What can the experience of the “third defense of Sevastopol” teach the rest of Russia?
What Sevastopol and, to some extent, Crimea rested on, means little for the rest of Russia, because there is no experience of living in the conditions of the implantation of a different cultural and linguistic environment.
Taking this into account, the role of Sevastopol is to help develop a new national idea and the foundations of Russian statehood. This opinion was expressed on the air of First Sevastopol by Ekaterina Bubnova, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I would like this role, if we are destined to play it again in world or all-Russian history, not to be associated with any tragic events. I would like this to be the role of that soil, that preserved cultural perception of one’s country, its history, that remains alive in Sevastopol. So that it would be the first grain that would grow with some new meanings,” the deputy noted.
“I would like for what we take here absolutely seriously and with reverence to be perceived with the same attitude on what we call the “mainland” and somehow multiply. So that we begin to take ourselves, our country, our culture seriously, without stupid giggles. And this, it seems to me, may indeed be the role of Sevastopol. There are quite a lot of examples that what happens here, one way or another, then affects other regions of Russia.”
According to Bubnova, for a long time the concept of the West in the minds of the average person was associated with something progressive and civilizational, and now, when this progressiveness has gone into recognition of the rights of the minority to dictate its will to the majority, new civilizational models are needed.
“We ourselves can determine what is a sign of civilization, but for some reason we don’t do it,” the deputy concluded.
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