Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Life Inside Putin’s Crimea" video.

Tatars are the indigenous people of Crimea, and have long been persecuted by Russia. Most Tatars were ethnically cleansed by Russia following WWII. While the majority in Crimea today are of Russian origin, Russia violated its treaty with Ukraine and stole Crimea from it, in the largest military land grab since WWII. The so called "referendum" held by Russia in Crimea did not have a choice for the people of Crimea to vote to stay with Ukraine, and most boycotted it, with only a 30% turnout, half voting for Crimean autonomy rather than a Russian takeover.
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@g1u2y345 ~ Nothing you said changes the facts stated in my comment, so your objection is rather pointless. Crimean Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group and nation, who are an indigenous people of Crimea. The formation and ethnogenesis of Crimean Tatars occurred during the 13th–17th centuries, from Cumans that appeared in Crimea in the 10th century, with strong contributions from all the peoples who ever inhabited Crimea, including Greeks, Italians and Goths. Crimean Tatars constituted the majority of Crimea's population from the time of ethnogenesis until the mid-19th century, and the largest ethnic population until the end of the 19th century. Almost immediately after the retaking of Crimea from Axis forces, in May 1944, the USSR State Defense Committee ordered the deportation of all of the Crimean Tatars from Crimea, including the families of Crimean Tatars serving in the Soviet Army. The deportees were transported in trains and boxcars to Central Asia, primarily to Uzbekistan. The Crimean Tatars lost a significant portion of their population as a result of the deportation.
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@g1u2y345 ~ Argue with the Association of Indigenous Peoples and all the other experts and nations who classify Tatars as the indigenous people of Crimea. Argue with all of those people who identify, and have identified, as Tatars. Your analogy is fatally flawed and unconvincing, as it ignores the movement and mixing of peoples throughout the centuries in that part of Europe from surrounding areas. You're trying to compare that ethnogenesis with the colonization of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the Western Hemisphere by Spain six centuries later, which is ignorant.
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@g1u2y345 ~ Like I said, argue with the Association of Indigenous Peoples and the experts. You won't do that, of course, because you know the case you are trying to make is complete BS. Personally, I find your arguments rather ignorant, narrow-minded, and unconvincing, and the sum of your replies to constitute intellectual dishonesty. Trying to educate people who are stupid, pig-headed, dishonest and don't want to be educated is a waste of time. From the start, it's been obvious that all you've been doing is trying to blow smoke. And what is it, anyway, that you hoped to prove; that Russia's ethnic cleansing of Tatars and its Crimean land grab from Ukraine wasn't wrong? You're defending crimes against humanity and Putin? Really?
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@g1u2y345 ~ Actually, you're just projecting, because throughout your replies it is you who has chosen to ignore the major points and arguments of my comment. Just as you don't answer the straightforward questions in my last reply about what it was you hoped to prove. You also seem to mistakenly believe it is my job or somehow incumbent upon me to educate you or convince you. News flash----you couldn't be more wrong. I understand why the Tatars are considered indigenous to Crimea, you do not. You could educate yourself to find out why, but you choose not to do so, apparently because that conflicts with what you wish to believe. In your hubris, you presume to know more than the experts who study those things. To reiterate, your dishonesty and willful ignorance means trying to have any kind of constructive discussion with you is just a waste of my time. Hence, you're welcome to have the last word if you wish, but this is my final reply to you.
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