This article offers the complete history of the military conquests between the Slavic Russians and the Islamic Tatar Jihad in Russia around modern Ukraine. The article also offers the history of the later returning military expulsion and massacre of the Muslims there by the returning Slavs of Russia from 1200 onward, especially under Stalin's sociopolitical policies.

The region of the Crimea (today the southern tip of Ukraine) has acted for nearly a millennium as the buffer zone between the west and north (the Slavic Christian world), and the east and south (the Islamic Turkic world). This geographic volatility has caused the region of modern Ukraine and the Crimea to change hands between various Turkic Islamic (Tatar) armies and those of growing European empires. The endless ethnic conflict between the Turkic peoples and the Slavs (which continues today), as well as the war between the the Slavs' Christian colonial conquest and the Islamic Jihad, are all epitomized in the Crimea and the Eurasian steppes.

Before the Mongol invasion of the 13th century, Central Asia west of Mongolia was populated by Sunni Muslim Turkic peoples collectively and derogatorily called "Tatars" (though today the Tatars themselves have embraced this heritage) who settled in modern Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the eastern Volga, and southern Siberia. The Tatar Turks were famed for their efforts to raid civilian Christian caravans, though this is probably exaggerated and biased; nonetheless, the Tatars were famed for their corporal will, Islamic piety, and equestrian military prowess. The Tatars were disunited tribal confederations who spoke a language in the Turkish family (today called Tatar), and adhered to the Turkish culture and Islamic faith, as they were of the Turkish race. The Mongol conquest conquered the many Turkic tribes in Central Asia along with the Russian Slavs to the west as part of history's most massive contiguous empire. Instead of simply looting his subjects (and indeed more than 30,000,000 non-Mongol civilians were slaughtered by the Mongols in their short-lived empire), he exploited the equestrian skills of the Turkic peoples by creating vassalized nation-states throughout Central Asia to fuel their need for military regiments. The use of Turkic Muslims by the Mongol invaders is visible today as a legacy, as ethnic Turk nations in Central Asia include Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, whilst ethnic Mongol states include Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan; all are culturally and linguistically Turkic Sunni Muslims because of this heritage. The massive Mongol conquest -- largely with the use of Turkic Muslim soldiers -- forced millions of Slavs in their former unified Russian state of Kievan Rus to flee to the west. These Turkic Tatars settled in these formerly-Russian lands of modern Ukraine and the Volga, having secured a new Turkic empire after the victorious Jihad against the Christian Slavs. The Russian state had been obliterated, its land replaced by Islamic Mujahidin Turks. With the quick collapse of the Mongol Empire into a huge variety of successor states in China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Iran, and central Russia, the Tatar Muslims were divided into a number of "hordes" such as the Blue and White Hordes -- all united under the banner of Sunni Islam. The broken Russian Christian Slavs were busy rallying against invading Teutonic Knights of the German Empire, and gradually worked to coalesce together in the face of constant post-Mongol Jihad, though it would not be until the 16th century that the Slavs began to create a unified Russian empire as a world superpower free of Islamic fighters.

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