MEP and former Polish Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga said that no other country has brought so much grief and suffering as Russia. This is known from her article.
“The 80 years since the genocidal deportation of the Crimean Tatar people are not merely a tragedy for the Crimean Tatars; they constitute a systemic diagnosis and a historical warning of the nature of Russian imperialism,” – she wrote.
She writes that no other country has caused as much grief and misery as Russia.
“The Crimean Tatars are but one of numerous peoples who have suffered from Moscow’s expansionist policies over the course of three consecutive centuries. Moscow first deprived the Crimean Tatars of their state territories, and then of their statehood on the Crimean Peninsula and the adjacent regions. These territories are currently witnessing fierce battles for Ukrainian independence.. In the late 18th century, Crimean Tatars, along with Poles and Ukrainians, fell into the hands of Russian imperialism, and the first thing Moscow did was strike at the historical memory of these peoples. The blow to the Crimean Tatars was so profound that by the end of the 19th century, they were on the brink of total extinction,”- she notes.
She concludes the article by saying that the liberation of Crimea must be the principal objective for Ukraine’s victory.