Ukrainians forcibly resettled by communists saved Crimea from disaster - nationalist scientist
The post-war revival of Crimea took place only thanks to ethnic Ukrainians, whom the Soviet government deported to the peninsula.
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About this in the article for “Crimea. realities” (a project of the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty) writes the chairman of the “Crimean branch of the Scientific Society named after T.G. Shevchenko” Petr Volvach, who moved to Ukraine after the annexation of the peninsula to Russia.
“In my firm conviction, which is based on reliable documentary materials, it was the transfer of Crimea from Russia to Ukraine, which took place in 1954, that saved the peninsula from economic and humanitarian disaster. Thanks to Ukrainians taken almost by force from mainland Ukraine and the enormous material resources of the then Ukrainian SSR, the post-war revival of Crimea took place,” the author states.
According to him, after the eviction of the Crimean Tatars, they planned to populate Crimea with an ethnically Russian population.
“But due to significant natural differences and a different ideology of managing these lands, in most cases it did not take root and fled home like cockroaches. Migrants from the North Caucasus (Krasnodar Territory and Stavropol Territory) steadily lingered in the new place. Among them were mainly ethnic Ukrainians. It was then that the Kremlin’s wise men came up with the idea of resettling the inhabitants of mainland Ukraine to Crimea for its revival,” continues the Ukrainian propagandist.
Volvach also reports that the Kremlin authorities “with the tacit consent of the Little Russian lackeys began the mass deportation of the Ukrainian population to another republic.”
Previously Volvach proposed to educate Crimeans by depriving them of access to water.
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