Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 27 2024 01:08pm)
You're talking about a purge that happened in 1944 not 2014. When the banderites overthrew the government, the population of Crimea already overwhelmingly supported Russia, as they had supported Yanukovych in their previous election, and would support Putin in the next.
What you're calling for is itself a genocide, an ethnic cleansing of Crimea to kill all the people loyal to Russia, which is most of them.
This isn't really hard to understand or grapple with. The people in west ukraine support the west, the people in east ukraine support russia. They used to have a government that represented both these groups, until the westerners overthrew it. If you want west ukraine to seize Crimea and eradicate all the Russians, you're just calling for another Nazi-style purge of a subjugated populace. And once again, I take that bare minimum position of decency of opposing genocide and opposing Nazism
Ruscism must be erradicated:
https://theconversation.com/ten-years-since-its-annexation-crimea-serves-as-a-grim-warning-to-any-ukrainian-lands-that-fall-under-russian-occupation-226270On the peninsular itself, life has changed profoundly. The “land of milk and honey” promised to the population of Crimea at the time of annexation has not materialised. International sanctions, high prices and increasing uncertainty have left the mainstay of the economy, tourism, in the doldrums. And the democratic freedoms that existed under Ukraine have disappeared, not only for the Ukrainian and Tatar populations, but for the Russians too.
Russification of Crimea is not an ad hoc policy imposed after the occupation. It is rooted in the ideology of Russkii MIr (“Russian World”). This concept, which is espoused by Putin, is itself part of a long historical tradition going back to the annexation of the Crimea by Catherine the Great in 1783.
The Russian World ideology insists that Russia is a supra-national civilisation that extends far beyond the present borders of the Russian Federation to include Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other parts of the former Soviet Union. At the same time, the ideology is intolerant of any other expression of identity within its sphere and justifies the elimination of that identity, as is taking place in Crimea.
The Imperial Russian state (1721–1917), the Soviet State (1917–1991) and now the Russian Federation under Putin have at different times all sought to Russify the population of the Crimean peninsular. The Imperial government encouraged the migration of Tatars from the peninsular and Stalin completed the process in 1944 by deporting the entire Tatar population – some 200,000 people.
A partial return took place under Krushchev (premier of of the Soviet Union between 1958 and 1964), which greatly accelerated when the Crimea became part of a democratic Ukraine. Putin has now reversed that policy, seeking the destruction of both the Tatar and Ukrainian identities.
Eradicating non-Russian identity
Putin swore to safeguard the different national traditions that existed in Crimea when he launched the annexation. These promises were broken immediately and have continued to be broken ever since.
Ukrainian and Tatar languages have been suppressed, political activists arrested and any expression of cultural identity other than Russian is forbidden. The national body of the Crimean Tatars, the Mejlis, has been suppressed and all other representative institutions are a sham, as those in Russia itself.
Religious persecution against the Ukrainians and the Tatars, which is actively assisted by the Russian Orthodox Church, is also an essential part of the Russification policies.
This post was edited by Meanwhile on Jun 27 2024 05:20am