Bob - that's a lot nicer!

Jack - I think you're conflating two different periods. Jewish colonisation of Crimea was organised from within the USSR between 1924 and 1932; Jewish families were resettled from Russia and Ukraine as well as coming to the region voluntarily from outside the USSR. The project was part-funded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which set up a group called Agro-Joint to help organise it. Land was 'redistributed' to the new settlements from the local population - which was majority Tatar, but also included Russian and German speakers - but there were no massacres or deportations. The massacres (of Jews) started in 1942, and the deportation (of Tatars) in 1944.

I wouldn't sing Hey Zhankoye myself - I don't think it's a particularly glorious episode in anyone's history - but the background isn't as bad as you suggested.