Crimea, victims of one of the Stalin’s most horrific mass murder, An unknown number of people died.

[@sujac664]

I'm 8yrs late, but I'm here. Thank you Vice, love and respect to the Tatars, peace will be yours ❤

[@CopenhagenWintergreenn]

There are thousands of muslim Russians living in southern Russia that are living peacefully and with freedom of religion and so forth. Why is Vice demonizing Russia again when they held a democratic referendum in Crimea "illegal" or not Crimea is pro Russian so let them live that way.

[@IchKomentiereNur123]

Dagestan and Chechnya are peaceful? What about poor Circassians that got genocided and deported? No compensation or even recognition by Russia after all those years.

[@NorthCitySider]

What a useful idiot you are. You're either a bitch or a Russian.

[@leostomicek]

The Vice goes with the flow, since most of the market is Russophobic, they figured Russophobia sells.

[@CopenhagenWintergreenn]

***** Do these muslims practice their religions freely in southern Russia? yes. Do they have a dark past like many other ethnic groups around the world? yeah. That is old news and should be remembered but I'm talking about today and those abuses of the past won't happen again. Russia is under a microscope in todays world.

[@matjaz660]

Cause demonising Russia is their job.

[@cahyotriputra42]

ALLAH Helps Tatar people in eastern Europe😭

[@ThumbsHunter]

Playing the Tatar Card? Vice is getting desperate.

[@Culturebreach]

No as desperate as Putin is with the sanctions. How's your ruble doing?

[@ThumbsHunter]

Culturebreach I am from Germany, and the sanctions will hit us as hard as they will hit Russia. Because our government is an american puppet. Only Europe can harm Russias economy, but not without harming itself.

[@admonster11]

another kgb troll

[@ThumbsHunter]

admonster11 you got me.

[@existentialvoid]

it is under reported, and no one who is watching vice could possibly agree with how Crimea was annexed or that Kiev is run by neo-nazis. Any vice sub will tell you the early student protest videos and reporting gave us a pretty accurate vice panorama, and how Russia bullied a weak state. Likewise, this could turn into a new Chechnya.

[@Alilbas]

G-d, please move Russia away from Ukraine!

[@artbasss]

Appeal declined. God.

[@Alilbas]

I know you think You are G-d. But actually you are not.

[@artbasss]

Alilbas I know you think you have a direct line with God. But actually you don't

[@Alilbas]

That is not your business.

[@georgewest9600]

Alilbas i know you think god is real but he isnt

[@FadimeBek]

Thanks a lot for posting this video. I'd encourage everyone on our side who speaks English or any other language that is not Tatar, Ukrainian, or Russian, to post as much as possible on the conflict. There is a clear lack of coverage in English-speaking media, especially about Crimea. The information is often superficial, which results in horrible misinformation of people in the West. Thanks a lot again. Диваннi борцi, ми вiримо у вас - ви робите свiт краще! Слава Україні!

[@Point303Operator]

Russia better not start some shit when the Australian SAS and Dutch special forces try to secure the crash site soon. I hope Russia knows better than to fuck with the SAS.

[@culterwaleddy]

And the seals

[@Point303Operator]

collin ohlinger As far as I understand at this time it is only the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and (Non-Confirmed) Dutch Commandos

[@culterwaleddy]

Point303Operator The seals will be there to provide over watch. In the form of snipers.

[@Point303Operator]

collin ohlinger You have any sources? I've been following this story for a few days now and I've only heard mention of the Australians and 1 mention of the Dutch.

[@culterwaleddy]

Point303Operator Trust me if this plane is as important as you say it is then they'll be there, but not officially.

[@srikrishnak196]

Love to Crimean Tatars from India. Beautiful people with beautiful culture.

[@AndysWild]

руССкие троли уже засрали комментарии

[@winnycnua]

С тех, кто слил Крым, всё же стоит спросить…

[@krzysztofwalendziuk5000]

Russian "freedom" In Poland, Russia is called sometimes the" unhuman land".

