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hello. kirill vyshinsky is with you, and this program is a typical novorossiya, our name says it all, we are talking about the territory that has returned to its historical roots about novorossiya with the help of a careful look at history. we will try to reveal the originality of her day present to find both typical features and recognizable signs of the past. and that's what we'll talk about today. strategic support on the southern flank 240 years of the history of the russian crimea crimea and novorossiya as a factor of russian foreign policy a conversation with a program expert not

for the sake of exploits, but for the sake of how the homeland begins for centuries, the peninsula played a strategic role for each state in one way or another that possessed it the greeks made chersonesus the modern sevastopol the main outpost. in the northern black sea region, the byzantines used crimea to influence eastern europe; later , the ottoman empire used the crimean khanate to influence moscow and the commonwealth, playing on the contradictions of these largest european states until 1783 . turkey considered the black sea to be its internal lake, but after

the peninsula became part of the russian empire , russia is already claiming dominance in this region. new russia became a serious breakthrough for russia to the south, even after 240 years - this is a strategic line, the black sea is perfectly visible - this is access to a large geopolitical space to the caucasus and the balkans the mediterranean sea to the countries of the middle east, according to most historians, access to the south seas was much more important for russia than to the baltic here opened up other expanses and prospects ; the first thing that ordered the creation of catherine in the crimea was the black sea fleet and the sea harbor in sevastopol, the weakening ottoman empire in the xix century could no longer hold back the russian onslaught in the region. this seriously worried britain and france, the intervention was inevitable and ended with the crimean war.

today, as from a century ago, crimea is still the main bastion of the country's security on the southern flank, unique in its military-strategic position, the one who owns the crimea controls the entire black sea with all its coasts, the fleet is able to get to any point in the water area in the shortest possible time to intercept any military - naval expedition of the enemy to the southern coast of russia and the appearance of hypersonic missile systems only strengthened the military significance of crimea with its territory today. you can control the balkans, transcaucasia, the middle east and the entire eastern middle-earth. no matter what they say in the west today, crimea is historical and rightfully belongs to russia, one can argue about how true its assessment is as unsinkable russian aircraft carrier in the black sea, nevertheless, the peninsula has been and remains

a key link in ensuring russia's national security in this region . 2023, the largest maneuver of the north atlantic alliance coincides with the start of a counter-offensive into the entire german venue, where, due to exercises for civil air traffic , a 37-kilometer air corridor for central europe with its airliner-congested skies is specially closed due to exercises. in the event of an unprecedented air offensive operation on the territory of donbass and crimea , control over these territories is being practiced during maneuvers, the long-held dream of the nato alliance was preparing and conducting an appropriate event in order to make crimea e their territory. not in the sense of the state, of course, but in terms of control in

sevastopol, the transfer of several uh real estate objects was already being prepared in order for them to start working here. uh, american intelligence agencies and general tasks was. oust the black sea fleet and sevastopol from this fact that it was literally a few days, if not hours, when the events of february march e 2014 took place, then in 2012 russia unexpectedly confused all the cards crimea returned to the russian federation following the results a popular referendum, but the collective west did not like the result of such a democratic will from the phenomenon, because it ruined the consistent plan that was patiently put into practice for the last three decades after the collapse of the ussr, the creation of a belt of unfriendly states and military bases

around a potential adversary, that is, russia, the so-called anaconda method first tested in the united states back in the year of the civil war between north and south and which became the basis of the modern anglo-saxon geopolitical strategy, the naval forces, united the states of america, having great power, conducting the expansion somewhere against the continents. in this case, there is eurasia spent this month of the anacondas by creating military bases of some other power points, so that it all compresses this territory of the enemy. decided his ability to make trade economic transactions. reduced his military capabilities, if we look at the transverse situation, we will see that this method of anaconda is embodied in reality. and the fact that crimea returned to russia is the most important fact, which, as a system, destroys , these chains roar, but this chain, link by link , continues to build an extra confirmation of this finland officially, which joined nato in april. because of this, the line of our contact with this block increased by 1,200 km. and of course, the longtime

alliance members estonia latvia and lithuania, which are already talking about blocking the gulf of finland and arranging logistics problems between st. petersburg and kaliningrad, poland, which is trying to revive its concept between the sea and the age-old long ago, in fact, a cordon sanitaire from the baltic to the black sea between russia and its most important partner germany, finally , turkey, which, with all the current capacity of the treaty, still remains a member of nato and , as history shows , it is sometimes difficult for a turk to maintain constructive relations with russia due to the constant pressure of the west there a great success, er in this region. e russia had an enker from the kilisian treaty with turkey, this is 1.000. uh, 830, i think year three or thirty-four. uh, when two powers without a war, and there were only 2 of them black sea turkey and russia agreed on mutual control directed and so on

