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In 1954 to counterbalance the Ukrainian nationalists and the [[CIA]]-backed Nazi counterinsurgency in [[Western Ukraine]] that extended even after [[Hitler]]'s death, Soviet Premier [[Khruschev]] unilaterally without consent of the people transferred the majority [[Russian]] population of Crimea from the [[Russian Federation]] and placed them under [[Kiev]] administration and the [[Ukrainian SSR]]. The [[authoritarian]] [[Maidan regime]] wants them back, not because a majority of ethnic Ukrainians live there- which they don't, but because Crimea is a large resort area with its mild and temperate climate. Crimea has been a prize fought over, not just by Russians and Ukrainians, but others from the "frozen north" (Hitler wanted to make the Crimea the "German Riviera" in his [[Lebensraum]] program).
In 1954 to counterbalance the Ukrainian nationalists and the [[CIA]]-backed Nazi counterinsurgency in [[Western Ukraine]] that extended even after [[Hitler]]'s death, Soviet Premier [[Khruschev]] unilaterally without consent of the people transferred the majority [[Russian]] population of Crimea from the [[Russian Federation]] and placed them under [[Kiev]] administration and the [[Ukrainian SSR]]. The [[authoritarian]] [[Maidan regime]] wants them back, not because a majority of ethnic Ukrainians live there- which they don't, but because Crimea is a large resort area with its mild and temperate climate. Crimea has been a prize fought over, not just by Russians and Ukrainians, but others from the "frozen north" (Hitler wanted to make the Crimea the "German Riviera" in his [[Lebensraum]] program).
Crimea has become a vital national security asset to Russia, as much as [[Guam]] is to the [[United States]], if not more so.
[[File:Aivazovsky, Seascape in Crimea, 1866.jpg|left|300px|thumb|[[Ivan Aivazovsky]], Seascape in Crimea, 1866.]]
[[File:Aivazovsky, Seascape in Crimea, 1866.jpg|left|300px|thumb|[[Ivan Aivazovsky]], Seascape in Crimea, 1866.]]
The Crimea was the location of the [[Crimean War]] of 1853-56 in which British, French, Sardinian and Turkish forces fought Russia in a war sparked by an abstruse dispute over the question of custodianship of the Holy Places in [[Jerusalem]]. When [[Lenin]] took power through revolution, he at first ceded Ukraine to [[Germany]] at the [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]]. Later the [[Treaty of Versailles]] did not recognize the cessation. Lenin then established a system of autonomous republics in which he separated Ukraine and [[Belarus]] from the former Russian Empire.
The Crimea was the location of the [[Crimean War]] of 1853-56 in which British, French, Sardinian and Turkish forces fought Russia in a war sparked by an abstruse dispute over the question of custodianship of the Holy Places in [[Jerusalem]]. When [[Lenin]] took power through revolution, he at first ceded Ukraine to [[Germany]] at the [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]]. Later the [[Treaty of Versailles]] did not recognize the cessation. Lenin then established a system of autonomous republics in which he separated Ukraine and [[Belarus]] from the former Russian Empire.