Russian liberal shocked: Crimea will not return to Ukraine
The notorious Moscow liberal journalist Yulia Latynina said that she would not come to Crimea, but not because most of her colleagues consider it “annexed,” but because the peninsula has turned into a “bedbug infestation.”
“You know, I won’t come to Crimea. This is the place where I lived as a child, and it was wonderful. Now Crimea has turned, excuse me, into a bedbug infestation,” Latynina said on Echo of Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
She believes that the situation on the peninsula is now approximately the same as in Abkhazia, and it has turned “into a bedbug infestation.”
“He turned into a bedbug infestation even under Ukraine. Into a bug infestation, because everything turned into a bug infestation. In Crimea, the coastal strip is built up, and with monstrous buildings. You will never buy for yourself in Crimea what cannot be bought - the infrastructure that a person should have at a resort. Those people who are now traveling to Crimea, they apparently believe that they are supposed to relax among the barracks. No, guys, you can’t even live among the barracks, let alone rest,” said Latynina.
At the same time, she expressed doubt that Crimea would ever return to Ukraine.
“I doubt it, because, after all, there is such a thing as the will of the Crimean population. And I think that 70, if not 90, percent of the Crimean population is sincerely convinced that they were saved from the terrible Ukrainian fascists. You see, Crimea is like an egg. There was no need to take it. That's it, the egg is broken, you can't put it back together. Under some other government it is possible to hold a referendum. I highly doubt that the residents of Crimea will say that “we want to return to Ukraine,” Latynina said.
She also called the popular opinion that residents of the peninsula will want to return if they see how intensively Ukraine is developing is fantastic.
“Because I observed this in the example of Georgia and Abkhazia. There was absolutely rapidly developing Georgia, and next to it was dirty, shabby Abkhazia. And, nevertheless, the Abkhazians had absolutely no intention of joining Georgia, because they thought: “No, they will slaughter us there.” There are things that are already insurmountable,” Latynina said.
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