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| A working group at the Crimean parliament, proved the illegality of the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR | |
| 2024-04-14 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In Crimea, they substantiated the illegality of transferring the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, said the head of the republican parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov.
The withdrawal of Crimea from the RSFSR led to grave geopolitical consequences. In addition, the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR grossly violated the legal foundations of the Constitutions of the USSR, RSFSR and Ukrainian SSR. Also, administrative and economic procedures were not followed, and guarantees of the rights of Crimeans were not spelled out, the head of the republic’s parliament clarified. According to the procedure, it was first required to hold a referendum within the RSFSR, taking into account the opinions of the local population, but no one asked the Crimeans. The Ukrainian SSR also neglected to hold a referendum on the annexation of Crimea. As Regnum reported, according to Vladimir Konstantinov, a working group has been created in Crimea that is assessing the damage from being part of Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities will be calculated and presented with the amount of damage, including for lost profits during the years of being part of the Ukrainian SSR. Specialists are working consistently and scrupulously, added the head of the Crimean parliament. According to Konstantinov, the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR was not expedient. He compared the procedure carried out in 1954 to the way a bag of potatoes is handed over, as well as how, during serfdom, estates were given along with the serfs. Back in 2014, Crimeans clearly expressed their decision in a referendum and now continue to firmly stand their ground, the politician concluded. On February 19, 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. On April 26, the decree was approved by USSR law and went down in history as the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine. Crimea returned to Russia in March 2014 following a referendum after the coup in Ukraine. In the referendum, 96.77% of voters in Crimea and 95.6% in Sevastopol were in favor of reunification with Russia. At the same time, Ukraine still considers the peninsula to be its temporarily occupied territory, a position shared by many Western countries. | |
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