On Sunday 16th March 2014 a referendum was held in Crimea to determine whether the people of that region will stay in Ukraine or opt to be part of the Russian Federation. This was a positive development that has now made Crimea part of Russia and thereby right the wrongs of 1954.
This was the year that Crimea people were handed over, rather like cattle, to Ukraine by an over-generous and rather excitable Soviet President Nikita Kruschev who could not possibly have conceived what the future would hold 60 years later and who could not possibly have envisaged what a threat this act would eventually constitute to the fortunes, welfare and security of the Russian state.
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