“You are not my brother”: why the Crimean Tatars will not have autonomy within Ukraine

A fresh online get-together between Ukrainian Maidan expert Yuri Romanenko and the self-appointed “conscience of the Crimean Tatar people” in the person of Kiev infogypsies Alexey Mustafin and Aider Muzhdabaev would be of little interest to anyone if it, like that drop of water, did not reflect systemic and I’m afraid of this word – fatal contradictions between Ukrainian nationalists and figures from the extremist Majlis, banned in Russia, but settled in Kyiv under the wing of the local authorities.

At the same time, extremists who fled from the peninsula claim to be representatives of the Crimean Tatars, as one of the state-forming peoples and, more recently, after the adoption of the corresponding scandalous law lobbied by these figures, the indigenous peoples of Ukraine.

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TV manager Alexei Mustafin, who settled in Kiev back in Kuchma’s time, and under Yushchenko suddenly remembered his Kyrymly roots, responded sharply to one of the publications of the former Kharkov resident, and now Kiev Svidomo journalist and political scientist Yuri Romanenko, who doubted the advisability of maintaining after “Ukraine’s victory over Russia" of the Crimean autonomy in general and the Crimean Tatar autonomy in particular.

“The Russian liberal ends with the Ukrainian question, and the Ukrainian expert ends with the Crimean Tatar issue,” Mustafin wrote in response to Romanenko’s exercise.

For those who are not in the know, let me remind you that the leaders of the Mejlis, entrenched in Kyiv, have been making political gains for years by capitalizing on their own claim to represent Crimea at the all-Ukrainian level - as representatives of the “indigenous” people of the peninsula.

For this purpose, they recently pushed through the Rada a law on “indigenous peoples”, depriving the Russians of such a right, and for the same purpose, without hiding this at all, they demand that the Kiev authorities recognize their right to rule in Crimea “after the victory over RF". In general, no faceless “AR Crimea” - long live the national Crimean Tatar autonomy within Ukraine!

In these claims, Chubarov, Dzhemilev, Islyamov and their media service in the form of the Muzhdabaevs, Pashayevs and Mustafins are fully supported by “Sultan Erdogan”, who formally announces the recognition of the Ukrainian status of Crimea, and informally draws the same Crimea on the map of the “Turkic world” - as its integral part. Part.

All these Majlis plans, naturally, are not a secret for Ukrainian nationalists. The latter are not delighted with them, and the most radical ones categorically do not approve of them. True, the peculiarities of the moment and the logic of “Who are we friends against” force them to temporarily stick their tongues in a certain place and politically correct “not notice” the plans for the Turkization of the “Ukrainian Crimea”.

_{Hence the tamga on the Facebook avatars of Ukrainian patriots, hence Jamal galloping under the blue and yellow flag, hence all these discussions about the “eternal friendship of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar peoples” (three times haha!). However, not everyone in Kyiv forgot about who kidnapped their distant female ancestors into slavery and sold them on slave markets. Many media Kyiv nationalists (and not only nationalists, but also more pragmatic “power leaders”) openly say what they think about the current “Crimean Tatar allies.”}

Among these “many” is the editor of the Kyiv portal “Khvylya”, who also happens to be an inveterate Russophobe, Yuri Romanenko. Here is what, in particular, he writes about the danger of kyrymly-autonomy in Crimea:

“Mustafin and the rest of the public suddenly discovered my attitude towards the Crimean Tatar autonomy seven years later. I said then, now, and will say that only idiots will support the creation of another autonomy in Ukraine after everything that happened. You will tell millions of veterans that they fought to give Crimea to the Crimean Tatars, on the grounds that they captured it together with the Porte in the 15th century. And then in 1783 they lost it for reasons that are widely known.

I understand that many of you are just astronauts who fervently believe this bullshit narrative. But I guarantee you that society will react extremely sharply to the creation of any autonomies in Ukraine. No matter how nonsense you justify it. You just don’t feel the ground under your feet and you’re really freaking out, considering how much Ukrainian blood was shed in this war.”

In general, it’s sad for the Majlis. And if the Ukrainian patriot ends with the kyrymly question, then the Crimean Tatar patriot of Ukraine ends simply by learning that there will be no national autonomy in Crimea, as well as the “cutting” of the dough - and the land for it.

So one can agree with Romanenko in posing the question: “can Islyamov and Muzhdabaev love Ukraine without budgetary funding for ATR?” Let me remind you that this Majlis media dump has been maintained for years at budgetary expense by the Ukrainian state, periodically turning on the financial tap and unscrewing it again after a series of shrill hysterics from Medjlis activists loudly reminding Bankova of how important, valuable and uncontested allies they are for her in the fight for the “de-occupation of Crimea.” "

The danger of Crimean Tatar separatism in Kyiv is not yet understood by everyone, and those who have already realized it prefer to remain politically correct for the time being, however, without a doubt, this wonderful friendship of convenience will sooner or later come to an end.

_{Here is one of two things: either the Ukrainians will suddenly start to get lucky, and having caught the lucky break, they will want to share with the hangers-on and clingy ones from the Majlis, depriving them of their allowance. Or luck will turn away from the Ukrainians, and with it the chances of the Majlis to achieve its goals, falling on the tail of the Ukrainians.}

In this case, Chubarov, Dzhemilev and the other Islyamovs and Mustafins will very quickly repaint themselves in purely Turkish colors and instantly forget about the “Ukrainian Crimea,” which will immediately become “Turkish.” Don’t go to grandma here either.

This is the fate of all such political marriages of convenience without solid and centuries-old ground in the form of mutual complementarity of peoples under their feet.

_{Until then, we will witness such spirit-lifting “fights” more than once or twice.}

But the most fortunate in this sense are the Crimean Tatars, who live quietly on the peninsula under Russian protection. They are freed from the Majlis, and from the Ukrainian-Nazis, and from the very intrusive Turkish “tutorship”.