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When Soviet soldiers knocked on the door of the Usta family home, Tair Bey was only 7 years old. There were eight children at home that day. The only things their mother took on the road were the Koran and a sewing machine. Usta barely remembers the road into exile, but his eyes are still haunted by the images of the dead bodies being pulled out of the rail cars. The Usta family was relocated several times. Tair Usta tried to return to Crimea for the first time in ’67, but no one was waiting for the Crimean Tatars there. Yet Tair Usta swore that he would definitely come back home. Ten years later he indeed kept his word. |