The mainstream media in the West are currently wringing their hands over the fate of the Crimean Tatars, whom they describe as the original inhabitants of that region, and whose rights they fear may be infringed by a re-establishment of lawful authority in an "inalienable" part of the Ukraine that has only been a part of the Ukraine for sixty-odd years.
That of course is nothing but a complete mischaracterisation of the truth. Less politely, a lie. The Crimean Tatars were Islamic invaders into Europe, who established a state that over several centuries depopulated huge areas of the surrounding, ethnically European and Christian countries, sending the captives off to the slave markets -- those whom they didn't simply kill for sport.
From the 14th to the 17th centuries they took about 3 million Europeans and sold them in the slave markets of the Ottoman Turks. In the words of the French Duke Antoine de Gramont, who witnessed these events for himself, "the Tatars slit the throats of all men over 60 years old who were thought to be incapable of work, forty-year-olds were saved for the galleys, young boys for their pleasure and girls and women to continue their kind and then later to be sold. The prisoners were divided equally and lots were cast according to age so that no one could complain that he had gotten more old ones than young."
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