• CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Crimea was handed to Ukraine by Krushchev in the time of the USSR, it was Russian before that for I don’t know how long, but as others said pretty much everyone living in Crimea is Russian to this day.

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      1 year ago

      it was Russian before that for I don’t know how long

      1783, the fall of Crimean Khanate, but most of population was Slavic for a loong time by then, Tatars ruling it were a minority.