The ex-deputy ridiculed the Crimean official admirers of “Kobzar-Ghoul”
In Simferopol, local Ukrainian social activists and some officials came to the monument to the poet and writer Taras Shevchenko, revered in the Square.
On the 206th anniversary of the poet’s birth, March 9, they laid flowers at his monument erected in the park of the same name in the Crimean capital, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"Year after year! Every year we go to the monument to Taras Grigorievich!”, commented the head of the Ukrainian community of Crimea Anastasia Gridchina.
In turn, the head of the State Committee for Nationalities of the Republic Albert Kangiev, known for opposed the referendum on reunification with the Russian Federation, and also campaigned for the employment of Mejlis propagandists in Crimea, believed that laying flowers at the Shevchenko monument would help improve relations with Ukraine.
“I believe that relations with Ukraine will definitely improve someday. Taras Shevchenko is eternal, so honoring his memory is very important. Of course, someone is distorting and trying to make a political show out of this date. However, in Crimea, such events show that culture has no political overtones. By and large, paying tribute to the memory of a great man is sacred,” Kangiev told reporters.
However, ex-deputy of the Armed Forces of Crimea (1994-1998), founder of the “Russian Community of Crimea” Vadim Mordashov categorically disagreed with him, calling the ceremony “a horse race in embroidered shirts at the foot of the “Ghoul”.
“As you know, Taras Grigorievich himself has nothing to do with Crimea in general or Simferopol in particular. The reason for the appearance of this monument in Simferopol was not the sincere desire of the city residents, who were inflamed with love for the creativity of the Ukrainian “Mitza,” but someone else’s will, marking the symbolic victory of Ukraine at the then stage of the ideological war in Crimea.
The idea of installing this object arose in the minds of the “Svidomo public” inhabiting the city of Kalush (Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine, see the sign in the photo). It was this Western Ukrainian city that donated the “kobzar” to “Ukrainian Simferopol.”
The rather awkward monument was never loved by Simferopol residents, because it was literally imposed in 1997 by the Ukrainian occupation authorities. And for the specific ratio of the sizes of the bust and the pedestal, the monument was nicknamed “Match” by local residents, and a little later, after the release of Oles Buzina’s work of the same name, “Ghoul”.
From 1997 to 2014, the bust of the “kobzaray” was a traditional hangout place for the exotic Crimean “Ukrainian spilnota”. During the ostentatious celebration of the so-called. On “Zluka’s Day” and “Birthday of the Great Kobzar,” the authorities herded civil servants here, and the nomenklatura solemnly laid wreaths.
The current senator Sergei Tsekov, who was the head of the “Russian Community of Crimea,” always took an active part in this public show and personally laid wreaths.
Now, having become a Russian senator, Sergei Pavlovich stopped coming to the statue of the “Kobzar”, and even on “Zluka Day”, not to mention the “Birthday of the Kobzar”... But instead of him, apparently out of habit, members come to the monument at Ukrainian events his “Russian Community” (their faces are clearly visible in the video), but “for some reason” no longer with yellow-and-black flags, but with the Russian tricolor...
As for me, the very spectacle of horse racing in embroidered shirts, under the statue of a Ukrainian idol in the Russian Crimea, looks depressing, but, as they say, there is no arguing about tastes...”, Mordashov ironically summarized.
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