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In reply to the discussion: Most of us here were against the invasion of Iraq, correct? [View all]saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)I don't support US intervention in Ukraine. It's not a matter of silence vs loud voices. Why would the US want to support some feckless EU bureaucrats seeking to send the banksters into the Ukraine?
Professor Nina Khrushcheva argued your points with RT's Putin approved Oxana Boyko's interview. Professor Khrushcheva (USA) was diplomatic, intelligent and Ms. Boyko preferred deaf ears. We should not insult or enrage Tsar Putin. The US (we) have a habit of predicting winners based on a ego-centric, US exceptionalism propaganda model.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point
Crimea: A Gift To Ukraine Becomes A Political Flash Point
by Krishnadev Calamur
February 27, 2014
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Russians have a decidedly different view of the events.
On Feb. 19, 2009, Pravda ran a piece with the headline: "." Here's how the article described the events:
"Khrushchev informed his comrades of the decision to deliver Crimea to Ukraine incidentally, on the way to lunch. 'Yes, comrades, there is an opinion to deliver Crimea to Ukraine,' he said casually. No one dared to express any protests, because a word of the first face of the Communist Party was law.
"The agenda of the session of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which took place January 25, 1954, contained a question about the delivery of the Crimean region to the structure of the Ukrainian SSR [Soviet Socialist Republic]. The discussion of the question took only 15 minutes. The participants of the meeting approved the decree, and the region was given away to Ukraine for free."
As Siegelbaum, the MSU historian, notes in his essay: "A gift that was at the time essentially meaningless has acquired great historical importance."