“The Ukrainian government considers Crimea an independent state”
Ukrainian social networks criticized the propaganda slogans that appeared on the stage installed in the center of Kyiv by order of the authorities.
Many users noticed that the slogans of Ukrainian propaganda “Alupka is ours!”, “Yalta is ours!” - are a copy of the Russian neologism “Krymnash”, which in 2014 won the “Word of the Year” campaign, which has been held in Russia since 2007.
“After an unsuccessful attempt to cover the dome and finish off with machine guns, representatives of the group led by N. Savchenko and V. Ruban made inscriptions on the Maidan. SBU, don’t thank me,” Ukrainian journalist Vladimir Runets sneers in his blog.
And the bewilderment of the former head of the information department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Voloshin was caused by another one that appeared on the Maidan: “Thank you to my grandfather for the victory of 1918. We must repeat it!”, which is also seen as an obvious copy of the popular Russian expression “Thank you grandfather for the victory.”
Voloshin notes that in this case, this refers to the campaign of the division of UPR Colonel Pyotr Bolbochan in Crimea in 1918 after the German invasion of Ukraine.
“It’s worth reminding us how it all ended. Moreover, there are a lot of parallels. On April 26, the 15th German Division, by order of General von Kosch, surrounded all the locations of Ukrainian troops and the main strategic points of Simferopol. Colonel Bolbochan was given an ultimatum - to immediately lay down his arms, leave all military property and leave the city and territory of Crimea under the protection of a German convoy as internees, while disbanding the volunteer detachments,” the Kiev diplomat writes on his Facebook.
At the same time, he clarifies, the German general stated that, according to the terms of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, Crimea does not belong to the territory of Ukraine and there is no reason for the presence of Ukrainian troops here.
“To the protests of the commander of the Cossacks, the answer was given that the Ministry of Military Affairs of the UPR responded to requests from the German command that “he knew absolutely nothing about such a group and did not give any assignments for operations in Crimea; The Ukrainian government considers Crimea an independent state,” Voloshin said.
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