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Originally Posted by CroFlames
By no means am I defending Putin as he is a bad player, but Crimea was always historically Russian, was it not? Sevastopol was one of those quasi-independent city states within the USSR, but Crimea was always a Russian region since Russians existed I thought.
It was a political move to let Ukraine SSR have the region during the 20th century, and it is currently majority Russians.
Still doesn't mean he has a right to snatch it away, but understandable to an extent.
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Crimea was historically inhabited by Tatars, who were ethnically cleansed and replaced by Russians and Ukrainians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deport...es%20of%20land.