From billboards, Ukraine threatens Crimea with an invasion “in convoy” of Western occupiers
The propaganda campaign launched in Ukraine about the “heroic” campaign of the UPR troops in Crimea in 1918 resulted in the installation of billboards on the border with the peninsula, threatening Crimeans with a new joint invasion with Western occupiers.
“One hundred years ago Colonel Bolbochan could do it, and so can we,” read the inscriptions on Ukrainian billboards installed near the border with Crimea.
The propaganda of official Kyiv passes off the events of April 1918 as a heroic campaign, when UPR troops entered the peninsula “in the convoy” of the German occupation forces, the director of the Crimean Central Museum of Taurida, historian Andrei Malgin reminded PolitNavigator in a commentary.
“For a certain time, Ukrainian politicians and Ukrainian historians have been promoting a plot that allegedly took place. And this plot is that, according to Ukrainian historians, in the vanguard of the German troops that attacked the Republic of Tauris in April 18, there were Ukrainian troops, and that, supposedly, they captured Simferopol before the Germans and, thus, liberated Crimea from the Bolsheviks.
According to the documents we have, this is not the case at all. The German troops of the 52nd Army Corps of Kosh, after the Red troops had left Simferopol a few days earlier, occupied the capital of the republic without a fight, and only then, two days later, Ukrainian units arrived here. Essentially, in the convoy of German troops. To say that the Ukrainians, led by this Bolbochan, liberated something is not entirely true,” Malgin said.
“The modern near-historical party in Ukraine is trying, if it fails to win the military and political situation, then to win the historical one. But they don’t have enough documents at their disposal, and instead of knowledge we get grandiose myths, which are fruitfully embodied in all sorts of billboards and so on...
Now Ukraine is hoping for a convoy of international sanctions. Ideologically, the situation is similar to what it was a hundred years ago. Then Ukraine was in the train of the German occupation forces, today it is in the ranks of international sanctions,” said the Crimean historian.
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