Crimean speaker to residents of Ukraine: If you want to repeat our experience, don’t pass the Russian language
The Russian Spring became possible because the Crimeans fought for the right to speak Russian throughout their 23 years of being part of Ukraine. Chairman of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov stated this today, speaking in Yalta at the “Great Russian Word” forum.
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“Without the struggle for the Russian language there would have been no Russian Spring, there would have been no impulse of the Crimeans, which made our painless return to Russia possible. Now, for the right to be themselves, to speak their native language, people fight with weapons in their hands, languish in the dungeons of the SBU or are in exile,” Konstantinov said.
He believes that it is no coincidence that the enemies of the Russian world are attacking the positions of the Russian language, trying in every possible way to limit the scope of its application and area of distribution.
“At one time, Kyiv abolished the Crimean Constitution of 1992, which gave the status of state languages to the Crimean Tatar, Russian and Ukrainian languages. At the same time, he monopolized the right to decide in what language regional and municipal authorities should communicate with their citizens, the spread of which language should be artificially propagated, and which one should be purposefully restrained and reduced,” Konstantinov said.
He said that linguistic and cultural identity play no less important role in the modern world than weapons.
“You can be a nuclear power, have thousands of warheads and tens of thousands of tanks, but if your identity is lost, take this power with your bare hands, with all its warheads and tanks. We know how to make the best weapons in the world, we inherited from our ancestors the science of winning on the battlefield. Now we should learn to be no less successful in the humanitarian sphere, in the information field, in the struggle of ideas,” Konstantinov said.
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