Thread by @LubimayaRussiya

1) How can #Crimea be annexed/occupied when it was Russian since before #US existed? When there was no such thing as #Ukraine before Soviet Union? When Crimea was transfered ILLEGALLY TO UA in '56 without any referendum! When Crimea voted to return to #Russia since 1991!

2) Many don't know but it was in #Crimea, that #Russia was baptized into Orthodox Christianity faith in 988. Grand Prince of Kiev, Vladimir was baptized in Chersonesus. voltairenet.org/article182989.…

3) Before the #Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great annexed #Crimea, the Crimean Khanate, a Turkic vassal of the Ottoman Empire took hundred of thousands Russians and other Slavic groups into slavery! #Turkey #OttomanEmpire
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4) #Turkey (Ottoman Empire) and #Russia (Russian Empire) has numerous wars in history. In the first major war, 1763-74, Russia liberated Bulgaria, Moldovia from the Turks. That started the procedure of Russia having the Black Fleet in #Sevastopol. #Crimea britannica.com/topic/Russo-Tu…

5) The Black Fleet in Sevastopol would keep the Ottoman Empire at bay. #Crimea officially became Russian in 1783.
Crimean Tatars, who lived there welcomed Catherine the Great and #Russia. Actually, she trusted them with her life.

6) Fast forward to 1850s. France, England and Ottoman Empire sought to take #Crimea from #Russia. Thus, Crimean War was started by religious tensions. katehon.com/article/crimea…

7) In 1875, construction of the railway to the city of Sevastopol was completed and opened the vast Russian & European market for agricultural products, wines, confectionery. Business, trade, industry developed rapidly. Royal family summer residences were built #Crimea #Russia

8) From 1918-1921, in #Crimea, the intervention of Imperial Germany ended the inclusion of Crimea to the Soviet Union (1922) with the formation of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the USSR. #Russia dcstamps.com/crimea-german-…

9) #Crimea was not spared by the World War II. The population fell by half and the city laid in ruins, the economy as in the rest of the Soviet Union had been destroyed. The Germans were defeated in Crimea in May 1944. #Russia rbth.com/society/2014/0…

10) There is a film about a Red Army sniper known as Lady Death, one of the most major snipers of all time and most successful female snipers in history, Lyudmila Pavlichenko!! She took out 300 German soldiers! #Crimea

11) On 4th of February 1945, the infamous Yalta Conference begins in the #Crimea, as the Big Three (heads of government of the US, the UK and the #USSR/#Russia) meet before the surrender of #NaziGermany

12) Under Khrushchev in 1954, the #SovietUnion transfers the #Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR, marking the 300th anniversary of Pereiaslav Agreement which at that time was a violation of constitution of USSR!
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13) In 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine gained its independence absorbing #Crimea. #Ukraine fought against Crimea as an autonomous republic. There were numerous referendums for the peninsula to be independent in Ukraine. #Russia
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The turnout was 81%, with 94% for having #Crimea as autonomous within #Ukraine.
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#Ukraine declares the referendum illegal. It was Ukraine that annexed #Crimea in the 90s, with no outcry from the west. Here is a timeline of events. #Russia
"A rally in Simferopol in support of Crimea sovereignty, June 1992"
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There was a Russian TV program Russky Mir in 1993, about the fight about forced Ukrainization in Sevastopol (home of the Black Sea Fleet) #Crimea. #Ukraine #Russia

nytimes.com/1993/07/10/wor…

#Ukraine SBU troops were sent to #Crimea to seize the legislature and arrest Crimean president Meshkov in 1995. #Russia
mk.ru/politics/inter…

During this time, American puppet Boris Yeltsin "did not give a damn about Crimea."
sputniknews.com/politics/20150…

In May 1997, Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty was signed by president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma and Russian President Boris Yeltsin. This is when American puppet Yeltsin recognized Crimea as Ukraine. #Russia #Ukraine #Crimea
nytimes.com/1997/06/01/wor…

Since the Soviet Union dissolved, NATO annexed many former USSR states. There were fears that the North Atlantic Treaty Org, would annex #Ukraine (having #Crimea), making the peninsula a NATO base. In 2006, there was anti-NATO protest in Feodosia. rferl.org/a/1068836.html

“We had rocks thrown at us. Rocks hit Marines. Buses were rocked back and forth. We were just trying to get to our base.” Lt. Colonel Tom Doman, the Marines’ executive officer #Crimea #Russia #Ukraine

stalkerzone.org/crimean-town-n…

Soon after the NATO incursion into #Crimea, #Russia tells #Ukraine to stay out of the organization
theguardian.com/world/2006/jun…

In 2008, #Ukraine applied to join the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) in 2008. MAP is a NATO program to help countries looking for membership in their preparations. But it would not come through! washingtonpost.com/news/worldview…

In April 2010, #Ukraine extended the treaty that extends #Russia’s lease of Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol until 2042. The lease was supposed to expire in 2017. #Crimea theguardian.com/world/2010/apr…

In November 2013, there were protests in Kiev and civil unrest in #Ukraine's Kiev. It was the beginning of the overthrow of Yanukovych, the 4th president of the country. #Russia
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The #US has brokered a deal for a regime change in #Ukraine. Spending $5 billion dollars since it's independence in 1991. Even Barack Obama admitted it on CNN.

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The #US had their "Ukrainian Insider" Petro Poroshenko replace Yanukovych in a coup. #Ukraine

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