. what do you think england and france did not recognize a single pound of goods that did not pass through these straits and are located thousands of miles away, this agreement was not recognized by this coast. and that's when the movement began. this is already my opinion of the crimean war, at first turkey , which, in accordance with the 1936 matrio convention of the year, possesses sovereignty and dardanes, closed the straits from the black mediterranean sea for military ships, but for russia they have a powerful naval base in the crimea this is more a plus than a minus of our ships on alert, but nato. the way here is now booked in fact, this is the deepest part of the oceans that has gone into the land. so the black sea straits. this is one of them from the black sea , access to the world ocean, and the passage in them is a dead end to the coasts of the black sea powers, so any change in the balance of power in

this e creates a threat to the military security of the black sea powers. the possession of crimea is a key element of security in southern russia, but not only full-fledged naval power in this region is also control over the waters of the eastern mediterranean and regions such as the balkans and the middle east. well, and so from practice. eh, ship. came out in the morning the next day. he is happy in a day, he is already in the mediterranean sea, in a day two. it is already in the eastern mediterranean sea in tartus, which is now known to the whole world. it’s not that the ships will go 2-3 weeks or from the baltic in order to reach these points, but the eastern mediterranean sea of ​​​​the middle east is the political kitchen of the world on the pro already almost 70 l if you like, under the belly, the heartland, or you will get to russia russia, and here one point is very important that, uh

, the geopolitical borders of a country or civilization must be protected no less, thoroughly than the borders of the real and in this sense alternatives to sevastopol. no in terms of deep water in relief according to the wind rose along the length of the water area - this is an ideal basing site that allows ships of large displacement to enter and leave the bay in the most convenient direct course, i must say that, uh, from the moment crimea became russian capabilities to ensure our security in the south of russia , we have significantly increased, there is now sufficient to solve the problem of the amur fleet in ukrainian times. we only had one submarine now there are seven. we have new frigates there, new corvettes. not to mention the fact that crimea is the crossroads of civilization and cultures at all times, the most important center in terms of logistics, by the way, a hypothetical project, the so-called road of the forty-fifth

parallel from great britain to india to its time also ran through the peninsula, but it remained on paper maps in the leather-covered offices of british officials. and when they say crimea is ours, it means that our crimea is, after all, not for that russian sailors , heroically held the first and second defenses of sevastopol in order to later ask it, as they did in their time in belovezhskaya pushcha anna efimova valery savelyev anastasia popova typical novorossiya . on the historical and strategic significance of crimea and whether it will change in the near future, we will talk with our permanent expert historian and political scientist rosistam, ishchenko rostislav good afternoon. good afternoon rostislav in the 18th century, when did catherine get to the crimea after a long journey?

eh, then potemkin showed her first of all the oktyabrskaya bay, struck sevastopol and the fleet today, in the new geopolitical conditions , the meaning of crimea will somehow change, it will be modified by the radiation of sevastopol to control the black sea for strategic control in general over the southern flank of the russian empire of the rural union, modern russia has always was realized is realized and will be realized from the crimea you can control not only the middle east hid you can control the entire european part of russia and up to moscow , including places. copying the fleet and if the enemy controls the crimea, then you can say goodbye to the fleet on the black sea, they will shoot him before he actually leaves his bases, how vulnerable is crimea and its communications with russia today, how can this affect the role of the peninsula during the war? everything is relatively vulnerable, that is, uh, cut these communications or

to cut them for a long time ukraine is now not in a position to jeopardize traffic along them. well, she has already delivered it, because , in principle, ukrainian missile systems are finishing off there. ukrainian holes operate there. it is clear that this does not interrupt the connection of crimea with russia through the crimean bridge population, but again, there is a certain vulnerability. it is not strategic, that is, well, there is a certain psychological pressure, in addition, until then ha, the border of russia has not been pushed deep into modern ukrainian, in principle south russian territories on this border may turn out to be a strong enemy, who will threaten with an invasion of tavria and thus when knitting a land bridge, therefore , it is certainly necessary to move the border further, at least the rear ones are better in general in the area forbid, yes, crimea will be guaranteed from e

land invasion not only the peninsula, but even the naval forces of ukraine, which were based on the peninsula, did not develop on communication under ukraine e, however, if under poroshenko they did not actively try to return crimea, then under zelensky it became almost the number one problem for ukraine, why is zelensky trying to return it, crimea with his tongue, but his rhetoric has become exactly more active than under poroshenko, of course, the less you can physically. more you have to work rhetorically for poroshenko, uh, the main idea was to restore control over the remaining part of the donbass and crimea did not bother him so much, because in general, uh, for a long time yes, ukrainian nationalists proceeded from the fact that crimea is, in fact cut off hunk that he only hurts ukraine because there is too strong a pro-russian mood.

