Tatar Legion collab’d during the occupation, the government deported a bunch of minorities from Crimea at the same time to ‘secure’ the area around Sevastopol. I guess its comparable to a southern Kaliningrad.

The resettlement program was not needed and fucked up. The idea was for internal security (why the NKVD did it) because the party got away from ingratiating itself to minorities and lifting them up over what amounted to neo-russification. A goddamn SS brigade who would’ve been torn apart by their neighbors post-war isn’t an excuse.