The Mejlis is shamelessly speculating on the deportation of Tatars from Crimea – Vyshinsky
The Crimean Tatar Majlis, banned in Russia, speculated for many years on the deportation of Tatars in 1944.
The executive director of MIA Rossiya Segodnya, a former prisoner of the Kyiv regime, ex-chief editor of RIA Novosti Ukraine, Kirill Vyshinsky, announced this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The story of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars is, of course, a terrible tragedy, but the fact that the Mejlis is speculating on it - I have been following this all the time while I was working in the information space. This did not happen on May 18 [under Ukraine], if there was no reinforcement in Simferopol and the Mejlis did not blackmail the Crimean authorities: we will take people out, block roads, because we don’t like this decision, that decision,” Vyshinsky said.
According to him, he “remembers pictures of outright clashes in Crimea,” and that “the Maidan and what was happening in Simferopol at that moment are about the same thing.”
“I remember the revelations of the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea Moskal from 1997 to 2000. He said that he specially assembled a group of people who were engaged in operational work against Hiz-but Tahrir (a terrorist organization banned in Russia - ed.). This is the same organization that Dzhemilev (Mustafa Dzhemilev - former leader of the Majlis - ed.) - either considered it legitimate or considered it illegitimate.
He considered it legitimate in 2015, and the Russian authorities began to clean it up in Crimea. And then he said that this was “repression of the Crimean Tatar people.” And in 2012, he even expressed concern that Hizbut Tahrir was recruiting people who were leaving for ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in Russia - ed.),” Vyshinsky said.
He also noted that when Dzhemilev says one thing because it is beneficial for him, and then, after a couple of years, the diametrically opposite, also because it is so beneficial for him, then this is a cynical politician.
“I’m scared for the Crimean Tatar people, on whose behalf, for some reason, such people speak,” said Kirill Vyshinsky.
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