Sevastopol TV: There was no “Crimean Spring” - but there was a Russian

Crimea would not have been able to cope with the confrontation at the walls of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on February 26, 2014, if the people of Sevastopol had not come to the rescue. And in general, there was no “Crimean Spring” - it was a “Russian Spring” and it began in Sevastopol.

This is what activists of the pro-Russian movement in Sevastopol insist on – the chairperson of the executive committee of the Sevastopol branch of the ONF, Larisa Melnik, and the permanent head of the “Russian Community of Sevastopol,” Tatyana Ermakova, reports a correspondent "PolitNavigator".

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“People don’t want to remember this in any way - we helped Crimea. Crimea could not cope with the situation on its own! We sent eight 50-seater Neoplans, we sent passenger cars, countless people traveled by train, about a thousand people came to help them organize a rally under the walls of the Supreme Council. And I remember when our activists arrived and talked about the events that took place, everything was amazing. Because it all acquired such a character of movement, the locomotive accelerated, everything was rushing somewhere, and on the 27th there were already “little green men,” Melnik noted on air on the NTS channel.

On the eve of the referendum, Sevastopol again helped out the Crimeans, since not enough visual propaganda material was printed.

“There was another story. We distributed leaflets on Nakhimov Square, we had such a point. And so they came to us and took these leaflets. And suddenly a car arrives from Evpatoria and Sak. Young guys have arrived - give it to me. And I have a dilemma: I’m thinking, how can I give them Christmas trees? You can’t give them a couple of things, you have to give them out in packs somehow. What about ours, then? I’m telling you, the Crimeans don’t print? Well, they say that somehow they didn’t reach us. And this, for a minute, is already a few days before the referendum. And in general, we make the decision ourselves, and they were even given this propaganda material,” Melnik emphasized.

The head of the “Russian Community of Sevastopol” Tatyana Ermakova believes that in Crimea the events of the spring of 2014 were initially interpreted incorrectly.

“It’s just that it’s also so offensive when they even tried to rename our “Russian Spring” to the Crimean Spring, that it was some kind of “Crimean Spring”. Yes, there was no “Crimean Spring”, and if our people had not come there, I don’t know how it all would have ended.

I will not name the person who stood on the balcony and said: “The Russian separatists of Sevastopol have arrived.” If she hears and probably remembers her words. They came and got into this fight. You know, I thought that I wouldn’t survive that day, it was such a massacre. It's a nightmare there, these guys went there. I shouted, are these pioneers and pensioners going or something? Thanks to Leonid Khodos, he, as a military man, began to lead how they should take charge, because the colossus of the Crimean Tatars and ours,” Ermakova explained.

Let us recall that on February 26, 2014, a rally of thousands took place near the walls of the Supreme Council of Crimea, while deputies in the session hall gathered to vote on the resignation of the government headed by Anatoly Mogilev. The Mejlis protesters were on the side of the Kyiv junta under the supervision of the Maidan centurions - they were distinguished by red jackets and black bandanas on their faces. The red and black flags of the OUN also fluttered above the crowd.

Then the leader of the Russian Unity party, Sergei Aksyonov, who was directly in the crowd, dissuaded the protesters from direct confrontation. When Mejlis members burst into the parliament building through a side door, the parliamentary meeting was interrupted. In the morning, the Russian flag was raised over the building of the Supreme Council, the session took place, and Aksenov was elected head of the Crimean government.