Thread by @VlStarodubtsev

1/ On the 13th of December, Kurultai of crimean-tatar people declared the creation of a Crimean Democratic Republic. It was a left-democratic muslim republic, and a first muslim state to give voting rights to women and declare equality between nations, languages and cultures.

2/ Republic’s leading party was «Milliy Fırqa» — „a people’s party”. In its program party agitated for socialization of industry and land, on the principle „one owns as much land as can work by himself without employers”

3/ "All the land belongs to the communities" (jamaats). Each person was guaranteed as much land as he or she could cultivate. Treasury, private, office, and landlord lands were subject to alienation without compensation.

4/ The party advocated a democratic parliamentary republic, with freedom of assembly, trade unions, party activities, individual freedom and inviolability, liquidation of estates. Party also held high the value of national freedom, equality of languages, cultures and peoples.

5/ It was a muslim party, so their rule was based on modern interpretation of Sharia law, but at the same time, it was a multicultural republic with national-personal autonomy and wide array of rights for non-muslim population.

6/ In the economic block of the program, the socialization of factories and enterprises was declared as a goal, "...In the labor question, Milliy Firqa completely in solidarity with the demands of the Social Democrats."

7/ unfortunately, a few days after declaration of Republic, Bolsheviks dispersed soviets in Sevastopol and established military-revolutionary commitee, practically starting a war with CDR. In a montg, Crimea was occupied by better equiped and numerous Russian-bolshevik forces

8/ in January 1918 they fully occupied the Crimea and shot the most prominent representatives of the Crimean authorities, including the head of the government, poet and well-known socialist Noman Chelebidzhikhan. Red terror in Crimea was one of the cruelest.

9/ Not only Red, but White, French and German forces occupied Crimea, all equally hostile to Crimean self-determination. Left-wing of the Milliy Firqa, which decided to support bolsheviks were outlawed the last — in 1920. And court processes against them started in 1927-1928

10/ Ukrainian socialists remember and are inspired by the revolutionary experience of Crimean people at that time and consider it necessary to remember episodes of heroic struggle for social and national liberation.

Edit: on december of 1917