An angry rant against Crimean Tatars has landed Russian actor Aleksei Panin in hot water. Panin made the remarks after being involved in a minor road accident with an ethnic Crimean Tatar on August 20 during a theater tour in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
Witnesses say Panin, 35, struck the driver during an altercation after the famous actor rammed his own car into the other vehicle. In a subsequent media interview, Panin condescendingly called the driver a “Tatar boy” and said he had “slapped him in the face a little.”
He also expressed regret that there were still some Crimean Tatars “whom Stalin had not finished off in 1944,” referring to the World War II deportation of Crimean Tatars during which thousands of them perished.
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