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==Background==
In 1921, the [[Crimea in the Soviet Union|Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]] was created as part of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]]. Throughout its time the Soviet Union, Crimea underwent a population change. As a result of alleged collaboration with the Germans by [[Crimean Tatars]] during [[World War II]], [[Deportation of the Crimean Tatars|all Crimean Tatars were deported]] by the Soviet regime and the peninsula was resettled with other peoples, mainly Russians and Ukrainians. Modern experts say that the deportation was part of the Soviet [[Turkish Straits crisis|plan to gain access]] to the [[Dardanelles]] and acquire territory in [[Turkey]], where the Tatars had Turkic ethnic kin, or to remove minorities from the Soviet Union's border regions.{{sfn|Bezverkha|2017|p=127}}
Nearly 8,000 Crimean Tatars died during the deportation, and tens of thousands perished subsequently due to the harsh exile conditions.{{sfn|Rywkin|1994|p=67}} The Crimean Tatar deportation resulted in the abandonment of 80,000 households and 360,000 acres of land.
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