Its easy to understand why Putin would covet and wish to annex - TopicsExpress



          

Its easy to understand why Putin would covet and wish to annex Odessa and other southeast Ukrainian cities, but calling them Russian cities evokes a history that never was. In the 1920s, when Vladimir Lenin made the region officially a part of Ukraine and granted the Ukrainian Socialist Republic a veneer of autonomy, he said he was doing so to avoid Great Russian imperialism and chauvinism. Vladimir Putin clearly sees nothing wrong with these traits.
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 18:00:27 +0000

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