Leonid Grach died in Crimea
18 October 18:51
In the Russian-occupied Crimea, Leonid Grach, the former chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the most famous Crimean communist who supported the occupation of the peninsula by Russia, died on October 17. He was 77 years old.
This was reported by Crimea. Realii, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
Grach was a key figure in Crimean politics: from 2011 to 2012 he headed the Communist Party of Workers and Peasants, in 2013 he founded the Communist Marxist-Leninist Party of Ukraine, and since 2014 he became the first secretary of the Crimean branch of the Communists of Russia party.
In February 2014, Grach stated that Crimea would remain part of Ukraine, but soon supported the illegal “referendum” of March 16, 2014, organized by Russia. His candidacy was proposed for the position of “head” of the so-called “Republic of Crimea”.
Leonid Grach was called one of the main initiators and organizers of the 1991 referendum in Crimea. He spoke at the session of the Crimean Regional Council on November 12, 1990 with the idea of holding a vote on autonomy.
The Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Refat Chubarov, reacted sharply to Grach’s death.
“Well, Leonid Grach went to his friend Iosif Kobzon. I will limit myself to the words that we say when the deceased is not worthy of a kind word: “Ateşi bol olsun” (Let him burn in hell),” he said.
