NEW YORK — Nariman Asanov says all was not lost when the Soviet Union drove the Crimean Tatars from their homeland more than 75 years ago.
“We survived all those years in exile with very strong sense of cultural involvement,” says Asanov. “Basically, we survived because of our strong sense of culture.”
Asanov arrived in New York in 1994 with his violin and the national flag of Crimea, a peninsula that juts into the Black Sea from Ukraine.
He was just 21-years-old, and says he was relieved to find others from Crimea in the city.
“It was just enormous for us to see that we lost
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