History of Tatar diaspora and their perception in Finland. Racial hierarchies in 20th century not only in Finnish space, but also in Tatars’ own understanding of race concept towards themselves.
Regardless of which ethnonym the Turkic-speaking Muslims
of the Middle Volga region used for themselves, the Russians would find
a way to twist it to a slur, and therefore they might as well go by “Tatar”
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https://taplink.cc/tatar.identity
https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/ainur-elmgren
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ainur-Elmgren