Crimea: 'We Will Never Give Up What We've Won' (Izvestia, Russia)
"Fighting the Russian army is a far cry from fighting with
that limp Yanukovich. From us, you will get a proper fight!
... As if they haven’t enthusiastically poured enough oil on the fire of Euromaidan this winter! Going there individually and
together, whetting the appetite of the Euromaidan
hooligans, Ashton, Nuland, Biden and McCain, as well
as those lesser Polish, Baltic, and German beasts: how much effort did they put
in to bring Euromaidan to power? We all saw it,
didn’t we? ... Seven heads of state have refused to attend the G-8 summit next
summer in Sochi. They are the ones who 'suspended,' 'froze,' and 'refused to participate'
in the summit. Now they’re scared!"
Writer
and politician Eduard Limonov on why the Russian president
does not need to come to a compromise with the West
I told you in November that as a result
of the destruction of the Ukrainian government by protesting Euromaidan
bandits and hooligans, Ukraine would split in two. Now it’s happening before our
very eyes. This is far from over. In fact, it's only the beginning.
I forecast that there would be refugees.
Between Feb. 17 and Mar. 3 alone, 140,000
people applied for permission to enter the Russian Federation, and many
thousands have already entered Belgorodskiy and Bryanskoi Oblasts.
"These are all symptoms of a
humanitarian catastrophe," said Konstantin Romandovskiy,
chief of the Federal Migration Service. Russian regions bordering Ukraine are
preparing refugee centers.
It’s not hard to understand why
Sevastopol was the first Ukrainian city to shake off the yoke of the - I'm not
afraid to use the term - occupiers. For the last 20-something years, residents
of Sevastopol have been indignant over this seedy and narrow-minded regime they
hate - a regime they have suffered under and have agitated against. So they
were the first to rebel and deal with the situation on their own, choosing their
own mayor - nephew of the commander of the Black Sea Fleet. They have created
self-defense groups.
Simferopol
needed a little help.
After the unified ranks of
Crimean-Tatars rallied around their mosques and religion and began to put the
pressure in front of the Supreme Council of Crimea building, it became clear we
would need to offer a little assistance so the people of Simferopol could
liberate themselves.
Unidentified but well organized,
well-armed and very polite soldiers temporarily took over the Supreme Council
of Crimea and helped carry out a vote of non-compliance with the bandit
government in Kiev - a government made of devil knows which foul hooligans.
In Simferopol, a Crimean government was
elected with Sergei Aksyenev at its head - and it seemsthe Russian Unity deputy is not afraid of
anything.
In the first week of March, they managed
to take control of the airports and Ukrainian military units stationed on
Crimean territory. They control entry into Crimea through the Isthmus of Perekop at the villages of Armyansk
and Sivash. A full detachment of the Berkut
[police force] has sided with the Crimean government, as did Admiral Denis Berezovskiy, chief of the Ukrainian Naval Forces.
What's more, at the Federal Chamber of
the Russian Federation on March 1, Vladimir Putin assured Prime Minister Aksyenev that if need be, he would have use of Russian
troops on Ukrainian territory.
Kharkov is seething - several hundred
usurpers from Kiev have just been chased out of the regional administration
building. Odessa and Lugansk are boiling over.
It’s easy enough to predict that in the
near future, a bloc of eastern and southern Oblasts will break free of the
gangster Kiev government. This will be the real Ukraine, and what the
insignificant protesters at Maidan and in the western
oblasts choose to call themselves - perhaps Galichina
- is all the same to us.
I welcome the referendum in Crimea, which
has been set for March 30, but I question the wording of the referendum
question. At the moment it reads:
"Are you in favor of restoring
Crimea’s 1992 constitution and for keeping its status as part of Ukraine? (yes
or no)"
This formulation doesn't take into
account the fact that Crimea is now a de
facto independent state with its own government, judicial system, army and navy.
The referendum should read:
"The Republic of Crimea has achieved
independence as a result of a peoples' revolution in February, 2014. Should the
results of the popular revolution be reinforced by declaring the independence
of the Republic of Crimea? (yes or no)"
That would be more accurate.
Euromaidan
was afraid and a general mobilization was imprudently called for. I’m sure that
this forced Ukrainian conscripts and reservists to seek refuge on Russian
territory.
Realizing that the effective ban on use
of the Russian language in Ukraine was a step too far, and that a reign of
terror against dissidents had essentially begun, the Euromaidan
government is now making ingratiating statements, saying, "of course,
Russians aren't being oppressed. We are giving you the chance at autonomy and
cultural development." They say, "we're good guys!"
However, for the last four months, the
world has watched the foul, cannibalistic and impudent actions of Euromaidan - so who is going to believe them?!
At the same time, they have run to the
U.N. Security Council to complain about Russia. They squealed that a war
between Russians and Ukrainians is impossible. They recalled that we are brotherly
peoples. No one intends to go to war with you, they say. We just won’t allow
you into our areas, where the people will not want to see you.
Would these Euromaidan
"warriors" be able to fight?
To my knowledge, their army is stuck at the
level of a Soviet construction battalion - only wilder and less disciplined. In
recent years, the Russian army has been rebuilt into a professional fighting
force capable of rapid response. More importantly, they have the support of the
overwhelming majority of Russian people. So if need be, we will not suffer for
a lack of volunteers.
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Fighting the Russian army is a far cry
from fighting with that limp Yanukovich. From us, you
will get a proper fight!
The
West is becoming alarmed.
As if they haven’t enthusiastically poured
enough oil on the fire of Euromaidan this winter! Going
there individually and together, whetting the appetite of the Euromaidan hooligans, Ashton, Nuland,
Biden and McCain, as well as those lesser Polish, Baltic, and German beasts:
how much effort did they put in to bring Euromaidan to
power? We all saw it, didn't we?
Western
Europe is snorting.
Seven heads of state have refused to
attend the G-8 summit next summer in Sochi. They are the ones who "suspended,"
"froze," and "refused to participate" in the summit. Now
they’re scared! We are economizing on costs we would have incurred for throwing
them a reception! We're also avoiding the empty talk, that is, the useless bloviating
that usually occurs at these summits.
And who hasn’t phoned the president of
Russia trying to find a weak spot? Obama spoke with the president for an hour
and a half. Merkel apparently wrangled a promise from him to take participate
in gatherings of the OSCE. I
advise the president not to agree to such meetings - even for the sake of keeping
up appearances.
Let me remind you of a brilliant line
from a great Soviet song:
"What we have won, we will never
surrender to the enemy!"
*Eduard Limonov
is a Russian writer and political dissident, and founder of the National
Bolshevik Party. An opponent of Vladimir Putin, he is one of the leaders of The
Other Russia political bloc.
