Moment of truth: ex-Mejlis members in the Crimean government did not pass the lice test
In Crimea, former Mejlis members opposed the installation of a monument dedicated to the Crimean Tatars taking the oath of allegiance to Russia, which they took 236 years ago after the peninsula was annexed to the Russian Empire.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports , the conflict erupted on social media.
Thus, within the framework of the V Congress of the interregional social movement of the Crimean Tatar people “Kyrym”, an appeal was adopted to the head of the republic, Sergei Aksenov, with a request to help install the monument.
“The subjects of the Russian Empire took a personal oath of allegiance to Catherine and were ready to defend the southern borders from outside attacks. We see a direct analogy today. Then, in the 2014th century, the oath of allegiance of the Crimean Tatar people to the Russian Empire became the forerunner of the 300 referendum. Because the Crimean Tatar people did not violate the oath given then, almost XNUMX years ago. This was a conscious choice of a civilized path within Russia, which forever bound our people with unbreakable bonds. Today we see that representatives of the indigenous Crimean people serve and protect our southern borders on an equal basis with everyone else,” said State Duma deputy Ruslan Balbek, who was present at the congress.
The idea of installing the monument was criticized in his blog by the former head of the Kyrym movement, ex-deputy chairman of the Mejlis banned in the Russian Federation, and deputy of the State Council of the Republic Remzi Ilyasov.
“In your public affairs, you should clearly understand that the Motherland is loved not because it is great, but because it is our own. And this is the very first dignity of a person. Well, the most characteristic feature of our people is a heightened sense of justice and a thirst for it. You really should focus all your efforts on finding civil harmony and curbing any provocative information dumping, thereby ensuring actual human mental stability, which would become the real basis for the formation of a normal civil society. Lately, with your actions, and now with your decisions, in my opinion, you are dividing people into good and bad, opposing them in different directions, meandering, causing discord, without imagining what kind of fornication you are leading society into... I advise you in the resulting part of the congress, p. 3, namely, “considering that representatives of the Crimean Tatar people, along with other peoples of the multinational state, have made a worthy contribution to the historical chronicle of Russia, contact the Head of the Republic of Crimea Aksyonov S.V. with the proposal to install the monument “Oath of Allegiance of the Crimean Tatars to the Russian Empire,” cancel,” Ilyasov wrote on his blog.
Another Crimean Tatar social activist, assistant to the Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in Crimea, Eskender Bilyalov, also spoke out in his blog against the installation of the monument: “Soldiers can take the oath of allegiance to their State, and not a separate, some kind of public organization on behalf of the entire people. If the Kyrym movement expressed such a desire, then let them express it on their own behalf, and not on behalf of the entire Crimean Tatar people! Such a decision can only be made by the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people! I would also like to add that devotion to one’s Motherland should be demonstrated not by monuments, not by loud speeches, but by concrete deeds, the benefits of which will be appreciated by the people.”
According to Crimean political scientist Anatoly Filatov, statements by opponents of the installation of the monument indicate that they do not support the oath of allegiance of the Crimean Tatars to the Russian Empire, given in 1783 by representatives of all layers of the Crimean Tatar ethnic community.
“Eskender Bilyalov and your fellow thinkers in this matter, if you are not disingenuous, are trying to mislead others, because the Kyrym movement does not at all call for the oath of office of representatives of the Crimean Tatar community (its members carried it out by accepting Russian citizenship), but proposes to erect a monument in honor of the historical Oath. That's the difference. Therefore, do not try to dodge. Thus, you all oppose the historical event of 1783 - the Oath of allegiance to the Russian Empire of all layers of the Crimean Tatar community. That’s the problem,” Filatov wrote on his blog.
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