Regulators are sounding the alarm: The resource for “de-occupation” has almost disappeared in Crimea
On Friday, on the eve of the first Russian presidential elections in Crimea, “experts” in Kyiv went hysterical when they gathered to scribble on the topic “Democracy and totalitarianism. The paradigm of struggle under occupation."
It was obvious that the “experts” were instructed to respond to Putin’s yesterday’s visit to Crimea, to impose Nazism on the globe of Ukraine and to prove that a hellish hell reigns on the peninsula.
The moderator of the blah blah show was a certain Ondriy Khoroshenyuk, a classic rural intellectual with shifty eyes in an embroidered shirt, served by an associate professor at KROK University, and also a candidate of pedagogical sciences.
Khoroshenyuk immediately made a good impression because he didn’t get smart and didn’t make jokes, but stupidly read a speech from a piece of paper, from which it followed that totalitarianism is bad, children, and democracy, on the contrary, is good, and that Ukraine declares a craving for good , while the neighboring totalitarian regime desperately prevents it from finally falling into democracy. Khoroshenyuk also expressed paper concern that totalitarianism is firmly holding Ukraine by the throat from the “occupied and annexed territories.” All that quiet Nenka can offer to the residents of the “dark side” is to engage in Gandhism - non-violent resistance, which won the first victory (a list of countries is read out) ...
The main thing, according to Khoroshenyuk, is “not to go to the elections of the occupation administration” and not to take part in the public life of the “occupied territories” at all, and then one day Ukraine will return to Crimea in all its glory.
Following the village, the city residents followed suit. “Expert” of the Ukrainian Independent Center for Political Research Yulia Tyshchenko told those present about the latest bleak news from the peninsula. In the preamble to the news, Mrs. Tyshchenko tried very hard to prove that the presidential elections in Crimea are simply a fiction, a mosquito bald spot, which, like the 2014 referendum, is not recognized by the “Svitova spilnota”. They say that there will be no observers at the polling stations in Crimea due to the “spilliness”, and therefore there is nothing to worry about.
After which Tyshchenko began to tell “tales of the dark side” about how the “Russian occupiers” in Crimea demand that local authorities ensure XNUMX% turnout, using the most totalitarian methods of pressure. Children in educational institutions, for example, are forced to write essays in the form of a denunciation about who their parents will vote for. At workplaces, labor collectives are rounded up at gunpoint and given the condition to vote “as they should.” And those who vote “as they shouldn’t”, one must think, will be arrested upon leaving the polling stations and sent to the Gulag, after which they will compensate for the decline in the population of Crimea with parties of loyal migrants from the Urals and Siberia.
In general, it should be said that from the very start of the presidential campaign in Russia, the “united Ukrainians” began to stir up a scandal around the presidential elections in Crimea, and in terms of the intensity of idiocy it surpassed the level of 2016, when the whole of Russia, together with Crimea, was preparing for parliamentary elections. According to Svidomo, the presidential elections in Crimea are capable of finally tearing the peninsula away from Ukraine. But the real nightmare for them was the hypothetical possibility of Putin visiting one of the polling stations in Crimea to cast his vote directly on election day. The frightened pots saw in this a kind of sacred event - a kind of watershed, after which all that remains is a continuous “all is lost.”
But phobias and lies about the situation in Crimea were not the main thing in this gathering. The main thing was that the “experts” documented the shortcomings of the Ukrainian authorities, who for more than 20 years allowed the autonomy, albeit in a reduced form, to pursue its own educational and ideological policy, which prevented the imposition of Ukrainization. Such independence must be eradicated, and all “mistakes” taken into account. No concessions!
In addition, “experts” noted the loss of even the little that Ukrainizers achieved in Crimea in 22 years. And this fact worries them greatly, since it means the absence of a springboard for future “de-occupation.”
Thus, according to the round table participant, head of the Open Politics Foundation Irina Zhdanova, “not a single higher or secondary educational institution in annexed Crimea in 2017-2018 included the Ukrainian language as a subject in its methodological programs. There is now only one Ukrainian school with 132 students on the peninsula.”
