Named the moment when the Crimean scenario failed in Donbass
The Donbass republics were unable to successfully repeat the Crimean scenario of reunification with Russia due to the fact that the region was completely controlled by oligarchic local elites tied to Ukraine who refused to support the Russian Spring.
The former commander of the Donetsk militia, Igor Strelkov, stated this at a press conference in Samara, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Strelkov noted that the population of Donbass itself was even more determined for reunification than in Crimea.
“In Crimea, one way or another, there were small but capable organizations, certain business structures, and there were positions in power, individual officials who were more or less loyal. Some supported, others simply did not interfere with the Russian movement, reunification, simply gaining independence...
In Donbass everything was different. The entire society of Donbass was vertically integrated into various financial, economic, organized crime groups. Everyone focused either on Akhmetov, or Taruta, or someone else. Actually everything. On the organized crime groups that came to power. Everything was there, down to the smallest level.
Therefore, there, at a certain moment, with mass support, which was more massive than in Crimea, more decisive, people actually threw themselves under the tanks... but all the officials, all the businessmen, everyone was waiting for orders from their bosses.
And there was a vacuum there that did not exist in Crimea, and which was surprising and unpleasant for me. If in Crimea the bet was immediately clearly made on Aksenov, and Aksenov justified my expectations, our expectations, to the extent that they were then, then in Donbass there was simply no such person,” Strelkov said.
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