"Lost my identity." Kazarin makes excuses for a Russian passport
Ukrainian propagandist and former Crimean Pavel Kazarin lost his “Crimean identity” after he fled to Kyiv
He boasted about this on the Skrypin Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Recently found himself at the center of the story about “zrada”, after blogger Anatoly Shariy released information about Kazarin’s Russian citizenship, the propagandist began to justify that he was in a hurry to get a passport with a double-headed eagle only in order to live in Crimea next to his parents.
“My motives were quite simple. At that time I planned that I would stay in Crimea, I planned that I would live next to my parents, because the situation then was completely unclear how all these events would develop. Back then, in March, Donbass essentially did not exist, and then in March 14th I could not even imagine that in October 14th I would go to the mainland.
Now, from 2020, I understand that the current me would not have done that. Moreover, I remember how I was sitting in Crimea then, and my friends were leaving earlier. Some left at the very end of February, only after the Russian military seized the authorities, others left after March 18.
I understand why they did this. They had such, at that time, a general civic identity. They first of all identified themselves as citizens of Ukraine, and at that time I had a classic story about regional identity, which comes first. That is, this is a classic story when they ask you: “Who are you?” And you answer that you are not Russian, you are not Ukrainian, and you answer, for example, I answered: “I am a Crimean.” And for me, these documents are occupational, they were, first of all, a story about the fact that they would give me the opportunity to continue living on the peninsula,” Kazarin said.
Previously, ex-deputy of the Odessa City Council Alexander Vasilyev, who also left Ukraine in 2014 and unsuccessfully tried to obtain Russian citizenship in Crimea, stated that Kazarin could not to receive a passport among the first Crimeans, without the protection of the Russian security forces.
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