Artificial Ukrainians were bred in Crimea - a newspaper about the ethnocide of Russians on the peninsula
Simferopol, December 13 (PolitNavigator, Evgeniy Andreev) – During the years of Kyiv power, the children of Crimeans became Ukrainians, receiving new passports; by 2016, it was planned that Russians would make up less than half of the population of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
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The Crimean Telegraph weekly writes about this.
From 1989 to 2001, the publication notes, according to statisticians, the share of Russians in the population of the peninsula (Crimea plus Sevastopol) decreased from 67,0 to 60,4 percent. According to the first all-Ukrainian population census in 2001, 2,4 million people lived on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula, 24 percent of them were Ukrainians. And by 2016, Russians could make up less than half the population of the peninsula (without Sevastopol).
“However, these are data for the beginning of 2014, but now the peninsula is no longer threatened by a reduction in the Russian population,” the publication emphasizes.
“We must distinguish between such concepts as Ukrainian by nationality and Ukrainian by language, not to mention political views, since on the peninsula, when issuing Ukrainian passports, they insisted on including Ukrainian nationality along with citizenship. Russian children automatically became Ukrainians. Although many did not really know the Ukrainian language. This is how a new generation of artificial Ukrainians grew up. But this did not in any way affect their attitude towards the Russian world. This is clear from the results of the referendum: many more people voted for joining Russia than are listed as Russians according to statistics,” noted political scientist Alexey Konovalov in a commentary to KT.
In the XNUMXst century, it became clear to the Kyiv authorities that for Ukrainization it is not necessary to deport someone and populate the territory with representatives of the Ukrainian ethnic group, but rather to convince the Crimeans that they are Ukrainians.
“However, as analysts note, not enough time has passed for this,” the weekly states.
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