[@Grzegorz_Brzeczyszczykiewitcz]

coz u forgot your russian master ..

[@murraykriner9425]

My prayers as does my heart go for these beautiful and proud people. Their struggle is the same for all of us who hope to rise above our stations, living in peace and harmony ever our prayer. They have done no wrong to any, except to wish to exist as their hearts tell them they must; with their faith, their language, and their identity as a people acknowledged by all. I pray they are given back what was rightly there's to start. Bless you my Brother's and Sister's. So very glad for your return home. Hope that those who stole your homeland have the decency to return to theirs, and leave you with blessings greater than all others, by respecting your right to what was ever yours. My love to the Tartar Peoples about the globe.

[@Wul-Lop]

May peace, wealth & health come to Crimea, Russia, Ukraine & all over the world.

[@FeloniousAngel]

Thank you, I look forward to all news from Ukraine.

[@Johntb100]

Jamala has an excellent song titled "1944" for Eurovision 2016please look it up on you tube.Stalin the dictator killed over seven million Ukrainians in 1932.in1944 he deported 250 k Crimean Tatars , most died during this journey.Today Crimea has no Tatar TV station and no Ukrainian schools.also try getting electricity in Crimea , without a generator.On top of that there is a severe drop in tourism.

[@mushroomnumber2]

Nice vice keep up the good work

[@betulcan8976]

People! Motherland! Crimea! Love from Turkey 🇹🇷🤘

[@user-yx4jd9hz5j]

What motherland? Tatars belong with the Mongols. Stay out of Russian land. Remember history.

[@acehnet]

I pray the tatars can live in their homeland peacefully

[@JohanCollinsololo]

Yes as you do not understand this is not a protest and not share what ever. It is a day of mourning for those killed in 1944 18 may. On this day, my people were loaded like animals in a freight train and transported to Central Asia and to the North,only on the way there died 46 % of the people. Even half of what remains died in the deportation from hunger and disease. This is not a protest,it is a day of mourning!!!!!!!

[@sinisadabic5371]

and how much of those things your ancestors did

[@tomihaili8756]

We have Tatars in Finland, one of them used to be a famous footballer.

[@user-eu3rs8qf5f]

Hope to see my motherland free. Ант еткенмен, соз бергенмен миллет ичун олмеге! The Russia’s hand is bloody for centuries, the blood of nations.

[@tasbykekerey1203]

Support Qırım Tatar brother from Qazaqstan! 🟦❤️🇰🇿

[@dogdad5264]

These people deserve their country back!

[@topkhani]

Sad to loose your homeland. Thanks Vice News for another great piece of news. So many people in the World are homeless: Native Americans, Australian Aboriginal peoples, Palestinians and Israelis, Kashmiris, West Saharan Swaharis . . .

[@gwynpaladin8553]

Crimea is Russia, if you do something about it, you will be killed. MOTHER RUSSIA.

[@Cobraman8447]

Gwyn Paladin technically Crimea was part of the Mongol Golden Horde which had control over Russia

[@jackal192]

@@gwynpaladin8553 Crimea is Crimean.Crimean Khanate rule the region for 342 years and before that hundreds of years region was Tatar.Russians invaded and genocide the tatar people.And dont worry,every empire is destined to fall.Time will come for Russia to face its crimes.

[@DeviantDespot]

Thought this said Taters, and I was like "Wow Ukraine, what a time to have a potato festival!"

[@jonahjameson831]

PO-TA-TOEEES

[@jarodestes3454]

Jonah Jameson BOIL 'EM, MASH 'EM, STICK EM IN A STEW!

[@russiaexitcrimea2203]

Long live the Tatars and long live the Ukrainians.

[@SomethingtoappeaseGoogle-1024]

Americans, before you defend the Tatars, remember the Native Americans.

[@SomethingtoappeaseGoogle-1024]

And before you demonise Stalin's Crimean Tatar deportation to Siberia, remember the *Trail* *of* *Tears*. Two wrongs certainly don't make a right but you are in no position to demonise The Soviet Union and Stalin's decision for something your country did on a much larger and much more devastating scale. 1/3 of the Native Americans who were in the Trail of Tears *died*. Crimean Tatar deportation to Siberia pales in comparison.

