May 18, 1944: the deportation¬¬ – remember all, let us not forget those who have not returned

On may 16 in the Crimean Tatar Academic Music and Drama Theatre hosted the Requiem dedicated to the 70-th anniversary of the Day of memory of victims of deportation.
Before the mourning events performed the national anthem of Russia, the anthem of the Republic of Crimea and Crimean Tatar national anthem. The crowd observed a minute of silence in memory of victims of deportation.

According to the First Vice-speaker of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Grigory Ioffe, the tragedy of the Crimean Tatar people 70 years ago is not to be forgotten. Deportation is a crime of the totalitarian Stalinist regime, which will always be a severe lesson for us and our descendants, and this should never be repeated.