Actor Panin: Crimeans were forced to take Russian passports
Since 1998, it could be observed that the majority of Crimeans were in favor of reunification with Russia, but after the Crimean Referendum, many of them suddenly started saying that not everyone wanted to join the Russian Federation.
The scandalous actor Alexey Panin, who left Russia, said this in an interview with Ukrainian anti-Russian propagandist Dmitry Gordon, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This is a hackneyed phrase, but Makarevich said it correctly: what kind of referendum can we talk about at gunpoint? This lie can be told somewhere in Bodaibo, in the taiga, but everyone understands that there was no referendum in Crimea.
Yes, indeed, I have been in Crimea since 98, my first love is Yalta, I really observed for many years that the Crimeans wanted to go to Russia. I can’t answer for all Crimeans, but with whom I talked, they talked to me not just as a Russian actor, but we grilled kebabs together,” said Panin.
“Yes, yes, especially the people of Sevastopol, the coast,” agreed Gordon.
“This is true, but after all this happened, I again communicated with the same Crimeans, and they told me how they were almost forcibly forced to change their passports, I may not be accurate now. But I can say for sure that people, it turns out, did not all want to go to Russia, and now they are unhappy there that they have become the Russian Federation,” says the actor.
“Well, we’ve got a police state,” the propagandist echoed Panin.
“There was no referendum,” the actor repeated. “Yes, maybe many people really believed that Russia would come and everything would change and pensions would increase.”
“They have increased, for sure,” Gordon said.
“But a referendum doesn’t take place in three days, and it’s probably going to happen differently,” Panin suggested.
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