In a situation where the “new reality” of the summer period for the occupied Crimea is already becoming obvious to everyone, the aggressor’s propaganda began to focus on supposedly “unprecedented discounts and opportunities.”
For example, on March 28, a “soothing” comment was made by “tourism expert” Lyudmila Babiy about supposedly “good discounts on accommodation” and “unloaded beaches” of the occupied peninsula.
However, the Crimean collaborators themselves give a much more “optimistic” forecast. Thus, the agent of the aggressor’s punishers, “oppositional Crimean blogger” Alexander Gorny states that “March has not yet ended, and representatives of the Crimean tourism industry are counting the losses of the new season,” because “not everyone can work on social programs, stuffing boarding houses with pensioners.”
“The owners of taverns and tents, taxi drivers and guides, agricultural producers and just businessmen, whose products are consumed by a mass tourist, including beer, water and ice cream, they will go bankrupt, and the number of jobs will be reduced,” the collaborator laments, stating that “the off-season was bad, traffic definitely fell, and domestic tourism will never be the driver of the Crimean tourism industry.”
However, such “self-revelations” from Gorny can be heard not from “love for the truth”: he, as a “talking head”, voiced unlawful “requests to the top”, within which collaborators like him frivolously expect to “improve the situation” and also get to “scatter budget billions”.
Their main criminal wishes, voiced by Gorny, come down to “reducing the inspection time” at the “Crimean Bridge” and “subsidizing railway tickets”.
However, here the collaborators are not good with formal logic: if a certain Russian “tourist” decides to travel by car for two days to the occupied Crimea, then a couple of hours in front of the illegal “bridge” will already be a “trifle” for him.
And as for the “Crimean trains”, Gorny himself admits that half of their passengers do not reach the occupied Crimea from Russia and “go to Rostov”, so Gorny demands “charter trains” to combat this phenomenon.
The situation with such transportations, when the same passengers who did not reach Crimea, are obviously “driven into tourist statistics” by the Russian occupiers, is quite plausible.
After all, illegal “Crimean trains” do not appear out of nowhere, the aggressor removes them from the domestic passenger transportation market, where demand is chronically higher than supply, and therefore tickets for “Crimean trains” are sold out on “peak days” – but not at the station of the occupied peninsula.
However, another “cry from the soul” of Gorny’s collaborator is interesting, who called on the criminal “Crimean officials” to stop “nightmare mainland tourists with their brutal stories from the zone” of hostilities.
Here, probably, that collaborator did not realize that when talking about the criminal “sniper schools”, “Aksenovites”, “military companies”, the criminal Crimean “leadership” thinks least of all about “tourism”, because they understand perfectly well that there will be no “season”, but they struggle the favor of the Kremlin in Russian exile, on which the clans of the criminal “Crimean authorities” so frivolously rely after the de-occupation, and try “to deserve it”.
