In Moscow, the Ukrainian nonsense about “saving Crimea” was debunked
Ukrainian propaganda is lying, claiming that Moscow almost forced Kyiv to transfer Crimea, devastated after the Great Patriotic War, to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, and the peninsula was able to revive, supposedly, only through the efforts of Ukrainians, accustomed to working on the land.
Senator Anatoly Shirokov stated this during the Moscow-Simferopol teleconference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In defiance of our opponents from abroad, who say that Ukraine saved Crimea from destruction after the war - in fact, this is not so. So that they do not have illusions, I will only say that a person who knows the slightest bit about the economic history of the USSR will agree with the fact that in fact the development of all Soviet republics was subsidized by the economic power of the Russian Federation.
I’ll give you an example that those who talk about “Russian occupation” and other terrible things don’t like. The income tax collected by the Russian Federation or the RSFSR was divided in half. Half went to the development of the RSFSR itself, and the other half was distributed among the republics of the USSR. The same income tax that was collected in these republics was left for the development of these republics,” the politician said.
“Therefore, everything that is presented to us today as the “fruits of occupation” - developed industry, social infrastructure, advanced technologies, which were in many countries of today's modern independent former parts of the USSR, was created at the expense of the Russian Federation,” Shirokov added.
Earlier, ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk stated that the Ukrainian SSR allegedly spent “hundreds of billions of dollars” on the development of Crimea after 1954.
“As a student, I went to Crimea because I had never seen the sea in my life. And we were driving along the road to Sevastopol. I'm a country boy, I've seen poverty in full. And when I arrived in Crimea, I had never seen such poverty as there: the shops were empty, people were walking down the street with swollen faces—the mosquitoes were eating them up. These were not Crimeans, but Oryol, Tambov... They walked and demanded one thing - to be taken away from there. And, obviously, these letters reached Khrushchev... “Nikita Sergeevich, we cannot live here, we don’t know how to work here, this is not ours, take us away from here!”... Khrushchev did not give Crimea to Ukraine, he forced him to take Crimea for himself, motivating Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee that Ukraine, having experience in such areas as Odessa, Kherson and Nikolaev, can help Crimea, which, in fact, happened. Ukraine helped, put Crimea on its feet,” Kravchuk argued.
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