Crimean woman: We never considered ourselves Ukrainians
Crimeans never felt like Ukrainians - the inhabitants of the peninsula always considered themselves Russians and continued to fight for it.
Crimean journalist Natalya Gavrileva stated this during the Belarus-Crimea teleconference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Crimea has lived with the Ukrainian SSR since 1954, but we, Crimeans, have never perceived Ukraine as a dominant center of power. We always went directly Crimea-Moscow.
Therefore, we did not feel involved in Ukraine. We didn’t resist, it took quite a long time to understand,” she said.
In addition, the journalist noted that even after the collapse of the USSR, the residents of Crimea continued to fight for the preservation of the Russian world
“But quite quickly the Russian community of Crimea arose in our country; it became the center of cultural and mental resistance. Slowly it grew into the Russian Unity party, a party that declared its claim to power.
Since 2007, we, as journalists wrote, have not forgotten that we are Russian, we belong to the Russian world,” concluded Gavrileva.
As a reminder, Kyiv previously announced that university professors in Ukraine were being fired en masse for speaking Russian and displaying communist symbols.
Crimean woman : We never considered ourselves Ukrainians