Aksyonov's starting point was that if Crimea were an island, it could have become to the Soviet Union what Taiwan/Formosa was to the PRC.
Posted on 02/28/2014 5:30:29 PM PST by BurningOak
Tension in the Crimea grew tonight as the Russian government finally confirmed it had sent soldiers into the troubled region.
Ukraine’s interim leadership denounced the “armed intervention” on its southern territory – a key strategic area where Russia’s Black Sea naval fleet is still based.
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Reports claimed 2,000 Russian soldiers had landed in the region, while armed militia carrying Russian flags earlier seized the international airport near the Crimean capital Simferopol and a military base close to Sevastopol.
Unconfirmed reports emerged suggesting that a convoy of armoured vehicles was moving towards Simferopol.
Roads to the airport were also blocked by unidentified troops.
Ukraine’s acting president Oleksandr Turchynov accused Russia of trying to provoke Kiev into “armed conflict”.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
It’s more about hard dollars from the gas pipelines. This link illustrates this point.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-conflict-in-one-map-2013-12
I figured he would do this immediately after the Olympics concluded...
Ironic seeing as they probably love Uncle Vlad for his supposed displeasure of homosexuality. Then again...
I think you are right on 1930 situation
It should have been handled way back in 1992, like the Czechs and Slovaks did.
Crimea should never have been part of Ukraine in the first place, only a drunken Khrushchev trying to make nice with the Ukrainians he so brutally persecuted under Stalin. Of course it was more of a symbolic gesture back in the days of the Soviet Union...but now the chickens have come home to roost.
Aksyonov's starting point was that if Crimea were an island, it could have become to the Soviet Union what Taiwan/Formosa was to the PRC.
You are probably right.
Still, this should have been handled through a proper political process and not through multi levels of thuggery. If the Russians wanted merely to have the Russian regions re-attached then they could have worked with the locals in the Ukraine to that limited end. Instead they have been attempting to control the Ukraine as a whole, using the local Russians as their instruments.
Could have happened, possibly, if the Whites had run their war better.
I was going to mention this book but I figured nobody heard of it. Want to hear about a funny/spooky coincidence? The Putin stooge who has just been put in charge of Crimea and is inviting in the Russians in named... Aksyonov! No, not the same guy just same name.
How is that for an Illuminati conspiracy!
Hmmmm ...
Sergey Aksyonov, the Crimean leader, was actually born in Moldova, so he's a Russian nationalist born in Moldova who lives in the Ukraine. And his party is called Russian Unity. Again, pretty strange for a party in one country to take another country's name in its own. And they have 3 seats out of 100 in the Crimean Parliament.
Vasily Aksyonov went back to the Old World and died in Moscow in 2009. His return to Russia would have been hard to foresee 30 years ago, but I'm reminded that his novel did end with a Soviet invasion of Crimea, so he did get that part right. Looking back, though, (if I remember correctly) Aksyonov's Russian Civil War story of how his fictional Crimea became independent was the best thing in the book.
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