[@SomethingtoappeaseGoogle-1024]

***** Wait who is red? The Native Americans or the Soviets?

[@dht_bomb4529]

Something_to_appease_Google Leave the past in the past. Don't forget it, just remember it so its not repeated. What putin is doing is in the modern day and is not "allowed" in this age. When america conquered it was supposedly new land and there for the taking and actually was allowed back then. So let's not compare apples to oranges

[@bobbygilbert2706]

I never wronged any Native Americans. Their suffering 400 years ago is not my fault.

[@SomethingtoappeaseGoogle-1024]

You guys are so pathetic it makes me laugh hahahaha. Jon M yes leave the past in the past, the soviet deportation happened 70 years ago under Stalin's Soviet Union, leave that in the past. ***** Modern day Russians haven't harmed Crimeans, their suffering 70 years ago wasn't their fault as Stalin ordered it be done. Uchida itachi Indian reservations are perhaps some of the worst places ever to live. Everybody can receive money from the government, if you are white and don't have a job you can apply for foodstamps (money in the sense it is free food). Michael Karpp Hey dipshit, Stalin is dead and he ordered the deportation so stop saying Putin deported them to Siberia. estrom111 By your logic what happened a few hundred years ago was insignificant but what happened within the last 100 or so years is important. The deportation was 70 years ago, any modern day Russian alive back then was probably a child, not a government official working with Stalin. Wow you people failed to refute anything. hahahaha.

[@nineteenothree6604]

Is there any tatar that wants to talk with me i am a tatar that lives in turkey konya.

[@berkant6605]

Millions of crimean tatar descendants are there in turkey, two of my best friends are crimean tatar. Immigrated in 19th century🥺

[@sigtyr6158]

they are a minority in crimea and are a turkic people! vice is so clearly slanted against russians it is laughable.

[@fifthgear93]

They are the minority so they deserve to be treated badly? Is that your point? Also guess why they are the minority.

[@sigtyr6158]

how are they treated any differently than any other minority in russia today? vice makes crimea out to be native tartar land and russia the invading oppressor when neither is true. the majority is russian and it is russian land.

[@fromolwyoming]

Sig Tyr You know, by being exiled from their homeland by Stalin, being told to "go back to where you came from!" by others...

[@sigtyr6158]

their home is russia like many other peoples. if they dont want to accept crimea is russian they should go to where they REALLY come from.

[@Culturebreach]

Sig Tyr Another Colonist who is Justifying discrimination against minorities and an advocate for ethnic cleansing.

[@beataj3382]

Many Thanks very good. Many Thanks very good. I recognize voice the same guy who helped Simon in Russian Roulette

[@sjewitt22]

anyone got an update?

[@2klodu95]

The greeks established colonies there in the 5th century BC. The Tauri (believed to be Turkic) and Scytheans (Iranians) were already there at that time. Crimea was called Taurica, named by the Greeks after its Tauri inhabitants. Then came the Romans from 2nd BC till 10th BC when it became part of Kievan Rus. In 13th BC the Mongols took over. The Genoese and the Venetians had settlements along the coast. From Turco-Mongol rule, it became the Crimean Khanate protected by the Ottomans from 1441 till 1783 when it became part of the Russian Empire. Crimean Tatars became an ethnic entity under the Khanate and were a mixture of many turkic ethnic groups that have inhabited the area throughout the centuries. Crimean Tatars conducted slave raids into Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish territories. Slave trade was a cornerstone of Crimea's economy during the Khanate. At some point 75% of the population in Crimea was made up of slaves. Crimean Tatars would be raided by Zaporozhian Cossacks in return. Under the Russian Empire, the Crimean Tatars started to emigrate to the Ottoman Empire. Then came Stalin who starved the whole region to death and mass deported whatever was left of the Crimean Tatar, Greek, Armenian and Bulgarian populations. Anyway, anyone claiming ownership to that land will have to answer to the previous owner who in turn will need to answer to another and so on.