it is clear that, uh, if you defeated poroshenko in the donbass, everything would not be limited to donbass, you would immediately start preparing for the crimean operation, because the americans are strategically interested in crimea, and zelensky has the opportunity to return the crimea and return the lost right now at the first stage there is no territory. understood the question is how much territory he will lose and how long ukraine and power will never end at all. should we be afraid of this rhetoric zelensky take it seriously, you should not be afraid of what they don’t talk about, ukraine, eh? i realized and i think that ukrainian partners are abroad. they realized that they cannot win the war on the battlefield and that the war cannot be won economically, and they have brought the main efforts in recent months to the sphere of psychological pressure, everything that happens at the front, all the provocations that take place in our rear , all sabotage terrorist acts. this means that they are aimed at, uh, increasing the psychological pressure on

russian society in order to create panic legs - such threats, how serious they are and, uh, fundamentally for crimea , ukrainian allies go in banks. here i am, if you, the united states, fundamentally disregard this and actually gave away the escalation of the situation in ukraine from your own great britain. this great britain broke down and now it says you can bet ukraine on rationalistic missiles of actually medium range, that is, more than 500 km. and this is almost equal to placement. the territory of ukraine outside the window of medium-range nuclear weapons, because all these missiles are capable of being equipped with nuclear warheads, and no one will check that the ukrainians have been trained and given control over missile systems of such power and range. this means that western settlements will also be located there. that is, this is actually the beginning of the caribbean crisis , the danger is not that this missile can fly most of the missile. in any case

, shot down means, and the danger is that it actually means a transition to the brink of a nuclear confrontation. all this leads, uh, to a new round of tension, and in russia is already in relations with the west and brings these relations to citizens by conflict, moreover, by direct armed conflict. than immediately not tanks, guns, planes, missile weapons capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. thank you very much for a very detailed story. the famous song where the motherland begins , a kind of hymn to patriotism and love for one's land, was written to the verses of vladimir motasovsky, a native of lugansk, for the film shield and sword. this is a story about the soviet intelligence officer alexander belov, who during the war years destroyed the intelligence school of adler and several senior officers of the gestat, the song in the film appeared thanks to the consultant and

prototype of the main character, the legendary intelligence officer alexander svyatogorov. in search of suitable poems, the director of the film, vladimir basov, asked the opinion of the consultant , svyatogorov, suggested that the main most difficult moments. the scout does not think about himself , about who he risks for and accomplishes a feat about the motherland about close people about his home then basov found very subtle and lyrical poems by matusovsky. scout alexander svyatogorov he knew perfectly well what he was talking about, there was more than one successful operation on his account, not only during the war years, but even after it, materials on many of them are still kept under the heading top secret, nevertheless, historians call his name among the participants in the liquidation, the leader ukrainian nationalists stepan bandera in the fifties in munich and also

in connection with a daring operation to seize the secrets of the israeli masada ciphers. in prague, the beginning of a professional path. alexandra svetogorova. it was closely connected with novorossiya before the war. he worked in zaporozhye where he was a young komsomol member and was offered to enter the service of the people's commissariat of internal affairs. about the legendary soviet intelligence officer olga mokhova when the director vladimir basov, on the eve of the filming of the film the shield and the sword, arranged a meeting with intelligence officers and only then was told which of them was at one time, basov, an illegal immigrant, could not remember for a long time what he looked like. that's when he understood. what should be the main character of his film. here was a very interesting image of a scout, such a seemingly inconspicuous, but with such an inner core. eh, as if very

intelligent, but at the same time, at first glance, no matter how you determine it, yes, that it is he who is a scout for this inner strength. in alexander svyatogorev himself, perhaps they drew attention to the nkvd at the height of the repression of the thirties of the last century. he refused to slander his colleague, convinced of his decency, and already in the thirty-ninth, when a large-scale reform of the head of the shop, the plant began in the authorities, zaporizhzhya steel was invited to work there, instructing the revision did, yezhov was repressed during the seasons, especially on the territory of ukraine, a lot of people were repressed. well, it’s quite there and, of course, the employees who reviewed these cases were less biased towards people who suffered and , for sure, there were people who were released thanks to svyatogorov with the advent of ruko. the nkvd of lavrentiy beria was not only a purge of personnel, but his policy changed, the people's commissar seriously took up strengthening the potential of soviet intelligence and counterintelligence before alexander svyatogorov got into this secret structure.

