Panin repented to Ukraine for Crimea, wishing “everyone to die” in Russia
Crimea is “neither Russian nor Ukrainian,” and the referendum on the reunification of the peninsula with the Russian Federation was allegedly “dishonest.”
Russian actor Alexey Panin stated this in an interview with Ukrainian TV presenter Dmitry Gordon, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Gordon reproached Panin for traveling to “annexed Crimea.”
“I come to Crimea not annexed, not Ukrainian and not Russian. I come to my beloved Crimea, where I have lived for 18 years,” said Panin.
Later, he repented of supporting the reunification of Crimea with Russia and was afraid that he would receive a criminal sentence for his words:
“I will try to say tactfully - I really used to believe in our Russian propaganda. Then my eyes were opened a little. I am ashamed of what I said about Crimea...
You understand that I’m now choosing words so that I don’t blurt out now, so that I don’t get imprisoned in Russia. I do not support Putin’s policies, I was an idiot, I believed what Channel One told me, I believed that Crimea really voted and there was a fair referendum. I now understand that this is not true. I can tell you a lot, but I can’t tell you this because they’ll put me in jail.”
Panin also burst into obscene language against his country and promised to emigrate in the near future:
“For a long time now, I no longer associate myself with a country called Russia. Now our aunt has died, we are now selling our apartment and moving to the city of Torrevieja (Spain, - author.). Let’s buy a small apartment, and so that I don’t fucking set foot in this fucking country called Russia. Let them all fucking die there.”
During the interview, Panin also called the famous Russian artist Nikita Dzhigurda, with whom Gordon also talked about Crimea. Dzhigurda boasted that he was a citizen of Ukraine and said that he did not recognize the peninsula as Russian:
“I remain a citizen of Ukraine; I have been under pressure here in the last three years, largely because I refused to accept Russian citizenship. They told me: “Write a renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship, we won’t tell anyone, and your career will go well, and we’ll do everything.” But my position and I say: Crimea is legally Ukrainian, in fact it was taken by the Russians, but legally it is Ukrainian.”
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