In Crimea, they announced the discovery of a forgery in the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR

When issuing a decree on the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR referred to a document that did not exist, told RIA Novosti head of the Committee on Legislation of the Crimean Parliament Sergei Trofimov.

The working group at the Crimean parliament, according to the agency, previously completed the preparation of a request to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the issue of the legitimacy of the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954.

According to Trofimov, the decree decides to approve “the joint submission of the presidiums of the Supreme Councils of the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR on the transfer of the Crimean region,” but such a document “did not exist in nature.” He clarified that during the study of the archives, the working group found only “individual resolutions of the presidiums of the republics,” but a joint submission “was not accepted.” In his opinion, the transfer of Crimea took place in violation of “the legal basis of three constitutions: the USSR, the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR.” For example, there was no referendum held within the RSFSR. This procedure should also have been carried out by the Ukrainian SSR, but this was not done either.

“After holding referendums and approving their results, there should have been appeals to the Supreme Council of the USSR, which could have decided to approve changes to the borders between the union republics, but none of these procedures took place,” the deputy said.

The fact that the Crimean parliament intends to appeal to the Constitutional Court became known in May. A working group was formed that was preparing a draft appeal to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in order to recognize the fact that the peninsula was transferred to Ukraine during the Soviet period as illegitimate. Chairman of the State Council of the Republic Vladimir Konstantinov stated, that not a single reason was found for transferring the peninsula from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. He explained that he considers it necessary to “state the insignificance” of these documents, although it is impossible to cancel “the impact of the acts of 1954, which distorted the fate of hundreds of thousands of people.”

Crimea was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR on February 19, 1954. It is believed that the initiator of the transfer was the First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev. From 1938 to 1949, with a short break, he headed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, that is, he actually led the republic. One of the explanations for the change in the “registration” of Crimea was the difficult economic situation on the peninsula after the war. The peninsula re-entered Russia in 2014 after a referendum. In 2015, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation considered the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 unconstitutional.