Tråden om Krimhalvön

"We strive to create a solid land area with autonomy with a perspective in the future not for the concentration of world Jewry, but in order to settle the three million Jews from the USSR on this land". The situation in Crimea immediately escalated: Crimean Tatars and Germans became alarmed.

In contrast to the project of resettlement of Jews, the Crimean Tatar Communists came up with the idea of creating in the North of Crimea of a German Autonomous Republic.

"They demand land for resettlement to Crimea of 8,000 Jewish households, but ...our inventory does not even satisfy our internal needs [this could justify Crimean Tatar deportation, see more later - KR], and therefore, the Crimean authorities has found it impossible to satisfy these demands.

[1953] Also Stalin was planning to deport the Jews from the major cities of the country, in particular from Moscow. Minister Furtseva already made lists. But suddenly - Stalin mysteriously dies.

At the same time the GPU was preparing a closed "process 63": thus the elites of Tatar ethnic intelligentsia were exiled to Solovki. Protests among the Crimean Germans were brutally suppressed, but about a thousand of them managed to leave the USSR.

The development of the loan agreement between the "Joint" and the government of the USSR had begun, which was signed on February 19, 1929. According to the contract, "Joint" allocated 900 thousand dollars a year for 10 years at 5% annual interest.

Debt repayment was to begin in 1945 and be completed in 1954 (when the transfer of Crimea from Russia to Ukraine was accomplished by Nikita Khrushev!).

Thus the largest financial and political families in America - Rockefeller, Marshall, Warburg, Roosevelt, Hoover, and others became the holders of the shares of land in Crimea.

The resettlement of the Jews coincided with the "dispossession" and forced deportation of Crimean peasants.

[...] by March 26, 1930, 16 thousand people were "dispossessed" and identified for deportation, and the total number of deported reached 25-30 thousand.

industrial and financial circles and American cultural elites, leaders of Jewish organizations were deeply interested in the provision of Crimea to not only the Soviet Jews, but to the entire diaspora, therefore, the establishment of a Jewish Republic in Crimea looked like quite a good idea. In the long run it was beneficial to the USA, including for the implementation of their military-strategic and geopolitical objectives.

[1944] The Americans offered to invest $10 billion into the Crimean economy, and also to create a Republic, where Jews from all over the world could resettle.

[1945] The USSR began to actively support the establishment of Israel on the territory of Palestine.

[Under the pressure from the Americans, On May 11, 1944, Stalin signed the order to deport Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan.

A month later, on June 6, 1944, the Americans opened the second front! - KR]

The entire possibility of the second front for the Americans depended on the "Crimean project".

In the end, Crimea was "hidden" from the long arms of American bankers in Ukraine in 1954. Vladimir Putin, who was 2 years old at the time, will complete the Crimean affair 60 years later.

Since reunification with Russia Crimea's economy has not only overcome all obstacles but is booming with dramatic increases in living standards and quality of life.

Russia's investments in the Crimean economy have already repaid themselves and are contributing substantially to Russia's balance of payments.

Crimea suffered in 2014 and 2015 from seemingly runaway inflation totalling 70.1% for the two years.

This would be very bad news if not for the fact that at the same time nominal salaries rose by 112%, thus the real salaries rose by some 40%.

The net result is then that the Crimean workers gained 50% over their Ukrainian peers.

Industrial production grew by 12.5% on the year in 2015, and with a whopping 25% in December year-on-year.

The extraordinary positive dynamics continued in 2016 with a record gain of 32.2% for January-February.

The construction industry also reported impressive results with a value growth of 73.9% after considering the effects of inflation, with completion of 249 thousand square meters of new housing.

Already in the difficult transition year of 2014, the proceeds from the tourist industry doubled to a value of about $1.5 billion from the level of the Ukrainian years of $700 million.

Other government investments include reconstruction and modernization of hospitals, public buildings and public places; water supplies; new ambulances, fire tracks, urban transport vehicles, etc.

Crimeans will hardly pine for the bad old Ukrainian days when the central government invested annually about $120 million in the economy, as reported by the ousted former prime minister Nikolay Azarov.