>>42162The original inhabitants of Crimea were ethnic Tatars before the first Crimea war between Russia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Stalin would later boot out the Tatars and sent them to Siberia to mine coal and starve to death for the LoLz and replaced the peninsula's inhabitants with Russo-Slavic and Ukrainian settlers as a desperate attempts at a piece offering after WW2 to avoid further conflict since Holol's joined the Axis in the later half of the war as retribution for the 'Holodomor' so they've had a long history of doing fucked up shit to each other for laughs long before now, it certainly worked at the time but clearly given recent events over the past few years it wasn't gonna last forever.
Tatar's are an offshoot of ancient Turkic and Mongolian hordes which is why the Ottoman empire laid claim to it in the past under the basis of liberation for them.