Leonid Grach died in Crimea
18 October 18:51
Leonid Grach has died. He was a communist, former chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea and a member of the Ukrainian parliament.
In the news, he is rightly labeled a collaborator. Yes, he did – he supported the Russian pseudo-referendum and rejoiced in its results.
In 2016, Glavkom recorded him as a collaborator. In fact, this is one of his last interviews in the Ukrainian media space. In the third year of the occupation of Crimea, we were recording reality. And, surprisingly, Grach had already realized what Crimea and the Crimeans were getting themselves into. But it was too late..
A few quotes about the Crimean reality and the “new family” from the interview conducted by Pavel Vujets.
- “We are now experiencing the period of ’37: when you will be ‘laid’ in one moment and immediately sent to the logging site.”
“(Russians) don’t want to trust the Crimean staff… They killed the staff that was there two or three years ago.” - “The process of replacing personnel is accompanied by the redistribution of loot – land, real estate, etc.”
- “The parasitic corruption system of the Russian Federation is the same everywhere.”
- “There is no Crimean elite – it has been crushed, bought off and gone ‘for free’.
- “Someone from Siberia has arrived and thinks that he will wave a club and those Crimeans will not go anywhere.”
- “Sevastopol residents are tearing their shirts on their chests…they want more respect than they have today”
- “The main tourists from Russia are poor – they have enough money only for cheap accommodation and sandwiches. As for the old days, when everyone was out and about and restaurants were full, unfortunately, this is not the case anymore…”
- “The Crimeans voted in the referendum, but they didn’t take into account one thing: they think they have returned to the Soviet Union, but in fact they have returned to Russia, which is even more corrupt than Ukraine. And now that the Crimeans have experienced everything, they don’t want it anymore…”
“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 good word: Ateşi bol olsun (Let him burn in hell),” wrote Refat Chubarov, leader of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people and former MP of Ukraine.
We join..
