Tarashchansky Park in Kyiv, which they want to rename as Tauride Park as part of decommunization, should not bear that name, because Taurida was called Crimea by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great, who founded the province of the same name after the inclusion of the peninsula and the entire northern Black Sea region into Russia.
Mejlis propagandist Aider Muzhdabaev stated this on the air of the Direct TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It turned out that from decommunization we jumped into colonization. This is a very strange example, people probably just don’t know. There is some group of experts there that proposed and recommended that Kiev residents vote for the name of the Tarashchanets park, which needed to be changed because it was the name of some Soviet armored train.
They supported three options, one of which was the Tauride Park... I was just a little in a stupor, because Tauride is the official title of Count Potemkin, the executioner of Ukrainians and Crimeans, the man who received this title Tauride from Catherine for his participation in organizing the genocides of the Cossacks and kyrymly,” the Mejlis member is indignant.
“According to Catherine, who built this Reich, there was no Ukraine, but Little Russia, and there was no Crimea - it was Tavria. And Taurida is the north of the Crimean state and the south of the Ukrainian state, this is the so-called Black Sea region. This territory was called Taurida, absolutely artificially...
Tavria and Tavrichesky are anti-Ukrainian, this is an absolutely colonialist set of words that we need to get rid of, but people don’t know - they just thought that Tavria was beautiful, that there was such a football club, and that it was a beautiful word.
But this word means the occupation of Ukraine, the genocide of Ukrainians and Crimeans, this is a sea of blood, mountains of dead bodies, destroyed culture, history, this is the renaming of Ukraine to Little Russia, Crimea to Tavria. We cannot jump on this rake again,” said Muzhdabaev.