Russian culture will be off-limits in Crimea, if Ukraine regains control of the peninsula, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, has claimed.

Podoliak said Kiev is planning on meting out legal punishments to Russian passport holders and other “traitors” living in the region.

No wonder about 95% of Crimea residents voted to rejoin Russia in 2014, after the US-instigated/financed, violent coup d’Etat that killed / "disappeared' several hundred people during several months.

“As soon as we enter, we must eradicate everything Russian in Crimea,” Podoliak stated in an interview with Radio Liberty published on Wednesday.

He argued that the predominantly Russian-speaking region should instead become part of the “Ukrainian cultural space.”

Acknowledging that his views are among the most radical within the leadership in Kiev, Podoliak insisted that Crimean residents would not be able to read Russian literature or watch Russian movies, let alone speak Russian in public. Instead, the language would only be permitted in private, the official added.

According to Podoliak, those who refused to comply would have to leave.

Locals would also face mass investigations and “legal punishments” for anyone who has switched from Ukrainian to Russian citizenship, as well as those deemed to be “collaborators and traitors” by the Ukrainian authorities.

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Podoliak argued that the process, which he described as “very powerful stabilization measures,” would be difficult.

“We’re going to have to break it all down,” he said with respect to Crimea’s Russian identity.

This looks like major ethnic/cultural cleansing, totally against EU rules and UN rules. 

The US and EU are sending hundreds of billions of dollars of our hard-earned money "for as long as it takes" (takes what?) to former comedian Zelensky, who was popular on Russian TV, but now listens to such radical advisors. He grew up speaking Ukrainian. His father was a professor.

Ukraine will be totally destroyed, even more so with UK-supplied radioactive U238 artillery ammunition poisoning the Ukraine people and soils for many decades.

The presidential aide expressed confidence that Ukrainian forces would retake the peninsula within seven months, claiming that his outlook is “mathematically verified” and that Russia lacked the necessary resources to retain the region.

However, Podoliak did not rule out negotiations between Kiev and Moscow on Crimea, provided that the Kremlin first withdrew its troops from territory that Ukraine claims as its own.

Crimean residents (Russians, 65%, Ukrainians, 25%, Tartars, 10%) overwhelmingly voted to rejoin Russia since 2014, after the Maidan coup in Kiev.
There were fears among the Russian majority, Ukrainian AZOV-style, tattooed, nationalists, who had come to power in Kiev, would try to forcefully impose their language and culture on them, as they tried to do in the Donbas area of East Ukraine.

Crimea has been part of Russia since 1783, after the Ottoman Empire lost several wars against Katherine the Great's Russian Empire.

Crimea was transferred to Kiev administrative control by the Soviet authorities in 1954, during which time it became impoverished, due to neglect and corruption by Kiev multi-billionaire oligarchs, such as Poroshenko, who later became president with US approval 

The Ottoman Empire also ceded most of the lands bordering the Black Sea.

Prior to that, the Black Sea was an Ottoman Empire lake. The Tartars were slave raiders of Russians, and sold them to the Ottoman Empire 

Odessa, on the Black Sea, a cultural center, and trading and shipping city, was founded by Katherine the Great in 1794