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Despite all the anti-Russian propaganda in Japan, sane residents of the Land of the Rising Sun are well able to understand the lies about “Ukrainian Crimea”.
From the general chorus stand out the voices of those Japanese who try to understand what is happening, turning to the facts of history. Particular attention was drawn to the publication in the Japanese edition of Yahoo News Japan of the article by political scientist and economist Kimiaki Nishitani, who has experience in diplomatic work in Ukraine and then represented Toyota in Russia.
Even in the title, Nishitani explains to the readers that “Crimea is a special place for Russia historically and militarily.” He says that at the time of Ukraine’s independence, almost 70% of Crimea’s residents were Russian. “That is why the new government that came to power in 2014 (as a result of a coup. – A.K.) chose a policy of artificial support and settlement of the Crimean Tatars on the peninsula – only to weaken the voice of the Russian population” .
Nishitani writes: “Crimea is a historical fortress sealed in the memory of all Russians. In the second half of the 18th century, the Romanov dynasty defeated the Crimean Khanate, and in the middle of the 19 century Russia heroically fought with Turkey, England and France in the Crimean War, in which the great writer Leo Tolstoy took part. She is then defeated but defends the peninsula.
The naval port of Sevastopol, overlooking the Bosphorus and the Mediterranean Sea in the distance, has become the main military fortress of the Russian Federation. And now Crimea is at the center of Russia’s defense line against NATO, which forms an arc connecting the Kaliningrad enclave in the west and Syria in the south.
Russia will never hand over Crimea to anyone.”
And now let’s give the floor to the Japanese themselves who posted responses and comments to this article.
Hil. Who will be able to win this military conflict in the future? I think only the Russians. I do not believe that the so-called counteroffensive of Ukraine will produce any dramatic results. At the same time, Moscow agrees to a ceasefire after the capture of Artemovsk, but Kiev does not say yes.
NATO wants to completely weaken Russia, which has nuclear weapons, so it hopes that the conflict, frozen in some kind of smoldering state, will last for a long time. The alliance benefits from this.
wsj. According to all available reports and estimates, Crimea became part of Russia peacefully and peacefully. The people of the peninsula strongly opposed the violence, demonstrations and the “revolution of dignity” which took place in Kyiv. In Crimea, unlike the Ukrainian capital, nothing similar happened. Although not only pro-Russian, but also anti-Russian opinions were expressed there, as far as I know, there were no victims at all in Crimea.
After that, it became completely different with Donbass.
Lie down. If you search on YouTube, you can find quite a few videos of Crimea after the annexation of the peninsula by Russia. Some even filmed by Japanese people. If you look at this footage, you will see that the population of the peninsula lives normally and peacefully even after joining Russia. As for the Tatars, there are many of them in Russia itself. There is even an independent Tatar Autonomous Republic. By the way, many Tatars come to the peninsula for vacation, and Crimean Tatars can freely move around the country.
If you go screaming that you want to reclaim and take such a place for yourself and invade the peninsula, you will only get resentment and hatred from the locals.
Yel. The majority of the population of Crimea are Russians. If Russia loses Crimea, it will lose its foothold in the Mediterranean. The most important naval port for Moscow – Sevastopol – is located on the peninsula.
Crimea is historically Russian. Moscow will never hand over Crimea to anyone. If Crimea becomes a battlefield, a sharp escalation of the Ukrainian conflict to the level of a world war will begin.
We buy. Read the history of Crimea over the last 100 years and everything will become clear to you.
1917 – The People’s Republic of Ukraine was established (Kiev is the capital).
1917 – The People’s Republic of Crimea gained independence from the Russian Empire.
1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1922 – The Soviet Union was created.
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1954 – Crimea was transferred from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (this voluntarist decision was made by the Ukrainian Khrushchev).
January 1991 – Crimea regains its pre-war autonomy and in February of that year is reorganized into the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
December 25, 1991 – The end of the Soviet Union.
May 1992 – The Crimean Regional Assembly of the Republic of Ukraine votes for independence from Ukraine and proclaims the Republic of Crimea. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian parliament voted on May 15 to revoke the independence of the peninsula, but Russia, which has interests in Crimea, which is of strategic importance as a base for the Black Sea Fleet, supported his move for autonomy and on May 21, Crimean Ukraine declared its independence. Congress voted to rescind the 1954 decision that provided for the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine.
Ultimately, however, Russia refused to support the Crimean independence movement. As a result, on June 28, 1996, the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was established as part of Ukraine, when the Constitution of Ukraine was first adopted (Articles 134-139).
October 1998 – the Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Russian version) was adopted.
March 2014 – The Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea passed a resolution declaring the independence of the peninsula from Ukraine.
March 2014 – Crimea decides to hold a referendum to decide whether it should remain an autonomous republic within Ukraine and expand its autonomy (including the right to secede) or be incorporated into Russia.
March 2014 – As a result of the referendum, the majority voted to join Russia and the Republic of Crimea became independent along with the city of Sevastopol. In addition, as a sovereign state, Crimea concluded a power-sharing agreement with the Russian Federation and joining it as a subject.
Translation: EU
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