Crimean Tatar genocide commemorated in Germany (PHOTO)

In the center of Berlin, a demonstration dedicated to the day of memory of the victims of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people is taking place.

On the night of May 18, 1944, the Soviet authorities committed one of their most terrible crimes. By order of Stalin, all Crimean Tatars - women, children, and elderly people - were forcibly put into freight cars and taken to Siberia and Middle Asia. According to various estimates, from 25 to 46% of Crimean Tatars died because of the deportation. For decades, even the ethnonym "Crimean Tatar" was banned. Crimeans were able to return to their homeland only when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Official mourning events on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the Soviet genocide are currently taking place in Ukraine and almost all over the world, except for Crimea, where for the tenth year in a row the Russian occupiers are subjecting the Crimean Tatars to new repressions. In Berlin, near the Brandenburg Gate, hundreds of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians gathered in the evening. See photos and videos on how they reminded Europe about the Soviet genocide and Russian torture.