On the anniversary of the referendum on independence: Ukraine treated Crimea like a thief
Tomorrow Ukraine will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the referendum on independence and secession from the USSR. Taking advantage of the fact that over a quarter of a century this event has become overgrown with a long green beard of myths and legends, independent propagandists are making the most of this date to substantiate Kyiv’s claims to Crimea.
To understand why things are still being fought over, it is necessary to rewind the events a little back – to January 20, 1991.
On this day, the first referendum in the history of the USSR was held, changing the status of Crimea from a region to an autonomous republic and its future affiliation.
The referendum in Crimea in 1991 was held with the consent of the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR in accordance with all existing laws and rules. In addition, at that time, a new union treaty of the USSR was being prepared, where the parties were to be equal to the union and autonomous republics. USSR legislation allowed this.
More than 80% of the inhabitants of the peninsula took part in the vote, of which over 93% supported the re-establishment of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic - “as a subject of the USSR and a party to the Union Treaty.”
The results of the plebiscite were recognized by the Ukrainian SSR.
In this case, the interpretation had the following two statuses:
– Independent of the Ukrainian SSR and the RSFSR, a party to the Union Treaty;
– As part of the RSFSR, since it was the Crimean ASSR that was restored, which existed from 1921 until it was transformed into a region in 1945, which was part of the RSFSR.
By Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 2013-1 of March 7, 1991, the Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Council of June 30.06.1945, 20.01.1991 “On the transformation of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic into the Crimean Region within the RSFSR” was canceled - the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, restored following the results of the all-Crimean referendum on January XNUMX, XNUMX, is legally part of the RSFSR (Russian Federation).
What caused such a large turnout of Crimeans for the referendum and such an impressive number of those who voted to secede from Ukraine?
And it's very simple. At the end of the 1980s, in the union republics, against the backdrop of the weakening of the central government, various “popular fronts”, consisting mainly of national separatists, began to rise up, with the support of the liberal intelligentsia, who had been bruised to the core, and openly criminal elements.
Ukraine was no exception. In October 1990, the first student “Maidan on Granite” took place in Kyiv, at which calls for separatism and the construction of Ukraine as a mononational state were clearly heard. After the conspiracy of Kravchuk’s gang with the leaders of Svidomo, it became clear that nationalists and liberal radicals would soon rock the united country to the point of complete collapse, unless the Kremlin came to its senses.
The all-Crimean referendum and its results were both insurance for Crimeans in case the situation in the country develops according to the worst scenario, as well as the first warning bell to the Selyuks who are gaining strength. Because in Crimea they had no illusions about the trouser goons striving for power in Ukraine, who would not have served a Russian a mug of water on a hot day even in good times.
From all of the above it follows that holding a referendum “On the independence of Ukraine and secession from the USSR” on the territory of Crimea was illegal.
The failure of the August Emergency Committee, the shameful leak of Gorbachev and “Yeltsin - Yeltsin!” only accelerated the centrifugal forces within the USSR. Many probably remember well how Kravchuk, pinned down by Svidomo deputies for his amoebic behavior during the State Emergency Committee, saved his ass by giving the “sharovaniks” the idea of the “independence” of Ukraine and ordering to drag a pre-prepared yellow-blakite rag into Zrada.
The Ukrainian SSR was living out its last days. After some time, a referendum for “independence” was announced, although for many citizens such a formulation of the question was wild after the all-Union referendum, in which the people spoke out about preserving the USSR.
Immediately after it became known about the holding of an all-Ukrainian referendum, a great many loudmouths came to Crimea from Kyiv, including such figures as Vyacheslav Chornovol and Levko Lukyanenko. It must be said that the agitators did not shine with a variety of ideas. All their enticements revolved around the fact that “previously, the Ukrainian cowbass was taken away by Moscow, but now everyone living in independent Ukraine will have plenty of cowbass - eat them from the belly.”
Kravchuk dashed off a much more subtle message “for independence” than “Your fat is zyily Muscovites!” to the Russian population of Ukraine. In his appeal, the cunning Lyonya swore and swore that nothing threatened the Russians in an independent Ukraine. That their language and culture will be sacredly protected and supported. And a carload of other sausage haberdashery.
