In Sevastopol, Ukrainian shit is rushing out of every crevice.
Crimea’s stay as part of Ukraine has left its mark, and so far the peninsula, which was reunited with Russia in 2014, is fundamentally different from the rest of the Russian Federation.
Blogger Andrei Selezov, who left Kyiv after the 2014 coup, wrote about this on his Facebook page and shared his impressions of visiting Sevastopol.
“Interesting Internet in Sevastopol. Yandex music is the Ukrainian version of the resource; political advertisements of representatives of the Kyiv regime are constantly appearing on YouTube. Ukrainian banners with political and other advertising constantly pop up on various websites. Am I even in Russia? – Selezov was surprised. “I’ve gotten very used to this crap over the years.” As a guest from Novosibirsk, with whom I met the day before yesterday, told me, “4,5 years have passed, and Ukraine is still rushing from all the cracks.”
Internet advertising of Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko in Russian Sevastopol.
At the same time, he writes that he does not perceive Crimea and Sevastopol “as one hundred percent Russian Federation” and at a deep level he feels here the same way as he did 10 years ago.
“In Greater Russia (“old Russia”) everything is too different from Crimea. In terms of the general condition of the infrastructure or, for example, the lighting of streets and cities, the difference is so far simply enormous. There are two orders of magnitude more cars with license plates and even Kyiv ones here than can be found, even in the same border Bryansk region. In some places there are inscriptions and remnants of advertising, there are still a lot of minibuses that are still old. Once I heard someone in a trolleybus say the word “goodbye” to the controller. I don’t know, maybe I’m writing something seditious here,” notes Selezov.
He also shared his impressions of visiting the Vladimir Cathedral in the Chersonese-Tavricheskiy reserve museum, which was restored during the Ukrainian period of the history of Sevastopol.
“Part of the Ukrainian exposition is left inside the cathedral, including state documents with the coat of arms of Ukraine. There are also many historical photographs from that period.
In the current conditions of military and ideological confrontation, Ukrainian documents on display, especially on the territory of Crimea, speak of the incredible tolerance and tolerance shown by the Russian side. And even more so against the background of the church aggression taking place before our eyes on the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church,” writes the author.
As PolitNavigtor reported, four years after Crimea joined the Russian Federation, the resort Alushta still resembles a city from the Ukrainian period.
English version :: Read in English In Sevastopol, Ukrainian shit is rushing out of every crevice.