at the very beginning of the great patriotic war, he, as part of a special group of the nkvd, worked in zaporozhye, the chekists were responsible for the evacuation of residents and enterprises, mining strategic objects, fighting marauders , and after the city was occupied by the germans, they carried out sabotage against the nazis. major general. verta, georg. brown has such a point of view that initially the chiefs who, uh, to the greatest extent determined the victory you can name three, which means zhukov georgy konstantinovich konstantinovich and e sudoplatov, that is, the entire partisan movement, but did not spontaneously arise. it was precisely what was purposefully organized in the occupied territory - this is the merit of platov from the fourth department of the nkvd here, until the very liberation of kiev by the soviet troops in november 1943, svyatogora

carried out the task of conducting reconnaissance sabotage activities against the nazis, trained partizan during the retreat, the germans left in the soviet rear a powerful intelligence network of personnel for which they were trained in a reconnaissance school in polish lublin, it was very important this enemy reconnaissance, uh , to destroy a partisan detachment that already existed, including on the territory of uh, poland uh and, accordingly, svyatogorova and his uh, comrades kovalenko hmm parachuted over the front line. it means that they did not find this partisan detachment and began to prepare the ground for the fulfillment of the tasks assigned to them. the history of the introduction of the soviet intelligence officer in lublin intelligence entered the film hee. the sword is only in it , our hero alexander belov gets there under the name of the ethnic german johan weiss svyatogor. but he called himself a former soldier of the ss galicia division, such a legend looked quite plausible for contacts with

the command. he took the pseudonym majorzorich from yugoslavia, there was some employee with the surname zoriche, who, with whom svyatogorov and zori were friends. apparently , svyatogorov also died in the forty-second year. i just used his last name as uh, actually a pseudonymous opera. tsy gurov was praised by admiral canaris about fascist slovakia major zorich svyatogorov participated in the liberation from captivity of the czechoslovak, communists and organizations of the national uprising. in bratislava, under the legend, do not return. he worked for several years in 1961. he was urgently recalled due to the threat of failure that year chekist bohdan stashinsky, the liquidator of the leaders of ukrainian nationalists and stepan bandera, fled from the gdr to west berlin, and he was an employee of the holy city. here he worked in his department. well, and since uh, there was a trial, and where he stated that he was, uh,

it means that he carried out the liquidation, and almost nothing was made for him, it was such an unprecedented decision that no matter how he was guilty, since he was carrying out the will of the criminal kgb of the criminal soviet union , that is, from these times. by the way, here's a precedent. further release of nazi criminals, who surrendered to the authorities of the frg, stashinsky received only 8 years for two murders, and after that he was released from prison ahead of schedule and his trace was lost. fiftieth anniversary of the formation of state security agencies. he personally initiates the state order for the creation of works of fiction and films that ennoble the image of the soviet chekist. thanks to andropov's initiative, the state security archives for a short period of time opened limited access to some files on the operations of the soviet

foreign intelligence, and the facts of the biography of alexander svetogorov were revealed. they entered the plot of the book by vadim kozhevnikov the shield and the sword, and then the script of the film of the same name by vladimir basov , first the first two series came out, then they came out there, the third fourth series and only then at the box office. they walked, as it were, in parallel, that is, for one, for example, the session was there the first and second series there, the boys were hiding , they tried to hide there in the cinema somewhere under the chairs to watch, at the same time, the third and fourth series. and in general, i know that they watched eight to 10 times. e quoted. in general, they were in love. in these heroes in the list of leaders of the soviet film distribution shields, the sword took eighth place in the year of release, it was watched by 68 million, viewers alexander svyatogorov in civilian life after retired engaged in security at the institute of cybernetics of the national academy of sciences. minal of ukraine passed away in kiev in 2008. in 2023, an outstanding intelligence officer with

a colossal track record would have turned 110 years old olga mokhova anastasia popova valery savelyev is a typical novorossiya. that's all we wanted to talk about. kirill vyshinsky was with you today. see you soon.

the russians can be defeated only if ukraine is set against them. the main task

was a swift offensive and access to our western border. overcome the water 3 km wide expanse with the dominant west bank, this is a very serious obstacle. that is, it was such a deep and shelonirovannaya defense. not all of these lines. we had to overcome 2438 people for the battle for the dnieper and received the title of hero of the soviet union in just everything, the previous history of heroes was less. eid al-adha president of russia