[@varalderfreyr8438]

Gothic?

[@tasbykekerey1203]

Where is Cuman-Kipchak confederation?

[@Wiktorino1984]

We all share blood with this people we should respect them.

[@orangewill7034]

Crimea was Turkic before it was Slavic, Russians Colonized the region to make it more loyal to the Motherland, before it was apart of the Mongol Golden Horde, then became the Crimean Khanate, a Turkish Protectorate state, even France and England tried to help the Turks keep Crimea during the Crimean War, but that obviously failed.

[@hasanhess6861]

Viva for Tatars

[@cr4yv3n]

9:00 russian ATTACK helicopters for protesters? And they got the NERVE to accuse other nations of NAZISM !? Hahahaha

[@vonVince]

Tatars are the closest thing to indigenous people that Crimea has. Tatars came to power in 15th century and they ruled Crimea for 300 years, but their history as Turkic people in Crimea goes back way before that.

[@rahmanhassan169]

The Tartars are happy under Ukraine so let Ukraine rule Crimea.Russia had been cruel people whilst Ukraine people are not

[@user-yx4jd9hz5j]

The tatars don't belong on Russian land, we can either ship them to Mongols or Turks. Crimea is christian land.

[@yo2trader539]

The Crimean Tatars should have their own country.

[@antoniussamuelson3748]

@@yo2trader539 no. They can't feed themself so they rely on ukraine.

[@almfc1]

Hold strong

[@sc0tte1-416]

Is it just me, or is Vice becoming more and more pro-Western and not neutral and un-biased like they used to be?

[@Keinlicht]

It's just you. Vice has always been pro-western.

[@fivemeomedia]

why?

[@sc0tte1-416]

Keinlicht They may have been slightly, but they were still a lot more neutral with stuff than they are now..IE the title of their Ukrainian coverage is assumptive right from the start.

[@Keinlicht]

sc0tte1 I disagree. I just think they haven't always covered topics that expose their bias so much. That said, they still do some great reporting as long as you understand the nature nature of their journalistic perspective.

[@sc0tte1-416]

Keinlicht Fair enough my friend, let's agree to disagree, one thing I don't disagree with is the fact that Vice DOES do amazing reporting! I can't get enough of it and it seems like the world of investigative reporting is disappearing these days, unfortunately.

[@janezjanartic4450]

ooo for F sake we on european continent we will never stop fighting for what we did to each other HOW many years ago i'm so sick and tired of this.... it will never end i hope european union works cuz i can't handle this shit any more

[@irem-mo3eu]

beautiful people ❤️

[@dyucka]

"Icy planes of Uzbekistan" it's like 50 degree C there right now.

[@user-ov9jw7tt7p]

Tatars don't want to live in Russia good, and Russians in Donbass and to the Crimea don't want to live in Ukraine bad, separatists? These are double standards!

[@fromolwyoming]

Except the Tatars aren't shooting down civilian aircraft or anything like that. So, no, not really.

[@KhoaTang293]

Crimea belongs to cuman kipchak federation! go crimea :)

[@llamarioful]

I am glad these people are taking a stand for what they believe in. If some people in the us would also take a stand...

[@CrimeanTatarBoy]

Being a Crimean Tatar and seeing all of these hate comments disgusts me. Why all the hate? What did we ever do to any of you? As a third generation Crimean after the deportation, I don't see why people hate on us. It just astounds me how hurtful all of you are.

[@GamingTaylor]

They've already shown some of this footage back in a previous episode before Crimea was annexed.

[@LoveBD153]

Love u Crimean Tatars from Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤️

[@21boxhead]

Stalin was Georgian how is it you blame Russians?

[@21boxhead]

Cole - The Learner you didn't answer the question how is it you blame Russians if the leader was not Russian?

[@velikiradojica]

Because he ruled from Moscow. People aren't very bright, you know.

