We Have Returned HomeFrom an article at Beorn's Beehive that celebrated the 5th anniversary...Looking back at 2014, when this revival started, I found my copy of "Argumenty i Fakty" from the 18th of March 2014, which I keep as a valuable memento ...
...– akin to how our grandfathers would have kept newspapers announcing the end of WWII. Here we see the facsimile of its front page.The editorial on this page reads…“WE HAVE RETURNED HOME”Crimea chose #Russia over the course of the last weekend – 96.77% of all those who took part in the referendum voted “for”. And let the West shout that this referendum is illegal – nothing can call into question the most, perhaps, honest choice of the people in recent years. “We came home after long hard ye...
...ars of wandering,” – the Crimeans told the “AiF” journalist. They’ve really been waiting for this moment for decades. The most difficult thing was the last 23 years, after the collapse of the USSR. All these years #Crimea, which did not return to Russia, did not become #Ukraine either. Ukraine, which tried to force millions of Russians in this country to speak and even to think in Ukrainian language. Which, for the sake of nationalists, poured dirt over the sacred — the memory of those who...
... vanished off the radars. A few months later another Malaysian Boeing would be shot down by Ukraine over Donbass…The same AiF edition had an article pondering the future of Crimea. I will translate the article in full below, as it is an interesting retrospective view on what was expected by the population and what was achieved…Returning Home. Crimeans are discussing how exactly the ascension to Russia will take placeRead on at Beorn's Beehive.@BeornAndTheShieldmaidenBoost
... lay down here in the Great Patriotic War, protecting the native land. Which, after #Maidan grabbed the power, unambiguously defined the main enemy – Russians – and clearly showed how it will finish off this enemy. And thus they listed almost the entire Crimea as their enemy. And Crimea in response, remembering the right to make a choice, chose to return home. Into Russia.It is interesting to note that on page 2 there is an article wondering of the whereabouts of the Malaysian Boeing which...