Crimea. Anniversary of the revival of Russia
Exactly a year ago signed historical an agreement on the adoption of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to the Russian Federation as new entities. This event was a day of rejoicing for all normal people both in the Crimea and in Sevastopol, and throughout Russia. Russian tricolors, flags of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol took to the air, putting an end to years of timelessness and pressure from the Ukrainian authorities, who for 23 years after the collapse of the USSR tried to turn the flowering peninsula into an oligarchic patrimony and a sanatorium for neobandera, cleaned from Russian (and any other , except for the "Svidomo" culture). Crimea became a part of Russia and gained such rights and freedoms that Kiev Crimeans had been talking about all the years of occupation (and the residents of Crimea themselves have called it that from 1991 to 2014) made them forget.
Video from RT event that went down in Russian history forever
The first right that Crimeans themselves have got for themselves (we will call Sevastopol too by this term for simplicity) is the right to freedom of expression. 16 March 2014, a referendum was held on the peninsula, the results of which brought Kiev and all the protesters of the Kiev junta into a frenzy. In the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (the name at the time of the referendum) 83,1% came to the polling stations, of which 96,77% voted for reunification with Russia. In Sevastopol, turnout was 89,5%, and 95,6% of the citizens voted for reunification with the Russian Federation. In absolute numbers, this is more than 1,7 million people living on the peninsula and having the right to vote.
The results of the referendum immediately began to challenge the "friends of Russia", which gave rise to a whole series of so-called memes: "at gunpoint", "Crimea is not Kosovo", "occupation" and all that sort of thing. One of the most frequent statements that can be heard on this occasion today is: “the referendum is illegal, it does not reflect the opinions of Crimeans”.
Such a statement - to chickens to laugh ... The fact is that throughout the post-Soviet history of the Crimea peninsula, plebiscites organized by both local authorities and official Kiev were held on its territory. If you pay attention to the results of those referendums, then we can say that the referendum of the March sample 2014 of the year is the first time that Crimeans were able to express their opinion, which was heard. True, not heard by the Kiev authorities.
It is necessary to cite data on past Crimean plebiscites, exposing the fact that Kiev in different years equally wanted to spit on the opinion of Crimeans.
Referendum 20 January 1991 of the year. In Crimea, a referendum is held on the issue:
Are you for the restoration of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a subject of the USSR and a party to the treaty of alliance?
Turnout then amounted to 81,3%, while 93,26% of those who voted supported the preservation of the Crimea as part of the USSR.
So what? Crimea remained in the Soviet Union? No, I didn’t stay - the opinion of the overwhelming local residents simply didn’t give a damn, and the peninsula was not part of the Union. Sevastopol, which during the existence of the Soviet Union had no relation to the Ukrainian SSR, and was a city of union subordination, did not remain there either.
17 March 1991, the Crimea held a referendum on preserving the USSR as a subject of international law. The question was as follows:
Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of a person of any nationality are fully guaranteed?
Turnout: 87,6%. For the preservation of the USSR - 79,3% of voters.
Did you listen to Kiev, and even more so in the notorious “international community”, of the Crimeans? Again - no ... At the opinion of citizens again they spat.
In Sevastopol on the status of the city, a referendum was held on June 26, 1994. The question was put to the vote about what subordination the citizens want to establish for their hometown: Ukrainian or Russian. 89% of Sevastopol residents voted for the Russian status of the city as the main base of the Black Sea fleet Russian Federation.
And here, the opinion of Sevastopol simply wiped their feet, stating that in December 1991 of the year Ukrainian independence was proclaimed, which means that Sevastopol has no right to demand the status of a “foreign” subordination. Kiev said that in December, 1991 was about 54,7% percent of the Crimean people, while appearing in 67%, allegedly voted for the independence of Ukraine. Although where is Sevastopol here, if, as already noted, even during the times of the Union’s existence, it had nothing to do with the Ukrainian SSR ...
