Union of common fate

Why do Crimean Tatars want to stay with Ukraine

A rally of Crimean Tatars with a demand to return the lands selected after deportation. Alushta, April 13, 2005

They came themselves, they did not have to be called. At the first anti -war rally in December 1994, when the tanks went across the border of Chechnya, we saw what the Maidan saw: a blue banner with a gold tamga. The flag of the Crimean Tatars. One deported people supported another.

When I first got into the Crimea, and this was in 1961, they were not there, but half of the tourist facilities reminded them. The water oozed like a tear, a rose in the Bakhchisarai fountain, the guides, looking around, spoke about their medieval history in the city of Old Crimea. But no one dared to talk about where the indigenous population of this land had gone. As in the stories of Ray Bradbury from Martian Chronicle: Mars without Martian.

Vasily Aksenov in his novel “Island of Crimea” was not the first to invented by the Unified People of Crimea, “Yaki”. This was the first to propose after the February Revolution the leader of the Provisional Crimean Executive Committee, Noman Chelebijikhan: independence for Crimea and equal rights for all representatives of its single people: Crimean. He even said that the peoples of Crimea are a bouquet of flowers, and each flower is beautiful in its own way. The Bolsheviks shot him in 1918. Red terror in Crimea was especially merciless.

The terrible deportation of 1944, which destroyed the lives of the 64% of the Crimean Tatar people, ended with a return later than all other repressed peoples: Soviet power was afraid of the indomitability of these people. What is one Mustafa Dzhemilev, a dissident who survived six political processes, who was driven from prison for 15 years to exile and back to prison, an irreconcilable anti -Soviet who kept a hunger strike with painful feeding through a probe for 10 months! The unchanging leader of the people, the Ukrainian deputy, a participant in the Orange Revolution and a supporter of the Maidan.

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Crimean Tatars did not allow the monument in Livadia: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin are sitting in a row and speak with a sink

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When in 1991 the unfinished imperialists first started talking about whether Ukraine “our” Crimea from Ukraine, Dzhemilev, on behalf of Millia -Gydzhlis, said that the Crimean Tatars want to stay with Ukraine, a comrade in the fight and fate, and not with Russia, which still did not even apologize before them. It was not a referendum, but it sounded weighty. Moreover, the rash words of Yeltsin, that if Ukraine will behave badly, they will take the Crimea from her, only this union of common fate was soldered even more.

The Crimean Tatars did not allow Livadia a monument in Livadia to the 60th anniversary of the Yalta Conference: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin sit in a row and speak with a way. They did not even allow a group without Stalin, with an empty chair. They said that it would look like if Stalin left for a short while and now return. Some member of the Milli-Dihlis then had an administrative position in the nearest town. So he stated that he would personally lay explosives under the sculpture. And they abandoned this idea.

General Peter Grigoryevich Grigorenko, a hero of the war, a dissident, the intercessor of the Crimean Tatars joined the union of common fate. For them, in the 70s he was tormented in Tashkent and Chernyakhov’s special tours and almost lost his vision.

There are both citizens of Belarus and citizens of Russia in the heavenly hundred Maidan.

In the novel “Island of Crimea”, Aksyonov invested the words of protest and struggle after the beginning of the Soviet invasion of the mouth of the Crimean Tatar Mustafa Ahmed-Girey: “You used the Golden Horde for 300 years, and you only ... You had Stalin for 40 years, and you called it the father of the peoples. Out! I'm a Tatar! Wait for Gazavat. "

It seems that the only task of the Crimean Anschlus is to install a new sculpture in Livadia: Stalin sits with a tube, and on the sides - two empty chairs. Great Britain and the United States left and carried away hope, freedom, progress and civilization. Left and will not return.

Photo: Alexey Pavlishak/ITAR-TASS