[@whitepakistani1153]

Obama is a kenyan and Trump is a german so lets blame kenya and Germany for all shit murica does

[@dafitrasusanto]

brother in middle east or everywhere, please help them.!

[@CeoLogJM]

I dont know about whats going on there. But I must say that I like the choice of thier flag.

[@takashi7150]

Thank you

[@user-pr2hs7zu9y]

God be with you tartars !!! From america 🙋‍♂️🖖

[@ppanternsk]

Omg i really didnt saw riot cops escorting public protests/events evar in my entire life, this is something that would nevar happen in the pure democratic EU or US, no no no nevar

[@sarmansabrangwetan1390]

They are the saddest tribe in Europe. Since the atrocities of the Soviet Union, the Tatar Genocide occurred. They were forced to leave their ancestral homeland on the Crimean peninsula.

[@DK4Private]

93% vote in Crimea.. hahahah .. Putin and Kim jong un should collaberate

[@albo2236]

says the turkish mongol , you invaded cyprus and the kurds....and not to mention Byzantium lol

[@DK4Private]

Invaded? Greeks attacked the Seljuks from Anatolia when they tried to enter Arabia from Persia which they took over. They had no interest in Greek land, but they provoked it and see what happened :) Kurds? Tell me why after the collapse of the Seljuks in Anatolia (nowadays Turkey) there were only made Turkic states in Anatolia and no Kurdish? Albanian gypsy gtfo.. you always ask us Turks for army support cause you suck so hard.

[@albo2236]

Fatal In Albania they are about 3,000 gypsies in turkey over half a million. Albanians are Illyrians....we are WHITE we dont look like turks

[@DK4Private]

Half a million? Lol you like to grab random numbers out of your ass? /watch?v=hnUHgoGn2Fc here, you can see army equipment given from the Turks to the Albanians.. if it wasn't for the Turkish army in northern Kosovo, Serbia wouldve striked at Kosovo a long time ago as we are the largest nato force in Kosovo atm. WHITE BLACK BLABLA, identity crisis analbanian gypsyboy. We're central asians. Go call us mongoloids. Mongols are a mix of Altayics and Chinese. There are only 3 million Mongols and 250 million Turks. Use your brain Analbanian gypsy. white black yellow.. yuk.. typical analbanian with his 1960 way of thinking.

[@Davidn1]

Shut up Tatars. Vlad knows best!

[@TheHawkeye0725]

That's a good one mate

[@Jazzwithlaz]

why didn't they choose to vote during the referendum?

[@joywork4585]

Russia has alot to answer for, they've been running around for years committing atrocious acts against people, time to pay, time for crimean Tatar to take back their home for all time

[@MrEvilmice]

Vice sold out....pity...

[@ManiacSkateboarding]

You may have hate toward Russia's actions because you are misinformed, however you can't deny the fact that Vice is extremely anti-Russia and very biased in their journalism work.

[@fifthgear93]

Reality has an anti-Russia bias.

[@GWGRC]

The Job of Vice News is to cover what the see and hear on the ground and report it to us. Not just the news you want to and see because then that would be biased. There are other dispatches on the Vice News KZbin looking at the DPR Rebels showing there side of the conflict and the peoples point of view inside Donestk. showing on what they have endued during the conflict like the shelling be Ukrainian forces for example. Again like I said earlier They report the news they see and hear not the ones you want to hear because then that would be biased.

[@killercaos123]

Facts aren't biased. Facts are good. Unless you're anti-facts.

[@wigster600]

What i've learnt mostly about Islam from footage Vice news release is that it's mainly about nationalism, which is good, we could do more with that, stay home and improve it. Not going to other nations and cause friction through cultural tensions.

[@NemtYT]

I thought you guys were afraid to go back into Crimea.

[@ShasOKais]

>made us russian at gunpoint Where is your evidences?

[@DanielYusim]

Muhamed Husic - Ibrukic It's not their fucking homeland. Turkey is. And btw, when the Tatars stole Crimea, it was WAY more bloody as was basically Crimea's entire history while they ruled it. Get educated a little.