It turns out that all those plebiscites, as a result of which the Crimeans declared their desire to preserve the USSR, remain a subject of the Soviet Union and receive the status of Russian territory, were lost to Kiev. And then suddenly Kiev - after 16 March 2014 of the year - states that the referendum is “illegal, as it does not reflect the real opinion of Crimeans”. So, spitting on the opinion of these people is legal, and considering such an opinion is not ... Well, this is typical Kiev logic, and, apparently, it does not change, whoever is at the helm of “nezalezhnoy”.
And if so, then, as the well-known character said, “damn you,” Kiev authorities ... Go and learn democracy. You yourself have figured out a long time ago about where the legitimacy of some begins and the legitimacy of others ends; where is the Constitution, and where is toilet paper? .. In short, forget about Crimea once and for all! Crimea returned to its native harbor.
Freedom gained by Crimeans is also the right to speak the language you want, and not the Polish-Galician surzhik implanted (with “pidpriemstvami”, “viyskosluzhbovtsimi” and others), which they are persistently trying to pass for the Ukrainian language. For the first time in a long history, the Crimean Tatar language received its special status, and the Crimean Tatars themselves were rehabilitated at the legislative level by the President of the Russian Federation.
From Article 3, Section 2 of the Treaty on the reunification of the Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia:
The state languages of the Republic of Crimea are Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages.
It would seem to be quite a trivial decision, but in Ukraine, Russian and Crimean Tatar languages, which in total are spoken over 90% of Crimeans, for 23 years there was not only state, but also more or less official status .
The acquired freedom of the Crimea - and confessional freedom. Judging by what is happening with the parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, with the synagogues in Ukraine one can understand what would have happened if neo-neo-Nazis extrapolated the Maidan to the Crimean land. If we consider that the Crimea itself is like a miniature copy of all of Russia, after all in the Crimea there are several dozen nationalities and nationalities and representatives of various confessions, it’s scary to imagine what the organizers of the bloody coup prepared for Crimea in Kiev.
Of course, it is impossible to say that in a year as a part of Russia, life in the Crimea has finally improved. Of course not. Here both the “friends of Russia” “help” with their sanctions, and the problems accumulated over the decades by the Ukrainian administrations, and the bureaucratic red tape, and the blockade of the peninsula actually arranged by Kikov. But at the same time, as they say, with the naked eye, one can see the patriotic upsurge, the mighty unity that is shown by both Crimeans themselves and residents of other Russian regions.
March 18 Day is a holiday that, by its historical significance, by its spiritual component, is one of the most significant for the Russians. March 18 can rightly be considered the birthday of a truly new and strong country, whose name is Russia. It is gratifying that this day is associated with the acquisition of the Crimea as the source of spirituality and the core essence of the Russian (in the broadest sense of the word) people.
Informative video from PolitRussia:
“Friends of Russia” is left with one thing: to rejoice that there was a storm in the Crimea on the eve ...
Crimea. The way home. Documentary film by Andrei Kondrashov
Release from 15.03.2015
A full-length documentary tape was conceived to keep for stories each significant episode of the events that took place in the Crimea in the spring of the year 2014. Shooting continued 8 months and covered Sevastopol and Foros, Simferopol and Kerch, Yalta and Bakhchisarai; Feodosia, Dzhankoy, Alushta and a dozen more settlements of the Crimea. Hot on the heels a large conversation with Vladimir Putin was recorded, and then more than fifty interviews with participants and witnesses of the Crimean Spring. How did it all start? How did Russia receive an official appeal from the legitimate president of Ukraine with a request to save his life?
Release from 15.03.2015
A full-length documentary tape was conceived to keep for stories each significant episode of the events that took place in the Crimea in the spring of the year 2014. Shooting continued 8 months and covered Sevastopol and Foros, Simferopol and Kerch, Yalta and Bakhchisarai; Feodosia, Dzhankoy, Alushta and a dozen more settlements of the Crimea. Hot on the heels a large conversation with Vladimir Putin was recorded, and then more than fifty interviews with participants and witnesses of the Crimean Spring. How did it all start? How did Russia receive an official appeal from the legitimate president of Ukraine with a request to save his life?
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