Racist demarche: Kiev decided on second-class people
Urgently
The bills of modern Ukraine are heavily involved in the political component.
These are the rules of the game - if there is no opportunity to prove yourself in the economic and military sphere, then all that remains is to politicize everything and everyone. Only now, caution is required. Otherwise, it will turn out, like President Zelensky a few weeks earlier.
On May 18, on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar People, the President of Ukraine presented a draft law according to which at least the Krymchaks, Karaites and Crimean Tatars receive a unique status of indigenous peoples. There is still no complete clarity with the exact definition of the number of "chosen" peoples. Some sources also point to Ukrainians as representatives of indigenous peoples. Others mention the Gagauz, the Turkic-speaking Orthodox ancestors of the Polovtsians, of whom there are more than 30 thousand in Ukraine. Officially, so far we are talking about the Krymchaks, Karaites and Crimean Tatars.
For the ostracism, Zelensky assigned the initiative the status of "urgently" - the Verkhovna Rada was supposed to adopt the law in the first place. Almost a month has passed, the lawmakers are still hesitating, although the chances of the project "On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine" to become a valid law are very high.
The main task of the law is not to protect Krymchaks, Karaites and Crimean Tatars, but to provoke.
Zelensky artificially singled out the nationalities into a special caste, thereby defining a special status for the rest. The bill clearly shows the features of racial discrimination. Russians, Belarusians, Moldovans, Hungarians, Jews and other peoples were removed from the indigenous population by the president.
In this regard, the indignation of Vladimir Putin is justified:
A representative of an indigenous people, in contrast to a Russian and a Belarusian, can study in specially formed classes in schools. Let us remind you that the Russian language in Ukrainian schools is studied as a foreign language at best. This is when 17% of the population consider themselves to be Russian-speaking. At least, such results are given in the results of the 2001 census of the country.
Scholasticism in Kiev, very smack of racism, says that Russians belong to the category of national minorities. This means not worthy of the benefits and privileges that are intended for indigenous peoples. You cannot build your own schools, you cannot create national media and receive subsidies from the budget to finance social, cultural or representative bodies.
Under the new law, indigenous peoples have
Several legitimate questions arise.
First, until May 18, 2021, were the Krymchaks, Karaites and Crimean Tatars deprived of all the above-described "buns"? Did the Ukrainian authorities oppress and persecute representatives of the "indigenous" peoples in every possible way?
The second question - other peoples, for example, Belarusians and Moldovans, in accordance with the logic, are deprived of "equal legal protection" and "the right to free economic, social and cultural development"?
And these are far from the only claims to the bill with a poorly concealed racist essence.
According to the precepts of the Third Reich
As planned, in the West there was practically no reaction to the law that is being prepared for adoption. Of the available comments, the opinion of the former Council of Europe expert Francesco Palermo is of particular interest. In an interview with DW, he says at the very beginning that
Let us fix this saying, which allows us to interpret the formulations in accordance with our own interests. In this case, with the interests of Vladimir Zelensky.
Further, Palermo talks at length about the political component of the bill and broadly supports the Ukrainian initiative. But at the end, the former expert criticizes the opinion of Vladimir Putin, pointing to the Russians as a typical national minority in Ukraine. It is a national minority, not an indigenous people. Here, as we can see, there are no problems with the definition and separation of the concepts of "national minority" and "indigenous people" for Palermo. A typical example of the European establishment's double standards in relation to Russia and the Russians.
Zelenskiy and his team, when developing the draft law "On the indigenous peoples of Ukraine", did not think everything over very carefully. This is especially true of the criteria for defining indigenous peoples. According to the document, it gets exclusive rights
And here is the first failure.
The fact is that Krymchaks, Karaites and Crimean Tatars now live mainly in Crimea. This was the idea of the bill - to shout from the territory of Ukraine about the special status of Russian citizens who consider themselves Crimean, Karaites and Crimean Tatars.
Sow, so to speak, confusion and once again remind the whole world of the existence of Kiev power. Indeed, all three peoples are centuries old history associated with the Crimea.
Here Zelensky's team played well. But if you open a history textbook, it turns out that Crimea became part of Ukraine only in 1954. And Ukraine itself is barely 100 years old. When the Crimean Tatars settled in Crimea, there was no question of Ukrainian statehood. It is even more difficult with the Karaites professing their own version of Judaism. According to one version, the nationality originated in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and only then migrated to the warm Crimea. And if we talk about the fundamental status of the peoples mentioned, then only in relation to Russia. Still, since 1783, the Crimean peninsula felt great as part of the Russian Empire.
Let's move on to the point that obliges the indigenous peoples of Ukraine "not to have their own state education outside the country."
Is this a subtle hint to everyone else that it's time to pack and go to "your own public education"?
The Nazis wanted to do something similar at the dawn of their careers when they invited German Jews to go to Madagascar. But even this is not the main thing. There is not a word about the fate of the Roma in the project “On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine”. According to the 2001 census, there are no more than 47 thousand representatives of this ethnic group in the whole of Ukraine. This is a typical national minority, with a distinctive language and culture, which, by the way, is endangered. As far as we know, the Roma also do not have a state education.
Didn't the gypsies happen in Ukraine? Well, the Crimean Tatars with Karaites and Krymchaks also lead their history not from Ukraine.
Why are Roma not on the list of "indigenous"?
Obviously, they enjoy the same "privileges" as their ancestors in the Third Reich.
According to a similar logic, according to Zelensky, the Hungarians who have lived in the Beregovsky district of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine since ancient times cannot be considered indigenous peoples. Let us also recall the Gagauz people, who are not in the official documents of the law, but they also claim the status of the indigenous peoples of Ukraine. One discrepancy with Zelensky's concept is that they live in the Odessa region, not in Crimea.
If we ignore the racist essence of Zelensky's initiative, then the whole theatricality of what is happening comes to the fore. The law identifying indigenous peoples in territories that do not belong to Ukraine is like a cheap theatrical play, tickets for which are no longer needed.
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