Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Do Russians think that Crimea is Russian?" video.

  1. It is important to understand here that a coup d'etat took place in Ukraine in 2014, and according to the Russian government, the Ukrainian government that was before the coup is legitimate. And the Kremlin considers the separatists in Eastern Ukraine to be the successors of this power. So, in fact, Russia did not violate anything
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  2. The regions of the south-east of Ukraine are inhabited by Russian people. In Crimea in 2014, 60% of the population was Russian. When our army began to seize the Crimea, the local people rejoiced and greeted our soldiers as liberators. People in Crimea have been waiting for 23 years for the moment when they will return home to Russia. In eastern Ukraine, 50% of the population is Russian and 50% Ukrainian. In the south of Ukraine, 30-40% of the population are Russians. Why did this war even start and why did we decide in 2014 to regain Crimea? You see, there was a coup d'état in Ukraine and the pro-Russian government was overthrown by pro-Western and anti-Russian politicians. Therefore, we were forced, we simply had no choice but to protect the Russian people in Crimea from the anti-Russian revolutionaries who had seized power in Kyiv. Russian people, citizens of Ukraine, went out in 2014 to protest against that coup d'etat and the overthrow of the pro-Russian president. By taking Crimea, we defended their right to self-determination. And the Ukrainian army agreed to voluntarily leave the Crimea. Ukrainian officers shook hands with our officers, 20 thousand Ukrainian soldiers left the Crimea without a fight. Because they knew that Crimea is Russian territory.
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  3.  @vaataja  In Crimea in 2014 and until 2014, 60% of the population were Russians, 24% Tatars and 16% Ukrainians. Russians in Crimea until 2014 were 60% of the population, and only 16% of Ukrainians. Crimea is an absolutely Russian territory, where the majority of the population is Russian, and Ukrainians are a minority of the population. It's just that Crimea, by mistake of the Soviet government, became part of Ukraine in 1954. But this is Russian territory. And in 2014, this Russian territory returned to its native harbor with the full support of the local population. And the Ukrainian army left the Crimea without a fight, giving it to our troops, which again proves that this is Russian territory. Because if it was Ukrainian land, the Ukrainians would not have given it away without firing a shot.
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  4.  @Nilme_Achanduine  What other prison? In Russia, practically no one is persecuted under articles that restrict freedom of speech. We do not have mass repressions. They can only detain some popular person, and then they give them time to leave the country and make hints. For example, Ilya Yashin, a liberal pro-Western politician, he has one and a half million subscribers on youtube. He was arrested by the police in June of this year. For more than three months since February 24, he calmly spread Western propaganda to the millions of people, and our police wanted him to simply leave Russia. But he did not want to leave Russia like all the other liberal traitors, he, like Navalny, proved that he was a patriot who did not leave the country, but went to prison.
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  5.  @Nilme_Achanduine  And yes, do not forget that during the war, freedom of speech is unacceptable. Otherwise, enemy propaganda will fool people's brains. In any country, in any society, even the most democratic, freedom of speech is limited during the war. It is the same in Ukraine now - in Ukraine it is now impossible to express a pro-Russian position, and in Ukraine there are also criminal and administrative articles for such rhetoric. So your claim is completely incomprehensible to me. Putin is doing everything right, the enemies of society should not have freedom of speech.
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