Window on Eurasia reports [1]: “Tatar nationalists have appealed to the United Nations to recognize the 1921-22 famine in the Middle Volga as a genocide organized by Bolshevik Russia to destroy the Tatar nation and its elite and reduce Tatarstan’s opportunities to develop its own national life and pursue its independence.”
Russia: Tatars Ask UN to Condemn 1921 Famine as Genocide
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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