Your challenge is to find a way for a Crimean Tatar state to exist in 1918 during the Russian revolution and to survive.
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.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.But the Tatars were a minority in Crimea even before Stalin's ethnic cleansing. Indeed, even in 1897 they were only 35.55% if the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea
That's why I suggested having Stalin deport the Volga Tatars to Crimea as a part of his nation-building project.
What about deporting Crimea's Tatars to the Volga region?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?
Defeats the purposes of this thread, and they are different though related peoples.What about deporting Crimea's Tatars to the Volga region?