Yodgor Nasriddinova

Yodgor Sodiqovna Nasriddinova (26 December 1920 – 7 April 2006) was an Uzbek-Soviet engineer, communist party operative and high ranking member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. After serving in a variety of posts in the Komsomol, she rose through the ranks of the Uzbek SSR and became a deputy in the Supreme Soviet from 1958 to 1974. Between 1959 and 1970, she was the Deputy Chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and subsequently the chair of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet until 1974. Purged from the Communist Party in 1988 after the death of Leonid Brezhnev due to ongoing corruption investigations and Uzbek cotton scandal, she was soon rehabilitated and restored to party membership in 1991 despite her rivalry with Sharof Rashidov, implication in corruption scandals, and staunch opposition to the Crimean Tatar civil rights movement.

Quotes

• Crimean Tatars will not be returned to Crimea...You will live in Uzbekistan forever. There are decrees of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on this.
  • «Крымские татары не будут возвращены в Крым… Вы вечно будет жить в Узбекистане. На это есть указы Верховного Совета СССР…»
    • Nasriddinova's statement on the Crimean Tatar issue when asked about the Crimean Tatar National Question when visiting the village of South Alamyshik

• I repeat, you will not go anywhere, we have a common homeland for the USSR. People live in Crimea, and there is no place for you there.
  • «Повторяю, никуда вы не поедете, у нас СССР общая родина. В Крыму живут люди, и вам там нет места.»
    • Nasriddinova's statement on the Crimean Tatars reaffirming her opposition to right of return

Quotes about Nasriddinova

• Nasriddinova insists that we should eat Uzbek bread, in Crimea they think we are robbers and lazy people. Where should we go?! The moon?
  • «Насриддинова упрекает, что мы едим узбекский хлеб, в Крыму нас считают разбойниками и лентяями. Куда нам деваться?!! На Луну?»
    • Letter by Crimean Tatar reminising about the national issue that demonstrated the extent of Nasriddinova's insistence on assimilation into Uzbeks. Bekirova, Gulnara (2004) (in ru). Крымскотатарская проблема в СССР: 1944-1991. Оджак. ISBN 978-966-8535-06-2. 

• We understand Comrade Y.S. Nasriddinova wants the Crimean Tatar people only as a labor force, without a national homeland and without national equality...
  • «Мы хорошо понимаем тов. Насриддинову Я.С., что крымскотатарский народ нравится ей только как рабочая сила, он ей нравится без национальной родины и без национального равноправия…»
    • Letter from Crimean Tatar civil rights activists to Pravda Vostoka newspaper criticizing Nasridinova's position on the Crimean Tatar National Question contradictory to Leninist principles