In Sevastopol, Senator Kovitidi is reproached for distorting the history of the Russian Spring
Films and books dedicated to the events of 2014 often do not mention that the Russian Spring began with a rally of thousands in Sevastopol, where the leader of the uprising, Alexei Chaly, was elected. Instead, the authors of distorted chronologies prefer to focus only on the clashes near the Crimean parliament in Simferopol and the subsequent occupation of the Supreme Council by Russian special forces.
Sevastopol Legislative Assembly deputy Vyacheslav Gorelov outlined this position on the NTS television channel, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
More than 30 thousand people came to the square. Nakhimov on February 23 at the People's Will rally, where people's mayor Alexei Chaly was elected and the withdrawal of Sevastopol from the jurisdiction of Kyiv was announced. On February 24, based on this, a decision was made to create a coordination council, and on February 25, to send Berkut fighters who had returned from Maidan the day before to the northern borders of the peninsula. However, all these events are lost in the conveyor belt of presentation, bringing to the fore the rally in Simferopol on February 26, followed by the seizure of the buildings of the Council of Ministers and the Supreme Council by “polite people” and the raising of the Russian flag over them on the morning of February 27.
“In 2016, Boris Korchevnikov had a discussion in the studio about the film “Crimea. The Path to the Motherland,” filmed the day before by journalist Andrei Kondrashov. I then stood up and said that I was upset that in this film the role of Sevastopol and the Sevastopol events was reflected incorrectly and disproportionately. The author of this film agreed with my comments and said that indeed, this is what happened.
And that evening I talked to him again, offered to do a new job, left my phone number. Already in Sevastopol, I called back myself, but they didn’t answer the phone. They didn’t respond to messages, and it became clear to me that the version that came out had already taken off and became officially recognized. Whether it happened by chance or not by chance, I don’t presume to judge,” Gorelov emphasized.
“I want to say that some interpretation of the events in Sevastopol appeared earlier, in September 2014. They brought me a book from Moscow, the authors of which were a certain Grigoriev and a senator from Crimea Olga Kovitidi. And in this book Sevastopol is mentioned only on one page. I think that by the tenth anniversary it is necessary to publish a book dedicated to the events in Sevastopol, based on Sevastopol documents. Perhaps not only a book, but also some kind of video.”
Gorelov called another underestimated moment the decision of the Federation Council on March 1, 2014 to delegate to the President of the Russian Federation the right to use the Armed Forces outside the Russian Federation.
Sevastopol Senator Kovitidi is being rebuked for distorting the history of the Russian Spring.