2/ The Soviet NKVD deported around 200,000 Crimean Tatars to Central Asia in just 3 days from May 18-20, 1944. Families had only 30 minutes to gather belongings before being crammed into cattle wagons. 8,000 died during the arduous journey.
1944: Soviet NKVD deported 200,000 Crimean Tatars, thousands died.
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