In this Q&A session, the Ukrainian activist and politician Tamila Tasheva speaks about the Crimean Tatars' history from the time under the Soviet regime in the 1940s to current events.
The Soviet and now the Russian authorities, in order to deal with a group of people [like the Crimean Tatars], have always tried to brand them as criminals, and as criminals who would be condemned by everyone around them and isolated. Here the strategy is the same although the words for marking people are different.