Polygraph.com’s Russian Annexation of Crimea Story is BS

Polygraph.com’s assessment of how Russia took possession is fundamentally a whopper. The facts are that Russia got the Crimea during the reign of Catherine the Great legally as part of a settlement of a Russia-Turkey war. The Soviet Union in ending the Russian imperial government reapportioned areas of Russia into different administrative districts. Yet the Crimea was still Russian regardless of where the Soviets placed it in their structure. When the Soviet Union ended all historically Russian lands should have remained Russian.

Russia was a name almost interchangable with the Soviet Union. It wasn't an entirely different nation. Lands that were in the Soviet Union that were in Russia before the October Revolution will be long regarded as Russian with perhaps, some a Muslim nation exceptions. When the Soviet Union ended so did some Soviet political districts. There is no easy transition after the Evil Empire except to Russian return.

The Ukraine was given away by Lenin to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk. German’s had sent Lenin in a sealed train to Russia to take it over and put the Bolshevik party into power. Lenin ended Russia’s participation, or rather that of the Soviet Union and in exchange for peace (and a little promised help) let Germany have much of the Ukraine. Germans moved in and supported the 3^rd Reich in world war two when the Soviets (aka Russians and others) took it back from Germany.

So the title to Ukraine is a little fogged. To exclude Russia altogether is bullshit. To pretend that Russia just invaded the Ukraine to take the Crimea because it has been Ukrainian for at least 60 years may be a propaganda point that Bolshevik Ukrainians might want to make, yet it is bullshit, for the benefit of Wall Street-hostile takeover of Russian lands polemicists.

https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-russian-crimea-land-grab/29496991.html