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Portland. USA.

@midnightmovies

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Abandoned Pripyat, Ukraine.

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Autumn at Canberra Airport, Australia. May 2023.

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The Australian War Memorial and Anzac Parade from Mount Ainslie, Canberra under heavy fog. 19th May 2020. X

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Canberra, Australia under heavy fog. 19th May 2020.

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Princess Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte of Prussia, later Duchess of Brunswick

German vintage postcard

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Elaborate midday menu from Titanic's first full day at sea

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18th-20th May 1944: russian soldiers, on Stalin’s orders, load the entire native Tatar population of Crimea onto cattle trains to be deported. Many did not survive.

russia would again begin ethnic cleansing of the peninsula when they illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

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18th-20th May 1944: russian soldiers, on Stalin’s orders, load the entire native Tatar population of Crimea onto cattle trains to be deported. Many did not survive.

russia would again begin ethnic cleansing of the peninsula when they illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

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1945: The village of Uskut, Crimea after Stalin's deportation of the entire native population of the Crimean Tatars from the 18th-20th of May 1944.

russian colonisers had yet to move into the houses.

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1944: Crimean Tatars hold a funeral in Krasnovishersk, Molotov Region, RSFSR after being deported from their homeland on Stalin's orders in May that year.

Many Tatars did not survive deportation.

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1944: Crimean Tatars hold a funeral in Krasnovishersk, Molotov Region, RSFSR after being deported from their homeland on Stalin's orders in May that year.

Many Tatars did not survive deportation.

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Canberra, Australia under heavy fog. 19th May 2020.

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Crimean Tatars in exile after being deported by the russians on Stalin's orders in May 1944.

As they did again in 2014, the Kremlin aimed to colonise the peninsula with many ethnic russians.

The entire native Tatar population of Crimea was deported by cattle train in only a few days, beginning on the 18th of May and concluding on the 20th. Many did not survive.

Sources:

WHERE ARE OUR PEOPLE?

Deportation of the Crimean Tatars

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'Cats and Kittens' by Edgar S. Werner, 1906

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by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

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Sunset over Lake Burley Griffin and the National Library of Australia, Canberra.