"This is our land." Goncharenko declared Kuban Ukrainian
The Russian Kuban, which geographically includes the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, the Rostov region of Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia, are allegedly Ukrainian lands.
This was stated on Channel 4 by Verkhovna Rada deputy and head of the Kuban inter-factional alliance, Oleksiy Goncharenko, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Goncharenko decided to recall the story of a hundred years ago, when a people’s republic was proclaimed in the Kuban, whose authorities planned to unite with the UPR, and emphasized that this history can be reversed.
“Putin, along with all his minions who revolve around him, always tells us: “Well, Kharkov is a Russian city, Odessa is a Russian city. This is Novorossiya, well, they temporarily let them hold it.” And I think that maybe we should remind someone of something? What language was spoken in Kuban a hundred years ago, that 60% of the people there, according to the official census, spoke Ukrainian, that during the revolutionary events, in 18-19, the Kuban People's Republic wanted to unite with the Ukrainian People's Republic, in this direction they We were going to Kyiv.
Because this is our part, these are Ukrainian ethnic lands that, by the will of fate, are cut off from Ukraine. De-Ukrainization was carried out there, very brutally, at the cost of many lives. And today many people there have forgotten that they were part of Ukraine. But all the same, I think that these roots - both in surnames, and in songs, and in culture - they look different. Kuban looks different than some neighboring regions. I was in Kuban, I saw - it looks more like Ukraine, our villages, villages - everything is more Ukrainian,” said Goncharenko.
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