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Originally posted by seanoh
Kalinovka is on the border between Ukraine and Russia, and many people believe that Khruschev's favorite Soviet republic was Ukraine. And Ukraine was given Crimea as a half-assed apology for Stalin forcing a famine onto the Ukrainian Kulaks that didn't want to obey him. It was a big deal because Crimea's ports were important to the Soviet military. Evidently they still are since Russia managed to launch an invasion and take over
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Also... Russians are not the majority of Crimeans, they are about evenly split with Ukrainians. And it does not matter, it's now part of another country so they are not allowed to interfere. It's like saying Austria should annex Alto Adige because there are germans there...
Moreover, Crimean Tatars were deported by Stalin and other leaders not even 100 years ago so it's not like Crimea is this Russian ancestral land.
Let's not forget that without the land-lease program from, you hear it, the USA, the URSS would have likely lost the war against Germany and would have not been able to industrialize so quickly.