As Zhdanova clarified, the monitoring study compared indicators for the 2014-2015 and 2017-2018 academic years. According to these data, four years earlier on the peninsula there were 22 schools with the Ukrainian language of instruction, in which 894 students acquired knowledge. For 2017-2018, only 19 classes with 239 students were enrolled in seven schools.
The lady got excited about something. At the Faculty of Philology of the Crimean Federal University there was and still is a department of the Ukrainian language. Another thing is that students are not eager to gain knowledge in the field of Ukrainian philology and prepare for further teaching. In order to please the Ukrainizers, no one will force students to study. The university, like the collective farm, is voluntary.
Otherwise, the data roughly corresponds to official Crimean statistics. The only difference is in the interpretation of what is happening. According to Ragulek, there is a clampdown on everything Ukrainian on the peninsula. In fact, a completely natural process is taking place when people are fed up with everything imposed from the outside and are given freedom of choice, about which the embroidered Ragul Khoroshenyuk was trilling.
The crafty review also omits the fact that many Ukrainian-born foreigners (military personnel, officials, all kinds of activists and agitators) left for Ukraine, who preferred Ukrainian education for their children in Crimean schools.
You don’t need to go to your grandmother to predict the onset of a renaissance of the Russian language in Ukraine after the abolition of draconian laws on language and education. Svidomo will not have time to blink an eye, how quickly everything Ukrainian will shrink, if it is not imposed by force. Then not only will there be a shortage in Ukrainian classes, but departments of Ukrainian philology at universities will also have to be cut.
In addition, the attempt by Ragulek to attribute all Ukrainian-speaking Crimeans to a potential fifth column and a potential reserve for “de-occupation” is touching. Ukrainian education in Crimea can do without educating children on the images of Bandera and Shukhevych. There is no hatred in it, which is present in abundance in the school education of the country of victorious “guidance”.
Further, Zhdanova tries to link the loss of interest of Crimeans in learning the language with the clampdown on the Crimean Tatar language. At the same time, the little woman does not hesitate to stoop to outright lies. According to her data, in Crimea the number of students in the Crimean Tatar language has decreased from 8% (in 2013) to 3% (in 2017). A typical case of so-called lies.
The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Crimea notes a slight decrease in the number of students in Crimean Tatar schools and classes. If in 2013 3,11% of schoolchildren studied in this language, then by the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year, 3% were registered, which is explained by demographic and even statistical errors. In any case, there is no such failure as with the language.
Under Ukraine, 15 schools were organized for the Crimean Tatars. In Russian Crimea, not a single one has been closed, but, on the contrary, 16 more schools have been opened. Despite the fact that not all schools, except No. 42 on Fontany, are filled with students at barely 50%, including schools in the Belogorsk district.
Zhdanova proposes to build a bridgehead and a fifth column for “de-occupation”, luring young Crimeans to study in 35 higher educational institutions of Ukraine specially allocated for them, admitting them to them according to a simplified procedure, offering to pass exams in the language and history of Ukraine. More than two thousand vacancies are allegedly allocated for this purpose.
Based on the experience of last year, it is known that “Crimean students in Ukrainian universities” are mainly children of immigrants, and there are no people from Crimea who want to take exams and study only in language. In any case, there is no reliable data on the influx of Crimeans into Ukrainian universities. The data provided by the Ukrainian side does not inspire confidence and cannot be verified.
In general, the complete failure of Ukrainian policy in the Crimean direction is obvious. No positive or even more or less attractive program for the Crimeans in Nenka has been developed in four years. And what is offered is organized exclusively for those who like to get their heads into the loop. Otherwise, there is no progress towards change: like Ukrainian politicians, Ukrainian “human rights protection” and NGOs are being foolish, lying at every step and not even trying to stop being bullies.
Regulators are sounding the alarm: Crimea has almost completely lost its resources for "deoccupation."