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On Friday, July 12, the Polish Sejm adopted a resolution to commemorate the victims of the 1944 genocide of Crimean Tatars, who were deported from Crimea by the Soviet authorities, according to PAP. It is reported that 414 deputies voted in favor of the resolution, 16 were against, and two abstained. According to the resolution, on the morning of May 18, 1944, the USSR authorities began the deportation of Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula. Within three days, nearly 200,000 men, women, and children were herded into cattle cars and deported to Central Asia and Siberia in inhumane conditi…

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