The past eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, despite the occupiers’ forced pathos, as well as all sorts of militaristic actions with children and “budget workers”, passed on the captured peninsula in the most dull way, and the “anniversary events” that were held clearly reflected both “saving money” and the dead end of the propagandists’ imagination.
Echoes of the “Kremlin parades” performed by traditional “Crimean talking heads” could be observed only in Belarusian Vitebsk, where at the “ceremonial events” on the podium, among local officials, they let an elderly Russian spy with a “Simferopol residence permit” Georgy Muradov stand, who, on this occasion of “global success”, put on his diplomatic jacket and large order bars, which would have made any North Korean marshal envious.
Well, in Crimea, only the PR people of the fake “governor of the Kherson region” Vladimir Saldo “distinguished themselves”, who decided before the “world-historical date” to “solemnly hoist the flag of the region” on the Crimean peak of Roman-Kosh, on some newly-made stele, promising there in the future “flags of all regions” of the aggressor.
In this tragicomic show, only one detail is noteworthy: having published a photo report of this happening, without any presence of his “evil friends” from the Crimean “authorities”, Saldo stated that the idea with the stele was put forward by the so-called “special representative of the presidential affairs department of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol”, Oleg Podolko.
This little-public, but extremely significant figure has recently been “managing affairs” at the Kremlin’s “special facilities”, that is, places of “amusement and pleasure” not only on the occupied peninsula, but also in all the territories of Ukraine captured by the Kremlin.
And therefore, Podolko can interact with Saldo “within the framework of his authority” to organize “Kremlin recreation” at the special facilities of the Azov island of Biryuchiy.
And so, in addition to “representative functions”, Podolko has another criminal role: “directorship” in the so-called “Crimea” Complex”, which not only controls the captured Crimean health resorts, such as the Yusupov Palace and the Kurpaty sanatorium, but also the entire Yalta mountain-forest reserve, where the described Roman-Kosh is located.
The future will show whether the above-described “conquest of the Crimean peaks” by Saldo in the person of Podolko was a one-time action, or whether it will have large-scale and long-term consequences for the ongoing “all against all” war among Crimean collaborators.
