More background info on the situation in Ukraine.
The
Tatars, AKA “Tartars” (people from Hell), are a Turkic people that comprise about 12% of the population of the Crimean Peninsula. Some 60
% of the rest of the population of Crimea are ethnic Russians who want
to rejoin with Russia propper. The Tatars were originally vassals of
Genghis Kahn’s Mongol Empire and were part of the Mongol “Golden Horde”
that conquered Russia and occupied it for many centuries. Later, as the
Mongol Empire disintegrated, the Taters converted to Islam became
vassals of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan in Istanbul (Constantinople). In
1788 the Russian Czar conquered the Crimea and the Tatars finally went
from being rulers of southern Russia and Ukraine to being a conquered
and stateless people themselves.
By Epictetus
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