Several steps to return Crimea
By the first anniversary of the return of Crimea into Russia Poroshenko uttered yet another portion of fantasy on the subject of its return.
There are several steps that we have to take to return Crimea.
The first step - human rights. We must protect each Ukrainian. This is a priority, which I indicated for all agencies.
Second - the legal protection of property in Crimea - state and corporate.
Third - we must take all weapons that remained in Crimea.
Fourth - we must fortify the border with Crimea so that sabotage/reconnaissance groups don't pass through it.
And the most important - we must show that life is better on this side of the border. The enlightenment is already coming. Crimea is stuffed with FSB operatives. The model of life there is quite different now, not the one to which people got used to after several decades under the conditions of democracy.
http://rbctv.rbc.ru/archive/main_news/text/562949994279306.shtml (in Russian) - link
Quite amusing points, considering that the blockade of Crimea hits common residents of Crimea among others, among whom there are Ukrainians.
Naturally they are very "thankful" to the former country of their residence for the fact that they may lack some goods or that there is a lack of water for agriculture.
As practice of even a partial nationalization in Crimea and Sevastopol (where a factory was taken away from Poroshenko) showed, Crimea ain't doing much in the area of the protection of property.
Regarding weapons, the majority of junk was returned back in the spring-summer of 2014, after which the flow terminated due to the escalation of the war.
And it is absolutely not clear how the presence or absence of transfer of say old APC or helicopters will help to return Crimea.
The thesis about the border is even funnier, because fortifying the border sort of suggests that Crimea ain't coming back, not speaking about the fact that there was no and there is no significant SRG activity on the territory of the Kherson region; this is just an excuse with which they cover provocations associated with the blockade of Crimea and the very same mining of bridges (due to a huge desire to bring Crimea back, of course).
And the last thesis is altogether laughable, considering that even more serious economic crisis is developing in Ukraine compared to Russia, not speaking of the fact that there is a fascist regime in power there and that there is ongoing civil war. I don't even know what needs to happen in Crimea in order for the situation to the north of Chongar and Perekop to appear "better".
Well, as for the enlightenment, then it already happened in Crimea by democratic means, and it turns one year soon. Poroshenko could get acquainted with this choice personally approximately a year ago, when regular Crimeans democratically and substantially explained to him that now the model of life in Crimea will be different.
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