[annalex]

Crimea was stolen from Russia 50 years ago and given to the Ukraine

Yes. To remedy that:

1. RF needs to legally break with the USSR and restore the legislative and political environment of the Russian Empire.
2. It should condemn the February and the October revolutions as criminal acts, condemn the Communist ideology and the Soviet culture as a gangrene on the body of Historical Russia.
3. It should prohibit anyone who held a position of power in the USSR, or who profited from the breakup of the USSR using his KGB ties, from holding any office.
4. It should declare null and void all acts of the USSR, not just the transfer of Crimea to USSR. It should, for example, return East Prussia.
5. It should then negotiate problems that arise with the states that are now sovereign.

Right now RF cannot be the rump USSR, wave the red flags and at the same time complain if it faces an anti-Communist revolution. As it stands now a last swindler and alcoholic in Kiev has more right to the entire territory of Ukraine than any of these sovs.

[CodeToad]

Says you. Thank God you weren’t a British subject in 1775. You’d have been a Tory.