Ukraine Thread

[Gilrandir]

Writ large, the Russian claim is based on Hungary and Czechoslovakia having been Soviet responses to "internal" dissent -- they had a right to squash them because they were REALLY just provinces -- and that the "province" of East Germany really still belongs to Russia as the inheritor of the Soviet Union.

Yet Hungary and Czechoslovakia were never officially accepted as members of the USSR, while DDR was made into a part of another country.

In short, this is just political theater.

... aimed to justify what Russia did with the Crimea using the kettle-pot approach.