It’s a bit more complicated than that. The historical and relatively recent mass starvation, persecution, mass murder and forcing into gulags is likely relevant. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars
While I will not deny that a certain amount of bad blood still exists due to the deportation, I think most Tatars more concerned about their current livelihood (though I have talked only with 2 tatars, so my sample size is quite small).
You have 2 more personal sources than I do.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_T...
Seemed like successful psyops by Putin to me. I guess if Ukraine had blocked VK sooner, not many people had been particularly much pro Putin.
Of course now Putin continues with psyops via Facebook but that's harder for him than via VK.
Ask any Russian abroad if he wants to come back to his "free" fatherland
For example there were opinion polls done by western polling orgs in Crimea where the vast majority supported unification with Russia. It's not hard to understand. Salaries in Russia are ~10x what they are in Ukraine for the same job. Economically they're not comparable, and that's before you get to the whole conflict in Ukraine starting because the government was overthrown by rebels supporting a new government that amongst its first acts, banned the Russian language.
Remember that Ukraine's response to the peaceful annexation was to cut off Crimea's entire electricity supply. That's hardly the work of a friendly government trying to help its loved citizens. Russia had to send in generator ships, if I recall correctly.
Not sure how accurate it is though.
Man, are saying this in your right mind? Where do you read this stuff?
People there abandoned their property, and ran! This is what they did.
Nobody openly welcomed it in their sane minds, besides few thousands elderly ex-party members, and alt-right weirdos.
The fact that I hear sentiments like this in the West is the direct proof that Russian psyops truly work.