The 1954 "gift" of the Crimea

From: [email protected]
Date: Fri Mar 21 2014 - 10:35:37 EST

Here's the take of the Ukrainian ambassador to Great Britain:

http://www.unian.ua/politics/899257-posol-ukrajini-u-britaniji-u-1954-rotsi-ukrajina-vryatuvala-krim-ekonomika-yakogo-bula-znischena-viynoyu.html

There are also quotesa from Putin's speech criticizing Khrushchov's
"unconstitutionalism" as to this.

I haven't looked at the entire Putin tirade on this. But I wonder if
eith he or Khandohij mentioned the main propagandistic excuse for the
1954 connection. To wit, a "brotherly" territorial grant to the
Ukrainian SSR to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the "reunion of
Ukraine to Russia"...

One could understand why Putin would have been reluctant to mention
this issue. Though he did babble about other territories unwarrantedly
assigned to Ukraine by the Bolsheviks. Of course no mention about the
lands arbitrarily retained by Russia at that time (So. Kursk, So.
Voronezh, Kuban', etc...)

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