Odds of a Crimean Tatar Republic post-1918

The Avenger

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The Germans can detach Crimea from Ukraine, win WWI, and create a Crimean Tatar state there which allies with Germany.
 
There was a Crimean ASSR, and Tatars did play an important role in it. Consider the names of the Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars of the Crimean ASSR:

Council of People's Commissars[edit]
November 11, 1921 – May 16, 1924 Sakhib-Garey Said-Galiyev
May 16, 1924 – May 1924 I.Goncharov (acting)
May 1924 – March 21, 1926 Osman Deren-Ayerly
March 21, 1926 – May 1929 Emir Shugu
May 1929 – September 16, 1937 Abduraim Samedinov (arrested September 17, 1937)
1937 – April 5, 1942 Memet Ibraimov
April 5, 1942 – May 18, 1944 Ismail Seyfullayev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic

But the problem with making it a specifically Tatar state is that even in 1926 the Tatars were only 25.1% of the population of Crimea (the figure was down to 19.4% in 1939). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea
 

The Avenger

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There was a Crimean ASSR, and Tatars did play an important role in it. Consider the names of the Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars of the Crimean ASSR:

Council of People's Commissars[edit]
November 11, 1921 – May 16, 1924 Sakhib-Garey Said-Galiyev
May 16, 1924 – May 1924 I.Goncharov (acting)
May 1924 – March 21, 1926 Osman Deren-Ayerly
March 21, 1926 – May 1929 Emir Shugu
May 1929 – September 16, 1937 Abduraim Samedinov (arrested September 17, 1937)
1937 – April 5, 1942 Memet Ibraimov
April 5, 1942 – May 18, 1944 Ismail Seyfullayev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic

But the problem with making it a specifically Tatar state is that even in 1926 the Tatars were only 25.1% of the population of Crimea (the figure was down to 19.4% in 1939). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea
If Stalin wants to get really nasty, he could deport the Volga Tatars to Crimea and create a general Tatar state in Crimea.
 
There was a Crimean ASSR, and Tatars did play an important role in it. Consider the names of the Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars of the Crimean ASSR:

Council of People's Commissars[edit]
November 11, 1921 – May 16, 1924 Sakhib-Garey Said-Galiyev
May 16, 1924 – May 1924 I.Goncharov (acting)
May 1924 – March 21, 1926 Osman Deren-Ayerly
March 21, 1926 – May 1929 Emir Shugu
May 1929 – September 16, 1937 Abduraim Samedinov (arrested September 17, 1937)
1937 – April 5, 1942 Memet Ibraimov
April 5, 1942 – May 18, 1944 Ismail Seyfullayev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic

But the problem with making it a specifically Tatar state is that even in 1926 the Tatars were only 25.1% of the population of Crimea (the figure was down to 19.4% in 1939). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea
so get another person other than stalin in charge, one that's not so prone to ethnic cleansing and general asshatery.
 
That's why I suggested having Stalin deport the Volga Tatars to Crimea as a part of his nation-building project.

Why would he want a Tatar majority in an area rather close to the USSR's western border--especially since some Crimean Tatars had German/Turkish sympathies during World War I?
 

The Avenger

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Why would he want a Tatar majority in an area rather close to the USSR's western border--especially since some Crimean Tatars had German/Turkish sympathies during World War I?
What about deporting Crimea's Tatars to the Volga region?
 
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