On the prohibition of entry to Ukraine Mikhail Gorbachev

In late May, Ukraine banned for five years from entering the country Mihailu Gorbachovu due to public support for the annexation of Crimea, says Ukrainian magazine “Korrespondent” .

News commented on the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseeva. “I am thankful to Gorbachev for many things – said human rights activist. – Mikhail Sergeyevich did for Russia and the world more than afford the average person. Monument deserves a fact of destruction of the Berlin Wall, and a proposal to stop the arms race. The first and last president of the USSR – a good man, not the aggressor and not imperialist. “

“But he’s a politician, – adds Alekseeva – and as a politician is considered that 80% of the population supports the Russian annexation of the Crimea, adjusted pro-imperial”.

“I myself was born in Yalta and I know well the story of the deportation of Crimean Tatars, says the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group. – Therefore, never be able to put up with the pressure, which is now experiencing the Crimean Tatars by the Russian authorities. These people in the Soviet era has set an example of resistance. When in Moscow, the regime fought a handful of human rights activists, the Crimean Tatars piled letter to the USSR to put them in Bakhchisaray, Simferopol, Sudak and other towns of the peninsula. Tatars have shown all of us an example of how people can go to the end. The symbol of this movement, of course, is Mustafa Dzhemilev, who all his life fought for the return of the Tatars to their homeland. ” “And the fact that he was not allowed to Crimea, I care about so much more than that Gorbachev did not arrive in Ukraine” – sums up Lyudmila Alexeyeva.

Sourse, 07/06/2016