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Of course, Comrade Commissar Khrushchev had no responsibility - pure as the wind driven snow, so to speak.

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Of course, Comrade Commissar Khrushchev had no responsibility - pure as the wind driven snow, so to speak.

The reason Crimea became a part of the Ukraine, was that Khrushchev needed the support of the Ukrainians in his power bid after Stalin's death. So he threw them a bone by offering the Ukrainian SSR the Crimea.

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KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin’s biographer noted that the inevitable question of Khrushchev’s involvement in those very same Stalinist crimes he denounced was a major step towards his tacit dissidence.