That has been related by historians. Unfortunately, the Tatars who went back were pretty few, and the majority of the people in Crimea chose to stay with Russia after the invasion of 2014...
How many times can you be moved forcefully from one place to another with half the people dying along the way? Russia has a horrible reputation for mass genocide. It’s one thing to make a choice and quite another to have the reality of being forced to live under the hopefully lesser of two evils. If many of those people would have known that a war hero like zelinski would organize against the insolence of Putin and his minions they may have set foot outside their conquered land. Although it is still questionable 🤨 whether the NATO nations will keep supporting Zelinski and his resistance to outer genocide.
Think of the American Indians and you have a similar occurrence in history. Many of them are in barren lands now rather than be separated again and face the possible consequences of the American settlers, who violated every known treaty.