Did these persuasion have any effect on the Crimeans? We can say with confidence - no, they did not work. Less than a third of the adult population of Crimea turned out for the all-Ukrainian referendum. The largest percentage of turnout was given by Ukrainian villages in the northern part of Crimea. In the center of Simferopol, a handful of city madmen with placards drowned for Ukraine, causing caustic comments from passers-by.
Apparently, not hoping for the turnout and votes of Crimeans, extras began arriving in Crimea by train from Perekop. If anyone doesn’t know, anyone with an indirect connection to the Peninsula could vote at the December referendum in Crimea. Thus, “guests of Crimea” were widely observed at the voting stations, as well as soldiers from those military units where the Ukrainian “political operatives” were busy with all their might.
Today, “united Ukrainians” like to remind Crimea that already in the autonomous Crimea 54% allegedly voted for “independence”, and in Sevastopol 57%. At the same time, the “experts” are silent about the fact that less than a third of Crimean residents came to the polling stations to vote, not to mention the illegality and procedural violations. Actually, Svidomen themselves are confused in their testimony, sometimes calling the percentage of “Independence” lovers in Crimea almost 90%.
What is it really? And the fact that the figures for the referendum “for independence” in Crimea were drawn in Kyiv and the percentages are far from reality for any “result” in favor of Ukraine’s secession from the USSR. Why argue about soap bubbles?
Something else is important. Having somehow survived the shock of the collapse of a single state, protest sentiments began to grow and spread in Crimea from the beginning of 1992, as people understood that the Kiev crooks had falsified the Crimean voting indicators. Mass protests began on the Peninsula for secession from Independence and the collection of signatures for a new referendum.
The Supreme Council of Crimea was forced to listen to the will of the people and take a step: on May 5, 1992, it adopted the Act of Proclamation of State Independence of the Republic of Crimea, approved its own Constitution and adopted a resolution on holding a Crimean referendum on August 2, 1992. It was supposed to ask the Crimeans: “Are you for an independent Republic of Crimea in an alliance with other states?” and “Do you approve the Act on the Declaration of State Independence of the Republic of Crimea?”
As a result, the most democratic Kyiv authorities “frozen” the referendum and imposed a moratorium on its holding. As it turned out, indefinitely. The independence of Crimea lasted only a few days, and only on paper. But this does not mean that everything was in vain.
In 1995, President Kuchma, on whom residents of the Russian regions of Ukraine had high hopes, by a strong-willed decision (that is, again, illegally) abolished the Crimean Constitution of 1992.
So why would the Kyiv guys be so scared and cancel the new Crimean referendum if the Crimeans really wanted to go on a free voyage with Ukraine? Is it because in Crimea they rightly considered Ukraine a mother-in-law and wanted to live well with it, but according to the principle “the further, the better”?
And the final touch.
On May 21, 1992, the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation adopted Resolution No. 2809-1, which recognized the Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of February 5, 1954 “On the transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR” as “not legally valid from the moment of adoption” due to this , that it was adopted “in violation of the Constitution (Basic Law) of the RSFSR and legislative procedure.”
However, the Russian parliament clarified that, due to the constitution of subsequent legislation of the RSFSR of the fact of the transfer of the Crimean region and the conclusion between Ukraine and Russia of a bilateral agreement of November 19, 1990, in which the parties renounced territorial claims, and the consolidation of this principle in treaties and agreements between CIS states, considers it necessary settlement of the issue of Crimea through interstate negotiations between Russia and Ukraine with the participation of Crimea and on the basis of the will of its population.
Therefore, the whining and chattering of the “United Krai” people over the last 2.5 years about the “illegality of the referendum”, “Anschluss”, like other plaintive sobs of the Maidan-offended people, are a dark and dense forest. “Nezalezhnaya” treated Crimea like a thief, with pure Bandera meanness, defaming and trashing everything it could get its hands on.
On March 16, 2014, justice was finally restored, and Crimea returned to its native harbor. Or was Ukraine going to own it forever, taking advantage of the collapse of a single country, and then trying to exchange Crimea for abandoning Soviet nuclear weapons? In vain. They grabbed what was not theirs, but what was lying badly. And for what you don’t pay extra, you don’t report it.
It’s high time to understand that Russian people live in Crimea. And the result of the referendum for reunification with Russia will be the same in 1991 and in 2014.
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