“Crimea does belong to Ukraine, Ron bs Paul”
Total BS ^ .
Crimea was part of Russia since Catherine the Great bought it from the Ottoman Turks before the USA had a Constitution.
Nikita Khrushchev, following the death of Stalin, gave it to Ukraine in an internal USSR deal in return for the support of Ukrainian party bosses in his quest to become premier of the USSR.
This would be like Eisenhower giving Long Island to CT during a hotly contested election in return for CT’s needed electoral votes.
New York would never accept this “deal,” and would take back Long Island from CT the first chance they got.
Yep.
In a recent poll of Russians by the state-run All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion, 56 percent of the respondents said they saw Crimea as belonging to Russia.
https://www.voanews.com/a/the-history-of-crimea-—in-brief-/1860431.html