[DanZ]

In 1954, the Soviet Union transferred Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR from the Russian SFSR. The transfer to Ukraine was made by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. The year 1954 happened to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav, which was signed in 1654 by representatives of the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate and Tsar Alexis of Russia.

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[Alas Babylon!]

Ever look at the map of Poland over the centuries? Man, that goes from half of Russia to NOTHING in 1783 to back on the map in 1920.

Dan, weren’t you born in Eastern Europe? Some of those countries there were Roman provinces, totally different from their original inhabitants (I’m thinking Dacia, Dalmatian, Thracia, Moessia, Pannonia), then overrun by, in order, Goths, Huns, Slavs, Germans, Mongols, Bulgars and lastly Turks.

Before Ukraine there was Scythia, land of barbarian horsemen, like Conan, then became Kievan Rus (founded by Vikings!), and then after, part of the Mongols Golden Horde. Russia didn’t conquer it until the 14/1500s, and only got to Crimea in the 19th Century, wrestling it from the Turks. In Antiquity, Crimea was Greek, and the Roman, then Byzantium.

What a legacy!

Also, take England—First, Celtics/Picts/Britons, then Romans, then Saxons, Angles and Jutes, then Vikings and Danes, then Normans, who were Vikings, but became French somehow... Then finally, melded into England, land of the English...