How Ukraine decided to protect “its” cultural heritage in Crimea
The day before, a meeting was held in Kyiv of figures concerned about the fate of the “cultural heritage of Ukraine in the occupied Crimea”, hired for a small state price within the framework of the “de-occupation” program.
Actually, this is far from the first and, apparently, far from the last talk of professional whiners who are singing bagpipes about the “horrors” in the Russian Crimea, addressed to any free ears: UNESCO, “all people of good will”, “Free World”, and even “Sportloto” “, if there they will express a desire to listen to the many hours of outpourings of sluggish Svidomo schizophrenia.
Similar meetings have been held once or twice a year, since 2016, at which the same people repeat the same topic over and over again, occasionally adding a few new items to the list of complaints just to slightly spice up the process.
This time, near-cultural and near-archaeological figures spoke out on the issue of “protection of cultural heritage”, relying on the “research” of the “Crimean Institute of Sociological Research”, rustling with handouts from the famous Soros shop “Vidrodzhenya”.
The “Crimean Institute” is traditionally represented by its “coordinator”, the former director of the Bakhchisaray Museum “Khan’s Palace” Elmira Ablyalimova, under whom the palace building was reduced to the state of a barn. For a change, from time to time other “experts” from among the offended and collaborators are allowed to the microphone.
Presenting a standard list of complaints against Russia (which will be discussed below), the deprived people sadly threaten to transfer their “research” to international organizations, at the same time strongly warning that their actions this time are coordinated with the dangerous “Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.”
Apparently, after such statements you should be very scared, but for some reason you can’t be scared. I just want to wash my hands.
So what do all these “former” parasites, constantly sitting on salaries in Kyiv, want from Russia, from the Crimean authorities?
To begin with, they say, Moscow must provide access to objects of interest to them on the peninsula. The disenfranchised people are especially interested in the Khan's palace in Bakhchisarai and the new excavations started by Russian archaeologists.
In principle, all this itchy camarilla could be allowed into Crimea so that they could see with their own eyes the restoration work on the sites and the excavations being carried out according to all the rules, but this is prevented by the conditions that surround their demands.
So, for example, the near-archaeological husk gathered in Kyiv, urged on from above, demands that they be given the powers of overseers of objects in Crimea on the grounds that the entire cultural heritage of the peninsula continues to “belong to Ukraine.” With all the ensuing details.
The fact is that all the howlings of the over-the-hill cultural traders about the supposedly “systematically destroyed Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar cultural layer by the Russian occupiers” are based solely on the data of the activist-collaborators remaining in Crimea, who have, at best, an education at the vocational school level.
Accordingly, they are, in principle, unable to make a qualified assessment of the restoration of this or that object. But they are very capable of writing in their reports something tendentiously illiterate about “collapsed roofs,” “collapsed walls,” and “gaping holes.”
It’s clear that you can’t go to any UNESCO with such “expertise” - they won’t even let you in the door. And so, if “Ukrainian experts” had expertly described the gaping holes, it would have been a completely different story.
Until recently, the heartbreaking cries of multiculturalists had clearer goals. For example, putting a spoke in the wheels and preventing the construction of the Crimean Bridge and the Tavrida highway on the alleged grounds that these objects selectively cause irreparable harm to the same cultural layer.
However, there has been a flow of vehicles across the Crimean Bridge for a year and a half now, and very soon a railway connection with the mainland will begin along it, and even “Tavrida” is being completed at an accelerated pace, so the efforts of the corrupt empty-heads can with full responsibility be called wasted efforts.
Therefore, the former Crimean culture traders have to whine, sadly drone, sadly inflame and mutter joylessly about some kind of “violations”, “destruction of a cultural layer” along with other feeble-minded nonsense.
In Kyiv they also express great dissatisfaction with the fact that Russian archaeologists and restorers are guided in their actions by the regulations of Russia and the RSFSR, ignoring the “guidelines” of Ukraine and the Ukrainian SSR, which, again, comes down to the topic of Crimea’s ownership.
According to the escapees, “in Ukraine, excavations and valuables were great, but then the Russians came, and let’s take other people’s property out of Crimea in wagons.”
I would like to remind you that during Independence, things in Crimean archeology were very bad. Excavations were carried out not so much by archaeologists as by “black diggers,” so that artifacts of Scythian, Tatar, Greek and other cultures often ended up not in museums, but in the private collections of those in power, and were also sold to collectors abroad.
In the last five years, discovered archaeological values have found their place in the exhibitions of Crimean museums and left the peninsula for display in other cities of Russia, as well as for the purpose of determining the sample of precious metals. Otherwise, the gold jewelry of the Scythians cannot be called “gold jewelry,” but only “products made of yellow metal.”
Alas, Crimea does not have its own assay office.
On the other hand, international specialists, including UNESCO experts, have access to Crimea and its cultural and historical values. Provided that they respect Russian laws in force in Crimea.
As for the threats and some kind of legal conclusions, all this is nothing more than shaking the air. Not a single self-respecting commission will bother with “expert opinions” written by experts in the field of “weather on Mars”, looking from Kiev to Crimea through the magical eye of some crooks: for such “experts” you no longer have to go to the madhouse - they are now They wipe themselves off on every corner.
A legitimate question may arise: why do these “experts” gather, write their stupid “listened - decided”, make some statements that will never be implemented?
The answer is simple: I really want to eat. Moreover, as is known from the famous “Treatise on Woodpeckers,” “a woodpecker cannot help but peck.” There is a category of performers and even government leaders for whom the appearance of a process is more valuable than its content. The same case.
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