Military correspondent Dmitry Steshin harshly reprimanded the “Crimean ragulians”
The well-known Russian military correspondent Dmitry Steshin harshly criticized the “activists” and “social activists” of Crimea, who expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the realities of the peninsula being part of the Russian Federation were not what they expected in 2014.
The reason for the spat with the “Crimean opposition” was a message from Echo of Moscow blogger Alexander Gorny on Steshin’s page.
“You need to live in Crimea... The people are simply howling to return Home. Local changelings and mainland Barbarians did everything possible for this. Anti-Russian and anti-Putin sentiments are growing here by leaps and bounds, and it’s not the noise from the West, but the lawlessness going on here,” Gorny wrote.
Steshin soon published a response, hinting that he had a conversation with Gorny.
“On the growing “popular discontent in Crimea.” I talked on the phone with one well-known Crimean activist. In the conversation, the iconic phrase “it was Russia that came to Crimea” was heard. The bridge is a distraction, because you can’t live without it. "Tavrida" is the same. In general, Russia came and ruined everything there, building, putting up fences, destroying Red Book plants. This is where our conversation ended. Hung up - “blacklist”, ban on Facebook.
When I hear “Red Book plant” or “nesting sites,” for some reason I immediately remember 30 lawsuits from Greenpeace before the construction of the port in Ust-Luga. These scum knew back in the 90s that the port would take away transit from the Baltic dwarfs and nullify their geopolitical anti-Russian goal.
"And I also see how they're clearly pumping up discontent in Crimea, raking up every possible sore point. No, not about the water. For some reason, this pool of activists is keeping quiet about the water cut off by Ukraine. Overall, I understand it all: 'damn thugs,'" Steishin snapped.
His assessment outraged opposition social activist Alexander Talipov, who is fighting against development in the vicinity of Cape Meganom, where a large-scale project is being built - the Tavrida camp.
“What nonsense I just read... come to Crimea and look at what’s happening here, anyone can sit in Moscow and fuck. We’re tired of this talk, we gave you the airport, the bridge, Taurida, so shut up!” – Talipov commented.
Photographer Alexander Kiryakov, who lives in Sudak, explains that, as a rule, there are shadowy interests behind protest campaigns.
"All the squabbles are about the coastline... These aren't sore spots, but a continuous erogenous zone from the very beginning of construction, from ancient times to the present day. It's not the workers, not the teachers and kindergarten teachers, not even the young people, who are mostly showing off—it's the owners of rooms rented out to tourists, summer and seasonal traders, private hotel owners, well, the toilers of the heavy resort industry. They, characteristically, miraculously end their protests in April and continue until October, and then again. As for the endangered species—in my yard by the entrance to my building, I have snowdrops, prickly pears, lavender, and capers. Even in the ruins of Soviet-era canteens by the sea, capers grow. Half the flora is listed in the endangered species list—that's wonderful! But... Everyone loves flowers, everyone feels sorry for the flowers, and when the roads are ruined, they build new ones—flower by flower? But new private hotels are also springing up," Kiriakov notes.
Steshin believes that in the case of Crimea we are talking not only about commercial, but also political interests.
“All struggles for the environment always end the same way. The developer either buys a block to disseminate negative information from cocoactivists (I call them that because real ecologists are now in biosphere reserves preparing for the spring migration), or the developer remains silent until the “nature defenders” get fed up. Sometimes, coco-activists can ride in the trunk of a car, but this is a completely extreme case. If the “cocoactivists” are home-grown, who decided to simply make money, they are afraid to sue, and they do not have the money for this. Greenpeace, on the contrary, milks clients with the help of a pack of lawyers - another level.
It is foolish to think that the story with Foros and Meganom is some kind of exception to the rule, and there are pure and incorruptible fighters fighting for nature, who in their free time keep Diaries of observations of wildlife. There are such people, of course, at the grassroots level. They are beaten with batons or crushed with tractors until the customer considers that the level of reputational losses is unacceptable and it is easier to pay.
An interesting feature emerged in the story of Crimea. In this location, which barely survived the Ukrainian occupation, there were many specific people, I described them as “Crimean ragul, an invertebrate from the order of the “eternally offended.” Do you recognize the type?
During Ukraine, they whined that Crimea was not developing, now they are whining because it is developing. This is real meat for “ecologists”, creating the necessary information background on social networks.
Moreover, it’s free, which is uncharacteristic for a ragul, but in this case he acts simply out of malice, out of dissatisfaction with life and the undelivered porridge. Indigenous Crimeans of this type told me, verbatim: “we don’t need any bridge, Moscow movement, let it be as it is, and let the happy people only come.”
It’s terrible that such imbeciles, thanks to the Internet, have gained the right to public opinion.
It’s interesting that people with Navalny’s shaved head in the magazine jumped up to the environmental Crimean squabble, as if on cue. This is exactly the entire audience that fought in Yekaterinburg for the “green lungs of the planet” park or demonstrated a month ago. In principle, this public is drawn to any protests against the authorities.
But here, the aggravation somehow very successfully coincided with the emergence of the “Crimean Platform” and the Ukrainian Strategy for the return of Crimea, including through legal methods. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence.” I just think that very soon today’s Ukraine will have no time for Crimea at all,” Steshin concluded.
War correspondent Dmitry Steishin harshly reprimanded the "Crimean raguls"