Crimean Situation

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Crimean Situation

Postby bennymacca » Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:51 am

not sure how many others are following this, but i find the crimean situation quite interesting.

interesting article about how hillary clinton compared the situation to Nazi germany and their expansionist agenda after WWI. I think there is obviously a lot more to it though, particularly with the fact there has quite obviously been some western agitation involved in the original overthrow of the pro-russian government in the ukraine, which further complicates matters.

will be interesting to see how the international community handles this

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-25/h ... ut/5325608
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Re: Crimean Situation

Postby Psyber » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:32 pm

I knew a lot of Ukes in my University days, but most of them were the kids of parents who got out when they saw the Russians were coming back late in WWII, and so they and their families had an anti-Russian bias. The countries bordering Russia have been under Russian rule intermittently for a long time, and over that time ethnic Russians have settled in the occupied territories.

So, now there is a significant culturally and linguistic Russian population in countries like the Ukraine, and the loyalties of the citizens are split.Since nobody can actually stop them with military intervention, and none of the big powers in the west will go near that, I expect Russia will take over whatever they want on the basis of their people living there.

Look at the odd situation of Kaliningrad Oblast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
The territory of the Kaliningrad Oblast is that of the northern part of historical East Prussia (German: Nord-Ostpreussen), which was an exclave of Germany from World War I until 1945. That year, it was occupied by the Soviet Union, whose armies remained until the war ended. The region was later annexed to the Soviet Union under border changes promulgated in the Potsdam Agreement, when it was attached to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Most of its indigenous German population were killed or fled westward to what would become West Germany during the last months of the war. The rest were expelled between 1944 and 1950. Russian settlers were moved in and the population has been majority Russian ever since.
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