[@Hruljina]

Daniel Yusim And 17 000 000 square kilometers of todays Russia is Russian homeland hahaha? Why arent you based on principles when it comes to you too? Why dont you abandon all the land east of Ural mountains. You took that from others

[@DanielYusim]

Muhamed Husic - Ibrukic Doesn't negate the absurdity of the Tatars calling Crimea their homeland. There are hundreds of thousands of Russians who are buried under historic cities like Sevastopol who died fighting off the Nazi invasion. What did the Tatars do with Crimea? Hold the world's largest slave-trade?

[@Hruljina]

Daniel Yusim Just like Russians held the larges massacres of non-Russians and force conversions, colonizations etc.. Slave trade is nothing compared to that (and was going on in other countries, so go tell Britain, Portugal and others that they shouldnt exist)

[@ShasOKais]

xXEndLessKaosXx Referendum, what else?

[@sethrogen949]

93% vote my ass.

[@artbasss]

Imagine that Texas was given to Mexico for some stupid reason in 1954. It was and is overwhelmingly populated by english speaking americans. And they have an opportunity to hold a referendum to reunite the US. What would the result of such vote be? I hope you understand it now.

[@saprophycs950]

artbasss When a vote on something in a country has a 90%+ approval rating there is bound to be fraud...

[@1337BananaL33TVostok]

artbasss Russia and Ukraine are not very different, and people did not bother back then, up until March 2014, so no way this was a "simmering conflict". Ukraine have no obligation to let go Crimea, especially when people want to join an other, much larger power. It's just causes a huge diplomatic tension and paves for a future of conflicts.

[@artbasss]

kaizer soze You are actually. Waging wars of aggression all over the world. Killing millions of civilians. And you don't care. Cause you fat belly is stuffed with food. Cause your home wasn't bombed. Cause you live in a TV reality.

[@anizapileges2837]

Ya rabb 🙏☝️

[@quantumeseboy]

The shittiest empire I can think of. If anybody in Europe is still able to sympathize Russia, that's just because they don't know Russia well enough.

[@jarcnuscole1199]

I bet Vice is making Mr Rupert Murdoch proud

[@uostap1]

Татарский народ стал братским для украинцев за время, которое нам довелось прожить вместе. И уж тем более, что у нас есть один большой общий враг. Я надеюсь, что вскоре мы поможем вам отбить Крым от кремлевских лап. И еще, я считаю (и не только я), что крымские татары должны управлять своей землей. То есть Меджилис должен иметь огромные полномочия на полуострове. Ибо это ваша земля.

[@ThisIsATotalMess]

You should make a documentary about the United Nations International Force In Lebanon

[@drdeee6]

that looked like the simplest form of dictatorship

[@candycane1686]

I love how all you guys think Vice is biased when they show how one side of a conflict feels about something. You realize they've been showing other sides of the conflict, too. And when that happens all these dumb polpovs are like "finally Vice shows the truth". God damn.

[@KienyejiChicken]

Their ancestors were powerful but their ancestors erred, causing untold pain to millions of families in the steppes through slave raiding. Now the wheel of karma is visited upon their great great great great grandchildren. The Crimean Tartars can't win against the Russian empire. They have to play smart. Embrace certain aspects of Russian culture and state while keeping their traditions. They should take education more seriously and reach out to the big big world out here instead of being fixated on Crimea.

[@cyberpunksoldier5047]

