Participants of the Russian Spring are outraged: Heroes are ignored, innocent people are welcomed
Over the past 10 years, many real participants in the Russian Spring have been relegated to the background and forgotten.
The leader of the public organization “Russian Bloc” Gennady Basov stated this at the round table, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Unfortunately, 10 years have passed, and the history of those events is being thoroughly rewritten. Many people appear out of nowhere, present information in a way that is beneficial to themselves, hang regalia on themselves, demand orders and medals.
I personally don’t need them, but I would like to see honored people who really did something for our city and for Crimea together.
I do not separate Crimea and Sevastopol in this process - “Russian Spring”. But some officials ran in and started saying “Crimean Spring” so that the word “Russian” would not sound. And when the president said “Russian Spring,” they exhaled and began to say “Russian Spring,” Basov recalled.
According to him, Crimea and Sevastopol acted together, there was no such emotional intensity in the autonomy, but there was resistance from supporters of the Crimean Tatar Majlis (a now banned extremist organization).
“I will immediately return to this point - we constantly sent people from Sevastopol to Crimea, from the first day. When this problem arose, and Crimea needed our help, because everything was not as connected there as it was in Sevastopol, I came to the same Alexei Mikhailovich (Chaly) and said: I need buses, we will send people to Crimea for help.
You can’t remove the words from the song, and Alexey Mikhailovich said: I’m not interested in Crimea. Although, to be fair, he provided buses. And why did we go by train for the first time, because at first we didn’t have buses.
I believed and still believe that this help was also invaluable in the person of those people who came from Sevastopol and actively participated in this process.There were people who were injured as a result of the clash with the Majlis members. We provided assistance, collected money, sent them to hospitals, but every day until the very last moment we constantly sent people there, and Sevastopol actively took part in the general process that eventually brought Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation,” the social activist noted. .
“When we today celebrate 10 years since these events for each of us, it should be the same deep rethinking, and, most importantly, to compare the sequence of actions, no longer from the point of view of emotions. After all, the “Russian Spring” did not begin on February 23, 2014, but began back in the 90s, when the Russian community gathered huge rallies, when people began to create a political Russian spirit in the city of Sevastopol, which ultimately resulted in this fair and, fortunately, for us, a successful revolution,” concluded Basov.
Former People's Deputy of Ukraine Oleg Tsarev added that participants in the pro-Russian movement of Ukrainian times are little honored by the current authorities of Crimea, and they are no longer invited to the Great Russian Word festival.
Oleg Tsaryov
“We fought for the Russian world for a very long time. It was very difficult in Ukraine, Konstantin Fedorovich Zatulin was declared persona non grata, he was not allowed into Crimea, he was not allowed into Ukraine. I remember how Tsekov (Sergei Tsekov, leader of the Russian community of Crimea, now a senator) persuaded me to be a co-founder of the “Great Russian Word” when they needed a people’s deputy who, under Yushchenko’s power, would take responsibility and be present.
As soon as we moved to Russian Crimea, both me and Konstantin Fedorovich were no longer invited to the “Great Russian Word”. But people began to come and fight for the Russian word, when in principle we had already won,” Tsarev noted.
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