What is happening in Crimea is sabotage and forgery in relation to Russia, - Sevastopol writer
Simferopol, March 26 (PolitNavigator, Evgeny Andreev) – The process of returning Crimea and Sevastopol to their homeland turned out to be unexpectedly difficult.
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A Sevastopol prose writer and columnist writes about this "Free Press" Platon Besedin.
“There are no questions with the metaphysical - psychological, cultural, mental - component, but with the specific implementation, with the mechanics, physics of the process, a weighty volume of reflections, complaints and proposals has formed. And from this perspective, what is happening today in Crimea and Sevastopol is sabotage and frame-up in relation to the Russian Federation. People were waiting for their mother to return, but they got a stepmother, and when they come into contact with her, they increasingly fall into a state of panic: “Were we waiting for her? Should they have come?” notes the author of the publication.
The desired image became distorted as it moved from point A to point B:
“It’s as if along the way he was captured, mutilated, mocked, and a spoiled, worse version reached his final destination, and the accompanying people are to blame for this, first of all - those who have been in the Crimean grain fields since the times of Ukraine, having survived both Yanukovych and Kuchma , and they are not going to go anywhere. Crimeans wanted a new reality, but they got the same, old, but as if marked by Russia.”
On the other hand, the writer notes, the situation that has developed on the peninsula actually demonstrated the shortcomings that have discredited and tormented the Russian Federation all this time:
“Disadvantages that indicate: “Something is wrong in this harbor. It needs inventory, restoration, modernization (the list goes on).” In many ways, Crimea today is the prism through which all of Russia is perceived.”
And now, no, no, yes, in the Crimean and Sevastpol queues of social institutions they will remember “that pre-Maidan Ukraine, where, it seemed, there were not so many problems - primarily bureaucratic - in the field of healthcare, education, benefits and payments.”
Yes, this is more of a myth, Besedin clarifies, but time polishes even the most terrible shortcomings:
“Twenty minutes among ordinary people, tortured then and again by life - and the television image of Crimea, exuding oil, crumbles, collapses.
– My husband is a cancer patient. I couldn’t get him into the hospital for two months. Finally they put it down. But after a while they say - take it! There is nothing to treat; the city has not purchased medicine. What about yourself? Let me buy it myself. No, it's not allowed! We have free medicine. So why should he die? - a woman tells me in the first city hospital,” says the author.
There are many such stories, he emphasizes:
“Russia is very familiar with them. There is no need to collect them - they pursue themselves. All the more quickly, under the streams of truth, the sugar myth is melting away that state employees and pensioners, not counting the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations (their material side of life has indeed improved), began to live better in Crimea. They didn't. Because, for the most part, they never received any additional payments or raises. As a rule, they kept the salaries they had in Ukraine: they simply multiplied the amount in hryvnias by three, converting them into rubles. But prices have increased 3-4 times.
But the point is not in the way it was before - it certainly won’t be like this anymore - and not in the sanctions, and not in the transport and logistics blockade, which the media prefer not to notice, and not in the exorbitant prices, which after the Ukrainian, past and the current ones, it is still difficult to get used to - the point is in the absence of concrete steps that break the melancholy of reality. Increasingly, Sevastopol and Crimean residents ask themselves and others: “What constructive things have been done in a year? What are the achievements, results? There is often no encouraging, positive answer,” Besedin laments.
But on the other, dark side, there are plenty of negative facts, arguments, and evidence:
“And it’s increasingly obvious to most: the local authorities are not coping with their tasks. Almost every decision she makes causes rejection and misunderstanding. That’s why in Kerch, the celebration of the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to Russia turned into a rally against the city authorities demanding resignation.”
The main problem of Crimea today remains the same as it was twenty years ago - “squeezing”, carried out under the guise of nationalization:
“Hundreds of objects, linked into one, are taken for further resale. First, they are blocked by trained people, and then questions with documents begin. As a result, thousands of people remain unemployed. A good example here is the situation with Crimean boarding houses and holiday homes.
And in this context, what is happening today on the peninsula is in many ways reminiscent of the picture from the nineties, when Ukraine, having received Crimea, decided to make a quick profit from its riches. New times repeat the same mistakes. Fortunately, there is a screen for this, draping dubious actions with patriotism,” the author reflects.
Of course, he emphasizes, this is largely a consequence of a troubled, transitional time, which has its own a priori difficulties.
“But in general, the prospects for Russian Crimea at this stage seem more rosy than for Ukrainian Crimea, and the current uncontrolled situation will undoubtedly be resolved, but this must be done as early and efficiently as possible, so as not to repeat previous mistakes and then correct them in severe , operational style. Fortunately, in the form of the peninsula, Russia received not only sticklers and penny-pinchers, but also, mainly, active, educated patriots of a new type, unclouded by “mainland” ambitions, waiting for a chance to be realized, benefiting the state; Crimea gained not only the opportunity for intensive development , but also the Motherland in its highest sense,” summarizes Platon Besedin.
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