Well during the Crimean Tatar Slave trade of Circassians, millions of Circassians were enslaved by Crimean Tatars mainly through raiding but also forcing the Circassians which they achieved suzerainty over to give them many slaves every year, and giving thousands of slaves to the Crimean Khanate whenever a Crimean Tatar Khan ascended the throne. Most Circassians who were enslaved during the Circassian Slave Trade during the Ottoman , were enslaved by the Crimean Tatars. Like according to Ottoman records roughly 2 million Circassians were brought to the Ottoman Empire mainly from the Crimean Khanate slave Markets, with the number of Circassians being brought to the Ottoman Empire certainly higher than what the Ottoman records tell us. For people who brought enslave people in the Ottoman Empire to sell, would like to under report the number of enslave people they brought as to pay less taxes. Like the Crimean Khanate Slave Markets, the enslave Circassians their were primary enslaved by Crimean Tatars during their slave raids. More than 2 million Circassians were enslaved by the Crimean Tatars, with most the enslave Circassians being made into sexual slaves who had have sex with the Turkish Slave Owner who purchased them or die very cruelly, like disgustingly. It is also important to note that for every Circassian enslave by the Crimean Tatars through the raid, and brought too the Crimean Tatar Slave Market, which the Ottomans called the Avrat Pazari, which means Wife Bazaar, their were many other people who died in the raids, and few more who died on the way to the Slave Market

[@jackal192]

So whats your point?Are the innocent crimeans who died in 1944 either from starvation or execution did these crimes?

[@funwithbell7207]

Why did Tatars enslaved Circassians ?? I know that Circassians people is Muslim by faith,why then Ottoman empire don't protected them ??

[@Somali.Pirate1]

@@funwithbell7207 because it's a lie, Muslims did not enslave Muslims whether black, white, brown, yellow, or green. In fact most circassians fled the USSR to settle in Muslim lands like Turkey.

[@anthonywest4173]

BLESS TARTAR PEOPLE.

[@Farah_quddubi]

The Ummah☪️ is with you. May Allah SWT free our Tartar brothers and sisters from Russian oppression. Love from Somalia 🇸🇴.

[@Ucmilyaryediyuzellimilyon]

its Tatar* not Tartar

[@basedkaiser5352]

Crimea belongs to Russia 🇷🇺

[@abhi739]

wow enslaver of black people racist somali talking about oppression, joke of the year

[@christopherkalonji7056]

5:43 "It seems to be a Special Forces signature." Oh, you're in the Special Forces... No? Than how the hell do you know? Just adding unnecessary theatrics for the camera. As far as I'm concerned, I don't know the facts of the story behind the kidnapping, and this video, just makes shit more confusing.

[@IvaWing]

in Russia Special Forces are special [not because they are deadly or living any dope_extremists/violent_terrorists signs] because they are smarter, wiser and stronger then most other officers. They find best solution to save more lives faster then the others. // [just what the hell are 7:25 non-responsibility smiles and aggressive/disturb screams & faces terrifying all the streets?] [look at how 7:44 ones don't understand why to calm down] [9:08 typical words and moves of egoistic dictator; he doesn't want piece, he provoking even more gigantic aggression and hate]

[@existentialvoid]

reading these comments, I see vice on youtube is beset with fans of RT - seriously. I cannot imagine many actual vice news viewers think the Tartars don't have a lot to fear right now. . .

[@Wideolink]

Slava Ukraine! Slava Crimean Tatars! Crimea=Ukraine!

[@abu_biricik]

Crimea je crimea Crimea je muslmans

[@jackal192]

Crimeans are tatars not ukraniens.

[@septicus]

Vay benim çileli milletim...

[@YouTube_is_full_of_trolls]

The USSR collapsed and yet Russia hasn't learned anything. Every time a Russian or Putin wants to move closer to Soviet times, America should smile and assist

[@YouTube_is_full_of_trolls]

Guaranteed disaster

[@alfiehudson158]

I hope the Tartars get what they want whether it be an independent state or not

[@art27e]

The population of Crimea Russians 58,5% Ukrainians 24,4% Crimean tatars 12,1%

[@LichlordKazam]

Damn. 82,9% foreigners. What happened to the tatars?

[@nothin8611]

Nice, its a new Chechnya, Russia will be Ready for Crimean Tatars :) :) :) and by the way, many Chechens are now Fighting on the Russia side in Eastern Ukraine :)

[@phuckyall6079]

Nothin will they fight Muslims? Many will not be able to do it

[@1979koten]

They should back to mongal

[@MrsAmeen-kv2ej]

Plight of Cremian Tatar is horrible.