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Originally Posted by OH&S
That's a bizarre statement to make for someone who has no ties to the region. Hopefully Nachtwandler can give some insight into this but that bolded part sounds like it came directly from the mouth of a Russian nationalist; aka the Kremlin or Putin.
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You can just google it yourself, you know?
Yes, it's true.
Crimea became part of the Russian Empire in 1783, and then part of the Soviet Union.
In 1954, Khrushchev transferred it to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.