“Crimea has never stopped feeling Russian. Residents of the peninsula did not even remember Khrushchev’s decree until Ukrainization began persistently knocking on their doors. We fought against this evil with all our might, and of course, Russia did not leave us aside. And at the most important moment of 2014, Russia returned Crimea to its native harbor,” the deputy noted.
The parliamentarian explained that he sees no point in discussing or canceling any decisions of “not the most popular leaders.”
“Crimea is already Russian, and everyone knows it, and no one doubts it anymore. Whether Khrushchev’s decree will be repealed is absolutely unimportant, neither for the residents nor for the surrounding world. As for Ukraine, it is actively decommunizing. So, in theory, Khrushchev’s decree should have been torn up in Kyiv and thrown into the wind,” concluded RT’s interlocutor.
Earlier, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Konstantin Zatulin, made a proposal to cancel the decision to transfer Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR and recognize it as illegal.
On June 20, 2023, a working group in the Crimean parliament came to the conclusion that there was not a single reason for transferring the peninsula from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954.
The Kremlin has repeatedly emphasized that Crimea is an integral part of Russia and claims to Russian territory will receive a proper response.
Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which the majority of residents of the peninsula supported reunification with Russia.