Comments by "Donald MacKerer" (@donaldmackerer9032) on "Why did Nikita Khrushchev Give Crimea to Ukraine?" video.

In a weird way this makes sense. Ideologically I could see the Soviet Union doing this. It seems like it would fit in with the communist ideology at the time. Now how things worked out in reality and practically i'm not sure right now. But this does seem a plausible hypothesis. However a hypothesis nonetheless for the time being.
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@Zeldan Yeah that kind of seems to be the case. If I remember correctly, I think the the russian Bolsheviks and the Ukrainian bolshevicks waged war against one another. The Russian bolsheviks eventually won because of better leadership and organization in large part due to the efforts of Leon Trotsky. Correct me if i'm wrong on that part.
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O m g this issue about crimea is so complicated! It's hard to see who's right and who's wrong and to what degree, What's fair and what's unfair to either side. Then there are the practical issues to be considered and what would They mean to either side. Would there be any kind of possible compromise both could live with. And what about the Crimean people themselves, especially the native born ones who have been living for several generations? What do they think and feel? What percentage do they feel one way or the other? It appears they are caught in the middle here and nobody seems to care about what they think. Who knows, They may even want to be independent of both countries. At any rate all these are issues I think need to be explored.
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I have to agree that that is an issue that needs to be explored and you brought up a valid point. The last thing I'd heard about the naval base at Sevastopol, was that Ukraine renewed the lease on the Russian navel base there to 2042 before the invasion of 2014. It's A shame if that was the main issue of the naval base because that would have made the invasion unnecessary. Now for the rest of it I still have a lot of research to do about Sevestopol.
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@Männtashsh-Pyrre That is an instrusting idea. Sometimes I get lennon's policy confused with trotsky's. I read a biography a long time ago about Trotsky. For a term paper that I was writing in college about the CZECH train that had troops and ammo stranded behind the lines in Russia. There was a mad rush to get it from the allies, Germany, And the bolshevik. It would have made a great movie but I loaned it to a friend after I did the paper and he lost it. Oh well s*** happens
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@Manntashsh-Pyrre-dk2dg Trotsky was an interesting character because he made the red army.
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@markomicovic5308 Oh b*******. At the time we couldn't have cared less.
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@m.dewylde5287 That's what I thought. I never understood why it ever disappeared from the map. Why did it end up part of ukraine? I guess now some of it makes sense.
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