People in Crimea speak in whispers out of fear, - APR journalist in Kyiv
In Crimea, teachers are forced to wear St. George ribbons, people speak in whispers out of fear and can breathe freely only when crossing the Ukrainian border.
This version of the current situation on the peninsula in an interview with the Kyiv magazine “Vesti. Reporter” is presented by former journalist of the Crimean channel ATR Emine Dzheppar, who left the peninsula after its annexation to Russia.
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“In schools, against the backdrop of the displacement of the Ukrainian language, the Russian language and culture are being propagated, the myths of the Crimean Tatars are being spread as a traitor to the people, an alien and not indigenous to Crimea,” she says. – For people who survived deportation, what is happening now in Crimea is a secondary deprivation of freedom from their homeland. Crimean Tatar classes are closed - the Crimean Tatar language is made optional, it is given in the seventh or eighth lesson, when the child no longer has the strength to learn it. All lines feature “veterans of the Russian spring,” as they now call themselves. Teachers are forced to wear St. George ribbons. People started talking in whispers. Here they don’t say “annexation” out loud, here they say “return to their homeland.”
According to the journalist, all her friends, when traveling to the mainland, say that only “crossing the Ukrainian border can you finally breathe deeply.”
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