Crimea become "Ukrainian" only when ukrainian Khrushev signed the document about transfer Crimea area under Ukraine rule in a borders of Soviet Union. While Ukraine was in Soviet Union - it could rule Crimea, when it became independent state - it would be obliged to return it.
Thank you! People are slinging shit left and right while they are ignorant about the facts and are lazy to look into history making a fool out of themselves following the agenda of media spread lies. Sevastopol has always been the home of The Black Sea Fleet.
Everyone has their own "history" to believe. Much of it revisionist and much of it with pertinent facts omitted. Sevastopol has long been a Russian port, but when this latest crisis that claimed Russia needed to protect Sevastopol come up the port was not in danger of falling out of Russian control, just as Gauntonomo is not is not in danger of being lost the US. Control of Sevastipol to Russia has never been an issue.
Geeze louise. That's all NATO wanted. The Ukraine gave them nothing. Crimea was every thing. It was the game.
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Seems like all Ukrainian "Western partners" have been pretty much fed up with Ukraine, unreliable, demanding, provoking and full of Nazis on the top of everything. I googled "Masks of Revolution" and was surprised how many fresh articles appeared questioning Ukrainian "democracy" and legacy. Too many to post here, but here are just a few of them:
1. European Parliament Member Jean-Luc Schaffhauser said that
Ukraine cannot be called a democratic and legal state until it holds those responsible for the atrocities in Odessa, and for the terrorist attacks on the electricity supply lines between Ukraine and Crimea accountable.
On February 1, the French Canal+ television channel
aired an investigative filmabout Ukrainian far-right parliamentary groups by the French documentary maker Paul Moreira, titled “Masks of Revolution.” The film covers the events in Ukraine in 2014, including the rise of far-right radical groups such as The Right Sector, The Azov Battalion and the Svoboda political party as well as the deadly violence in the southern Ukrainian town of Odessa, which left over 40 anti-government protesters dead.
“I hope that after seeing the report, the French government, including [Prime Minister Laurent] Fabius, will put an end to the policy of imposing unilateral sanctions against Russia, as well as postpone the visa-free regime with Ukraine, since the film demonstrates [to] us how Ukraine is neither a legal nor a democratic state as shown by the local elections in Krivoy Rog and Mariupol,” Schaffhauser said.
Ukraine cannot be called a democratic and legal stateuntil it holds those responsible for the atrocities in Odessa, and for the terrorist attacks on the electricity supply lines between Ukraine and Crimea accountable, Schaffhauser stressed.
“I am happy that Canal+ was brave enough…I am happy that after the February 2014 coup, people began to see the true nature of the illegal formations supporting the regime in Kiev, and the nature of the coup orchestrated by the United States,” Schaffhauser said.
New French Film on Ukraine May Change Anti-Russia Stance (full video in French) | Veterans Today
2. For those who did not follow events at the time, the coup in Kiev was a Washington/NATO-backed regime-change operation with US Khazarian mafia proxies and associated loons, including Victoria Nuland and the vacuous John McCain, up to their elbows in the blood and tears of a nation.
The Russian speaking more-than-half of the country took none too kindly to their country being taken over by neo-Nazi yobs and American-backed (or just plain American) bankster oligarchs and swiftly rose in a revolt that has been tearing the country apart ever since.
The residents of Crimea voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia (to which it used to belong until the Communists gave it to Ukraine).
The Crimean Parliament then duly announced its secession from Ukraine and re-entry into the embrace of Mother Russia, where it rightly figured the Crimean people would be a lot safer and more prosperous. Russia backed that up with military muscle just in case the strutting clowns in Kiev got any funny ideas about ignoring the will of the people in the true tradition of Western-style democracy and snatched it back again.
Russia did something quite rare and remarkable in the modern economically-mismanaged world: she
paid off the last of her debts in 2006. Her President,Vladimir Putin, currently
enjoys approval among Russiansthat exceeds a staggering eighty percent rating.
Steve Cook Writer: Kiev understandably embarrassed by French documentary that lets the cat out of the bag over the Maidan coup.
3. I have heard the legal and geo-political arguments for and against the annexation or return of Crimea to Russia. No need to go into it here.
However, if you understand the rabid ultra-nationalism, the fever pitch blood lust and the climate of fear emanating out of the overthrow of Yanukovych and the aftermath, you will understand there was no real alternative.
The added element which struck such fear and dread in the Russian speaking Ukrainians of the east and south east was the rapid rise to prominence and infamy of the neo-Nazi militias, recast as such from their street thug roots.
A group of Crimean’s travelled to Maidan to express their democratic views. The Fort Russ website explains their fate.
Eight buses with Crimeans, who participated in Kiev in Antimaidan rallies, were returned home [after their opponents have won]. Near Korsun in Cherkasy oblast, the convoy was ambushed by the armed thugs from the Right Sector. As became known later, the Nazis were aware of the movement of the column and were expecting the Crimeans.
The captured buses were burned, their passengers were brutally tortured, beaten and humiliated. Several people were beaten to death and murdered. One victim said: “when we were in trouble, not one military, nor the police saved us. No one would give a damn. When they let us go, told us to pass a message that they will soon arrive in Crimea, and it will be much worse than in Kiev. I’m glad that someone will protect us.”
When the survivor of the bus convoy said they were “glad that someone will protect us”, they naturally were referring to Vladimir Putin. Failure to act to protect would likely have seen the people of Crimea suffer the fate of many other Ukrainians, bombed in their homes by the military or bashed with poles and shot by thugs on the street.
It is very unlikely the Russian troops based legally in Sevastapol, Crimea as part of the Black Sea Fleet, under a Russia/Ukraine 1997 agreement, would have allowed attacks on civilians or infrastructure.
Vladimir Putin would have acted swiftly and decisively if any such attempts were made. The referendum ensured the safety of Crimean’s and defused a potential military conflict between Russian and Ukrainian forces.
Will the West Finally Admit the "Dirty Truth" Behind the So-Called Ukraine Revolution, Revealed by French Documentary
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