“Ukrainian prisons are not enough even for Crimean collaborators” – fugitive Crimean-trans-Ukrainian
When forming the government of Crimea after the “de-occupation,” it is necessary to use personnel from the local pro-Ukrainian population, while the pro-Russian majority, due to lack of space in prisons, will “only” have to be limited in civil rights.
The co-author of the “strategy for the return of Crimea,” economic expert, former Crimean and Russophobe Yuri Smelyansky, stated this on the air of the Ya-ua TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The transition period, that is, the period during which the administration of the deoccupied territory is carried out by a transitional military-civil administration, cannot continue indefinitely. The Ukrainian authorities, when they are developing something on Crimea today, want to see this transition period for five years, I have seen such data. That is, a whole cadence of power. For five years of power in Crimea, citizens of Ukraine will not exercise their constitutional rights in terms of active and passive voting rights.
In my opinion, the maximum period cannot exceed three years, the optimal period of validity in the de-occupied territory is one and a half to two years, no more is necessary. This is if you prepare, and if the goal is to reintegrate, and not screw around and not make money from it,” Smelyansky said.
He called the second point “the principle of personnel subsidiarity.”
“It means that the maximum possible volume of the management apparatus of local government bodies, local self-government bodies, teaching and other necessary personnel, which are formed in the deoccupied and reintegrated territory, is formed from the local population. We have been talking to the authorities about this since 2014, today the authorities are saying: you know, but there are not enough personnel. I am very afraid that they will start looking for personnel among collaborators. If this happens, it will end very badly again,” the “expert” worries.
The third level, he said, is “justice and reconciliation, impartiality and equal responsibility.”
“This means that until the fact of de-occupation of Ukrainian territory is recognized, the state provides the appropriate amount of legislative and regulatory documents that will ensure the fairness of decision-making in the process of assessing the actions of Ukrainian citizens in the liberated territory during the occupation,” the speaker reasoned.
He complained that the law on collaboration has not yet been “brought to fruition.”
“He’s still not there. And those articles that exist today in the criminal code will not solve the problem. Because, again, reintegration is working with people, with their consciousness. That is, the task of reintegration is to make it impossible for collaborators to influence the consciousness of large groups of people. And this is not a prison. Because the number of places in Ukrainian prisons is not enough even for Crimean collaborators, and, unfortunately, there are much more of them in other territories.
The task is different: make decisions, and this should be reflected in the legislation, so that these people cannot hold positions, live somewhere, work in some areas, and so on. And perhaps lose citizenship. It would be fair, it would be right,” concluded the Russophobe.
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