The authorities of the Independent 26 years after the declaration of independence as a result of the collapse of the USSR concerned about the history of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars a year before the end of the Great Patriotic War. On Thursday, May 18, tragic for the entire Crimean Tatar people, it became known that the Ukrainian prosecutor's office suspected the head of the Soviet state Joseph Stalin and People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenti Beria in involvement in this crime.

The so-called Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (ARC), which is based in Kiev and is part of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, intends to inform Iosif Vissarionovich and Lavrenty Pavlovich about suspicion of deportation of Crimean Tatars.

The Prosecutor General's Office noted that in December 2015 an investigation was opened in criminal proceedings on the fact of forced relocation in 1944. Crimean Tatar people and representatives of other national groups from the territory of the Crimean ASSR.

As reported today on the website of the department, "with the aim of restoring historical justice in the shortest possible time, investigators of the prosecutor's office made maximum efforts to obtain conclusive evidence of the guilt of the Soviet authorities".

The prosecutor's statement says that by this time more than 250 potentially injured families have been identified, "and this is more than 1,000 people". Also processed from the requests to dozens of universities, archives and libraries of information and on its basis "compiled 103 inspection protocols for these documents".

"To date, the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has collected enough evidence to report suspicion and drafts of reports on suspicion of committing a criminal offense under Part 1 of Article 442 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (" Genocide "), Stalin Iosif Vissarionovich and Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich, - said the head of the supervisory department Gunduz Mamedov.

He assured the public that this is only the beginning. "In the framework of this pre-trial investigation, other participants will be identified, previously we identified the direct executors of this criminal order," Mammadov said during a meeting with Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko.

Day of Remembrance of Victims of Deportation of the Peoples of Crimea annually takes place on May 18. On this day in 1944. By decision of the State Defense Committee of the USSR, the first echelon of the Crimean Tatars, Greeks, Bulgarians, Germans, Armenians and other peoples inhabiting the republic was sent from the peninsula to Central Asia. The operation was carried out by the NKVD. Officially, the eviction was justified by the facts of the participation of the Crimean Tatars "in collaborationist formations, who spoke on the side of Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War".

The transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR was carried out in February 1954. On the basis of the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Memorial Day was established by the decision of the Supreme Council of Crimea in 1994. And on April 21, 2014, after the annexation of the peninsula to Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on measures to rehabilitate the Armenian, Bulgarian, Greek, Crimean-Tatar and German peoples and state support for their revival and development ".