Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to take part in events marking Victory Day in Sevastopol May 9, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
BAKHCHISARAY Crimea (Reuters) - Seventy years after their families' mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland's new Russian authorities or resist them?
Some Tatars - Sunni Muslims of Turkic origin - fear a return to Stalinist repression despite official promises to respect their rights and freedoms; others say dealing with Russia is the best way of ensuring their people can flourish.
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