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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commemorated the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviets and drew comparisons with Russia’s occupation of Crimea. “Today, as we commemorate the victims of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and condemn Russia’s abuse of Crimea, we feel that Russian evil is not and will not be all-powerful,” he said in his evening video address on Saturday. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had the Crimean Tatars deported to Central Asia in present-day Uzbekistan on May 18, 1944, due to their cooperation with the Wehrmacht and the German occu…

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