Therefore, it often happens that principles of classification of collected material are not known, and national origins of legends are not differentiated either.
[10] However, after Stalin's repressions and deportation of Crimean Tatars, folklore became a subject for editing according to ideological demands of that time.
[11] It made the Soviet-era treatment of folklore a specific phenomenon in its own right, which is worthy of separate research.
[12] When the Soviet Union collapsed, Crimean legends continued to be published commercially.
[13] Apart from such publications for the popular market, national societies also took to publishing collections of legends.