Friday, February 06, 2015 11:47:38 PM
Putin’s Peninsula Is a Lonely Island
No tourists, frightened tatars, and Russians have taken all the jobs. Welcome to Crimea in winter.
By Dimiter Kenarov
February 6, 2015
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — “Dear guests and residents of Crimea,” intoned the stern female voice of the airport announcer in Russian, as passengers from the most recent flight from Moscow waited in the baggage claim area. “Please, be aware that Ebola is a life-threatening disease with mortality rates of up to 90 percent. To receive more information about the symptoms of the disease, contact one of our representatives or the ticket desk.”
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It is difficult to say what the future holds for Crimea.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/06/putin-peninsula-lonely-island-crimea-annexation-russia-ukraine/
Some history.
Why Did Russia Give Away Crimea Sixty Years Ago?
By Mark Kramer .. one bit ..
Khrushchev had been elevated to the post of CPSU First Secretary in September 1953 but was still consolidating his leading position in early 1954. He had earlier served as the head of the Communist Party of Ukraine from the late 1930s through the end of 1949 (apart from a year-and-a-half during World War II when he was assigned as a political commissar to the front). During the last several years of Khrushchev’s tenure in the UkrSSR, he had overseen the Soviet government’s side of a fierce civil war in the newly annexed western regions of Ukraine, especially Volynia and Galicia. The civil war was marked by high levels of casualties and gruesome atrocities on both sides. Despite Khrushchev’s later role in denouncing Stalinism and implementing reforms in the USSR, he had relied on ruthless, unstinting violence to establish and enforce Soviet control over western Ukraine. Occasional armed clashes were still occurring in the mid-1950s, but the war was over by the time Crimea was transferred in February 1954. The repeated references at the meeting of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on 19 February to the “unity of Russians and Ukrainians” and to the “great and indissoluble friendship” between the two peoples, and the affirmation that the transfer would demonstrate how wise it was to have Ukraine “under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Soviet government,” indicate that Khrushchev saw the transfer as a way of fortifying and perpetuating Soviet control over Ukraine now that the civil war had finally been won. Some 860,000 ethnic Russians would be joining the already large Russian minority in Ukraine.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/why-did-russia-give-away-crimea-sixty-years-ago
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Wars and Conflicts of Ukraine .. bit ..
Ukraine Insurgency (1944-1956)-Not all Ukrainians welcomed the Soviets back as the Germans retreated. For over a decade, Ukrainian nationalist guerrilla groups fought against Soviet authorities. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), actively aided and supplied these anti-Soviet guerrilla groups. Most major combat ended around 1949 as the Soviets killed off more rebels and undertook harsh methods of control in the countryside. Sporadic violence continued until 1956, when the last rebels were captured, killed, or gave up. With the CIA involvement, this insurgency could be considered one part of the larger Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
http://www.historyguy.com/Wars_and_Conflicts_of_Ukraine.htm
No tourists, frightened tatars, and Russians have taken all the jobs. Welcome to Crimea in winter.
By Dimiter Kenarov
February 6, 2015
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — “Dear guests and residents of Crimea,” intoned the stern female voice of the airport announcer in Russian, as passengers from the most recent flight from Moscow waited in the baggage claim area. “Please, be aware that Ebola is a life-threatening disease with mortality rates of up to 90 percent. To receive more information about the symptoms of the disease, contact one of our representatives or the ticket desk.”
[...]
It is difficult to say what the future holds for Crimea.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/06/putin-peninsula-lonely-island-crimea-annexation-russia-ukraine/
Some history.
Why Did Russia Give Away Crimea Sixty Years Ago?
By Mark Kramer .. one bit ..
Khrushchev had been elevated to the post of CPSU First Secretary in September 1953 but was still consolidating his leading position in early 1954. He had earlier served as the head of the Communist Party of Ukraine from the late 1930s through the end of 1949 (apart from a year-and-a-half during World War II when he was assigned as a political commissar to the front). During the last several years of Khrushchev’s tenure in the UkrSSR, he had overseen the Soviet government’s side of a fierce civil war in the newly annexed western regions of Ukraine, especially Volynia and Galicia. The civil war was marked by high levels of casualties and gruesome atrocities on both sides. Despite Khrushchev’s later role in denouncing Stalinism and implementing reforms in the USSR, he had relied on ruthless, unstinting violence to establish and enforce Soviet control over western Ukraine. Occasional armed clashes were still occurring in the mid-1950s, but the war was over by the time Crimea was transferred in February 1954. The repeated references at the meeting of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on 19 February to the “unity of Russians and Ukrainians” and to the “great and indissoluble friendship” between the two peoples, and the affirmation that the transfer would demonstrate how wise it was to have Ukraine “under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Soviet government,” indicate that Khrushchev saw the transfer as a way of fortifying and perpetuating Soviet control over Ukraine now that the civil war had finally been won. Some 860,000 ethnic Russians would be joining the already large Russian minority in Ukraine.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/why-did-russia-give-away-crimea-sixty-years-ago
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Wars and Conflicts of Ukraine .. bit ..
Ukraine Insurgency (1944-1956)-Not all Ukrainians welcomed the Soviets back as the Germans retreated. For over a decade, Ukrainian nationalist guerrilla groups fought against Soviet authorities. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), actively aided and supplied these anti-Soviet guerrilla groups. Most major combat ended around 1949 as the Soviets killed off more rebels and undertook harsh methods of control in the countryside. Sporadic violence continued until 1956, when the last rebels were captured, killed, or gave up. With the CIA involvement, this insurgency could be considered one part of the larger Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
http://www.historyguy.com/Wars_and_Conflicts_of_Ukraine.htm
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