...onsored coup d’etat in #Ukraine, which removed the legitimate government and left Ukraine without any constitutional government for several months. De facto Ukraine was ruled by the US/EU-approved Ukro-Nazi mob, which started eradication of everything #Russian in Ukraine. And Crimea stood high on their list of territories to be depopulated from the Russians.USA had its own interests in Crimea, having scouted it for its new US-NATO military base. Crimea would have become another Kosovo for ...
...the US-NATO, that was split off from #Serbia in a savage aggression on Yugoslavia in March 1999 and lead to the establishment one of the largest US-NATO military bases in #Europe – Camp Bondsteel,And then “The Third Siege of Crimea” – as the locals call it, the longest 25-year-long siege, ended and Crimea reunited with its motherland!The Crimeans exercised their right under the international law and the UN charter of people’s right to self-determination. It was not the first time the Crime...
...ans voted for the reunification, but this time it worked, while in 1991 the results were ignored and suppressed.Whatever passed between Russia and Ukraine in 1954, it was not sovereignty over Crimea. The Union States did not have sovereignty over the autonomous bodies within them. The USSR had sovereignty over both of them. According to the Constitution the Supreme Soviet would determine the fate of the autonomies if a state seceded.USSR Law of Secession: “The people residing in the autono...
...mies are given a right to independently decide whether to remain in the Soviet Union or in the seceding Republic as well as to decide on their state legal status.”Crimean Referendum Jan. 20, 1991: “Do you support re-establishing the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a subject of the Union SSR and a participant of the Union Treaty?”— 94.3% yes —@BeornAndTheShieldmaidenBoost