Whenurhappy, this land was Russian until the 1930s, in the case of Crimea until the 1950s. We are talking about events ie the 1950s that are till in living memory and the 1930s, just.
The land was given away by the unelected Soviet government without consulting the local population.
In the scheme of things Crimea being Russian does not matter to us, all of eastern Ukraine or Novorossiya, whatever one wants to call it going back to Russia also does not matter. If the people who live there or enough of them want it so be it. Besides as Maidan showed, if one group of people can rise up and overthrow their government with considerable western support (western politicians walking the streets with protestors and interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine as they did, remember that!!!!!) then the people of the east can rise up to and say ''tough luck, you ousted the President we voted for by a big margin, you want to join the EU and walk away from Russia, then we will walk away from you''! If one group of people can do as they wish so can another. If Russia does not help them who else will. The western governments screamed loudly if Yanukovych tried to bring order to his country, yet now the new western puppets can do as they please against the people of the east.
All I can say is well done Russia for protecting the people of the Donbass as best as you possibly can and for liberating Crimea.
Besides do we really want to have to pay loads and loads to Kiev!!! What is in it for us!!!!! Leave Ukraine to stay a puppet of Moscow and funded by Moscow.
Our relationship with Moscow is far more important than worrying about Ukraine. We need to work with them on defeating real enemies, like the ones who carried out the terrible attacks in France during the past days who are a threat to us all.
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