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March 16 2014
How Russians Became Crimea's Largest Ethnic Group, In One Haunting Chart
Gus Lubin
Crimea may have a majority Russian population today, but it hasn't
always been that way.
The peninsula's dark history of ethnic cleansing is visible in the
following chart from Reuters.
The chart shows a collapse in the population of native Crimean Tatars
from 34.1% in 1987 to zero in 1959, marking brutal harassment leading
up to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's forcible deportation of the entire
population in 1944, with nearly half dying in the process. It took
decades for the population to climb back to 12% by 2001.
While the population of Ukrainians and especially Russians rose, the
percentage of the population falling into an unlisted category also
fell from more than 20% in 1921 to around 5% in 1959. This was a
consequence of the deportation of Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, and
other groups.
With a history like this -- and a similarly tragic history across
Ukraine -- it's not hard to see why many say it is unfair not to
mention illegal to make Crimeans take a referendum on joining Russia.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/crimea-demographics-chart-2014-3
From: A. Papazian
March 16 2014
How Russians Became Crimea's Largest Ethnic Group, In One Haunting Chart
Gus Lubin
Crimea may have a majority Russian population today, but it hasn't
always been that way.
The peninsula's dark history of ethnic cleansing is visible in the
following chart from Reuters.
The chart shows a collapse in the population of native Crimean Tatars
from 34.1% in 1987 to zero in 1959, marking brutal harassment leading
up to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's forcible deportation of the entire
population in 1944, with nearly half dying in the process. It took
decades for the population to climb back to 12% by 2001.
While the population of Ukrainians and especially Russians rose, the
percentage of the population falling into an unlisted category also
fell from more than 20% in 1921 to around 5% in 1959. This was a
consequence of the deportation of Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, and
other groups.
With a history like this -- and a similarly tragic history across
Ukraine -- it's not hard to see why many say it is unfair not to
mention illegal to make Crimeans take a referendum on joining Russia.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/crimea-demographics-chart-2014-3
From: A. Papazian