Russia in the occupied Crimea wants to suppress the resistance of the Crimean Tatars, but gets the opposite effect, because they have a huge experience of peaceful protest against the most terrible totalitarian regime.

According to Apostrophe, such a statement was made by journalist Ayder Muzhdabaev, commenting on the trials of more than 70 Crimean Tatars who went to solitary pickets against Russian repressions on the peninsula.

"Russia gets the opposite effect: the Russian invaders have not yet understood with what kind of people they are dealing with. And they are dealing with a people who for two generations struggled to return to their homeland while in the Soviet Union. Crimean Tatars once invented almost all forms of peaceful resistance, which later were used by Soviet dissidents, "he said..

According to Muzhdabaev, Russia because of these repressions will look weak and shameful in the eyes of the whole world.

"Russia wants to suppress the resistance of the Crimean Tatars, but it turns out the opposite effect. We are a self-organizing nation. If people see that this is how they treat their compatriots, they will help and will do it demonstratively. This people has a huge experience of peaceful protest against the most terrible totalitarian regime. Russia wants to look strong, but will look weak and shameful in the eyes of the whole world, "- said the journalist.

"But Russia can not otherwise. From the asphalt rink, you never get a bicycle - the entire Russian system is so arranged, it is set up for repression, does not have a back stroke and can not wag anywhere. We can argue as much as we like, why. And simply because otherwise the asphalt roller does not travel, "he noted..

Muzhdabaev is convinced that Russia's repressions will only intensify, since nothing new can be invented.

"Moreover, they do not even succeed in replacing our Mejlis with a fake parliament, it is not possible to entice the Crimean Tatars into nothing. That's why they understood that the only way is the path of repression, extortion, fear ... ", he summed up over two hundred years, since the first annexation of the Crimea by the Russian empire ...".