Samira Aliyeva, a fourth-grade student in Russian-occupied Crimea, should have been praised for her homework assignment about her great-grandfather, a WWII veteran and victim of Stalin’s 1944 Deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar people. Instead, her teacher traumatized Samira and the other Crimean Tatar children in the class by repeating, as fact, the lies used by Stalin’s regime to justify an act of genocide. The incident has aroused outrage, but no official comment, and there is nothing to suggest that it could not happen again. It was only after a major scandal in 2019 that similar lies were removed from a history textbook for schoolchildren.
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Halya Coynash: A teacher tells children their grandparents deserved Stalin’s Deportation
Children hold the Crimean Tatar flag on Independence Square in Kyiv on May 18, 2020 during a rally marking the 76th anniversary of the deportation of the indigenous population of Crimea by the Soviet Union.
