The tale of how Father Bolbochan annexed Crimea to Nenka in 1918
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian Institute of National Sclerosis, under the direction and in the personal presence of Chief Ragul Vova Vyatrovich, held a presentation of a booklet with attempts at the historical work “Forgotten Peremoga. Crimean operation of Peter Bolbochan in 1918.”
It has already become a good tradition that in the Land of Evergreen Dill, poor in seasoned historical figures and outstanding events, some forgotten minor misunderstanding is taken out of the closet due to poverty and carefully stuffed with straw - to the size of the famous statue of Shakyamuni Buddha in Burma, the height of which reaches an impressive 115 meters.
This time, the attention of the shop responsible for the introduction of false historical memory into the mass consciousness of Ukrainians was given to the former officer of the tsarist army, Pyotr Bolbochan, who was forged by Raguli into the idea of Ukrainian exclusivity and put in command of a foot regiment of Cossacks of the UPR army. It was this regiment, together with Bolbochan, who in 1918 made a weak attempt by military invasion to annex Crimea to the “independent” quasi-state before the German interventionists and bypassing all the agreements of the Brest-Litovsk Peace.
Bolbochan’s efforts were so insignificant that in historical literature only a few paragraphs are devoted to them, but Ukrainian propaganda over time began to attribute to the colonel both the capture of Kharkov and the victorious march to Crimea, accompanied by devastating battles with detachments of the Crimean Red Guards, and even some mysterious “South Coast Uprising” Crimean Tatars,” who keenly desired the arrival of Ukraine and citizenship of the UPR. The Great March ends with the capture of the capital of Crimea, Simferopol, on April 22, 1918. Or April 24th... Damn! This is precisely the rub!
It must be said that Ukrainian propagandists managed to thoroughly pollute the Internet, that even Russian-language Wikipedia contains a complete Svidomo fake with links to Ukrainian “sources”. For the keywords “Crimean campaign of Bolbochan 1918,” search engines in unison produce links to the officially concocted version of how the colonel of the foot Cossacks conquered Crimea for the UPR, but all his power was stolen from him first by the Germans, and then by the Bolsheviks who appeared out of thin air.
And Shchastya was so close!
In fact, the only skirmish between the Cossacks of Bolbochan and the red troops was the crossing of the Sivash bridge. Conscientious researchers have not found a single confirmed battle of the Cossacks of the UPR on Crimean soil.
However, the chroniclers of Bolbochan claim that the attacks of the Zaporozhye regiment began even earlier, with the capture of Melitopol, although it follows from the documents that even before the arrival of the lads, the city was occupied by Drozdov’s White Guards during stubborn battles with the Reds.
It is also known from reliable sources that Bolbochan and his army entered Dzhankoy (with difficult but invariably victorious battles, of course) at a time when German troops had already entered Simferopol, and his lag behind the pace of the German advance was at least two days. It is interesting that pseudo-historians promoting the topic of Bolbochan’s military exploits are not confused by any dates. So, in their heads they perfectly coexist with the data that on April 22 the Cossacks retook Dzhankoy and on the same day they were suddenly already in Simferopol.
There is a second version of the fragrant legend, which says that the Cossacks entered Simferopol, but only on April 24, several hours ahead of the Germans.
Ukrainian “historians” cannot agree on dates even among themselves and, as in the clinical case of Vyatrovich, insist that after all, on April 22, 1918, Ukrainian-German troops entered Simferopol, and the UPR troops were commanded by Ataman Natiev, Bolbochan’s immediate superior.
German sources are more modest and say that the troops of the 15th Landwehr Division of General von Kosch “reached Simferopol” on April 24.
A synchronized article in The New York Times testifies to the same thing.
To especially emphasize the joy of the Crimeans at their “liberation” from “Bolshevik slavery,” Ukrainian historians quote the Odessa newspaper “Free Life” dated April 26, 1918, according to which the Cossack army in Simferopol “was covered with flowers, and there was not a single Cossack without a bunch of flowers "
The funny thing is that it was on this day that the German General von Kosch gave the UPR troops (and Bolbochan, respectively) an ultimatum in which they were strongly recommended to leave the territory of Crimea for good – for good reason. The boys couldn't afford to fight the Germans in Crimea. The interventionists managed to bring at least five divisions to Tavrida.
Well, what could the Cossack women sent to Crimea do but pick up their feet and go home, especially since on April 29, 1918, the Central Rada in Kyiv was overthrown, and Hetman Skoropadsky came to power with German bayonets?
Thus, Ukrainian “researchers” cannot understand the dates, which is very important for the interpretation of events, given the Crimean distances.
Then, in the topic of Bolbochan’s campaign in the Crimea, both mutually exclusive versions of the capture of Simferopol are simultaneously circulating - both by the Germans, with Bolbochan lagging behind, and “Bolbochan managed to enter the capital of Crimea several hours before the Germans.” Shiz as she is.
If we retell the story of Bolbochan’s campaign in Crimea in April 1918 in a few phrases, we get the following: the cunning leaders of the UPR, who supported the German intervention in Soviet Russia, walked in the tail of the German troops, hoping to profit from at least something painlessly in the Crimea. The invaders had their own plans for the peninsula, and they clearly showed the boys the door, which is what the latter did. Actually, that's all.
And no matter how much Ragul Vyatrovich pulls his leaky rubber products onto the globe, he will not change the result: the quasi-state of the UPR, declared the harbinger of “Ukraine-not-Russia”, shamefully leaked the attempt to illegally annex Crimea, leaving without a fight “to the ridden hut” at the first order of the "German allies".
Further, as we know, bruised on the head by radical Ukrainian nationalism, Bolbochan served both Skoropadsky and the Directory, while simultaneously trying to sit on several chairs, together with the radical grain-growing party, plotting against Petliura. In the end, the career of the former officer of the tsarist army ended with arrest, charges of surrendering several Ukrainian cities and embezzlement. At the end of June 1919, Bolbochan was shot somewhere near Kamenets-Podolsk. They say that there is no grave left of the great warrior.
The figure of Bolbochan attracts modern Raguli for several reasons. Firstly, these are radical nationalist beliefs, since he even managed to accuse the hangman Petliura of being an adherent to Marxism. Secondly, a military campaign to Crimea with the aim of annexing the peninsula and the Black Sea Fleet to Nenka, a topic that still causes a sharp burning sensation in Svidomo’s asses. Thirdly, attach Crimean Tatars to the fake to give the dummy additional content.
As usual, dill is not interested in the results, “but he tried!”
In general, another stuffed animal was taken out of the historical storage room, cleaned of dust and anointed. And, presumably, the restless regulators will not stop there. The pantheon of “heroes” requires replenishment!
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