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| 'Crimea has returned to its historical homeland' says PM |
| 2015-03-16 |
 [M.BBC] A year ago, people in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to join Russia again, after six decades of being part of Ukraine.This followed a deliberate campaign, agreed by President Putin himself, to send in so-called volunteers (often serving Russian soldiers) to cut off Crimea's road links with Ukraine, take over its military and naval bases and seize hold of its government. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 I referred to the 'Turks' rather than Turkey as a nation, identifying as a tribal people as in the Crimean Khanate rather than a modern concept of a Turkish state. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-03-16 14:07 |
| #5 Non. Procopius. IKt was the Crimean Tatrs and they wern't subjects, only vassals of Turkey. THeir main source of income was "harvesting the steppe" taht is capturing and seling Ukranian and Russian slaves. That is until Russia destroyed the Khanate. After that Crimea was Russian for nearly two centuries until Krutschen gave it to Ukrania in orer to get nthe support of the Ukranian delegates. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-03-16 13:29 |
| #4 Didn't the British fight the Russians over the Crimea in the 1800s? Well, it certainly wasn't Ukrainians. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-03-16 13:01 |
| #3 ...no. The Crimea was only the theater of operations in the Western European alliance (UK, France, nascent Italy) to contain Russia from its expansion against Turkey. However, by time occupied, you'd have to give the Turks the better claim. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-03-16 09:56 |
| #2 Didn't the British fight the Russians over the Crimea in the 1800s? |
| Posted by: Omomose Turkeyneck5405 2015-03-16 09:45 |
| #1 Let's face it - that is historically true. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2015-03-16 00:03 |