What's the history of Crimea? 🇷🇺🇺🇦

From the Crimean War in the 1850s between France, the UK, the then Ottoman Empire, and Russia, to the Russo-Ukrainian conflicts of the 21st century, Crimea has long been a site of geopolitical contention. What makes this peninsula so important?

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Firstly, its geographic location. Crimea commands the access routes between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Secondly, it is the location of the largest Russian naval base in the Black Sea, Sevastopol. As a warm water port, it allows fleet basing and power projection year-round.

Crimea after World War 2 was part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR). Transferred to the Ukrainian SFSR in 1954, it became part of an independent Ukraine upon the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

As a result of this history, the Russians maintained a lease on the Sevastopol naval base even into 2014. Concerns over the long-term viability of this avenue of power projection, however, may have prompted the Russian military intervention and occupation of Crimea in that year. The rest, as they say, is history.

[fchxses]

🇷🇺「it belongs to me !」
🇺🇦「they are with me. give it back 」
🇹🇷「Russia took it from me 」
🇲🇳「before you, it was mine」
🇬🇷「you guy are all wrong! it was part of
🇮🇹「yes, it was mine originally, as
Roman empire」
🇬🇷「close inough, but before that,
we created colony there, in the ancient times, end of the discussion, it is mine」
crimia「why can't I have my own nation😢」

[GeneralGrievousCIS]

"May have"

I know it's a short, but it may be worth noting that the elected pro-Russian President of Ukraine, Yanukovych, was overthrown by the western backed Maidan risings in 2014. Given that, I'm assuming it was pretty obvious to the Russians they were going to lose their base in Crimea unless they did something asap. It was also pretty annoying to a lot of Crimeans (and people in the Donbass) who voted for Yanukovych just to see western Ukraine overthrow him anyway.

History is complicated

[Kazan-knight]

Maybe if it was never Given to the ukrainian ssr, this war would have never happened, and russian and ukraine would still be allies to this day

[bastikolaski]

The people on crimea are voted for Russia, we have to respect this. Or we are against democracy?

[mozgoebator]

А почему вы про майдан не сказали? Почему не сказали что Крым сначала отсоединился от Украины вследствие переворота, а потом уже присоединился к России? Очень удобно: вторглась, оккупировала ….

[anthonyminimum]

I hate the shade of blue you chose for Russia, it matches with the water and makes it look like Russia sank into the ocean

[JohnJohnson-mtyt]

This is the news briefing for all main stream media about crimea - they’re not allowed to talk about the fact that the people of Crimea never wanted to be part of Ukraine in 1991 and voted for autonomy several times from then up until 2014 when they finally got their wish. It’s in Wikipedia unless they’ve scrubbed it after 2022 for political reasons,

[johnlockett]

Crimea has been Russian since 1783 and it is populated by Russian people together with some small minorities. It was a Naval and Military base. and the lease with the Gov. of Ukraine was finishing in 2017 and was not going to be renewed and in place the Ukrainian Gov. was going to lease it to NATO. Putin said I don't want GI's in Crimea. Plus the Donesk problem with the Ukraine Gov. Aren't good reason to invade?.

[brq_]

Firstly, Ukrainian SSR and independent Ukraine occupied Sevastopol from 1954, please, don't say that Russian SFSR transfered entire Crimea to Ukrainian SSR - that's lie, because only Crimean oblast of RSFSR was transfered, and Sevastopol was a Сity ​​of republican subordination since 1948, but Ukraine took it without reason. Secondly, in time from 20th-23rd February to 18th March, 2014 in Crimea there's no any "occupation". You can't even proof, that armed people in this time were Russian troops.

[subz]

Historically The Russians had Crimea first right after the Romans and Then Russia passed Crimea to Ukraine as they not only had the land connection to the island, It helped them immensely with their economy during the period after the famine which claimed the lives of several million Ukrainians. Discussing the reasons why Russia retook Crimea in 2014 is just as you explained that it gives Russia the control of the Black Sea but also you didn’t mention that the citizens of Crimea wanted it to become a part of Russia… There were ongoing political issues inside the territory of Ukraine with the so called Ukrainian revolution when Petro Poroshenko was elected president.. The civilians didn’t want to be a part of Ukraine and recognized themselves as Russian so they reached out to Kremlin and Vladimir Putin. Putin saw the opportunity as it benefited both Russia and the Russian civilians of Crimea.

[mirbalochkhan]

Discussing crimea and forgetting crimean khanate is like discussing Ukraine and forgetting cossack Hetmanate.No matter if you are russian or Ukrainian if you live in crimea you should be proud on the history of crimea .Crimean goths, Crimean greeks and Crimean tatars these all people together make up the crimean khanate and crimean tatars were the results of intermixing between goths, Greeks and tatars that is why crimean Tatars don't look like mongols.There are also many other Turkic people like Pechanigs, khazars, cummans which rule crimea

[Too-Odd]

Crimea has been part of Russia since before the United States existed. The Russians fought Crimean Tatars and the Ottoman Empire for this region. It has never been a majority Ukrainian territory, and Ukraine never conquered Crimea in any conflict.

Nikita Khrushchev transferred the administration of the Autonomous Oblast of Crimea to the Ukraine SSR in 1954, as a goodwill gesture for 300 years of Ukraine and Russia being one indivisible state, and the majority Russian population had no say in it.

When the Soviet Union began to collapse, Crimea asked the Supreme Soviet to allow Crimea to be its own SSR. When that failed, Crimea seceded from Ukraine, but Russia would not back them up, as Ukraine was a founding member of the CIS.

After the US backed Maidan coup in Ukraine in 2014, Crimea once again seceded, and this time Russia supported them, sent in military units, and allowed Crimea to rejoin with Russia. 70% of the population of Crimea is Russian with another 10% speaking only Russian at home.

[megaaizul]

woww such an interesting conflict, someone should right a poem about it or something

[Dontbelievein_lies]

USA President Biden Claiming Crimea belong to him through Ukraine 😂

[illuminat]

Ахаха, русскоговорящие, моё послание вам, вы бы знали как приятно когда твой родной город(я с рождения живу в Севастополе, 6-7 лет из которых- в Украине) на серьезном ебале обсуждает половина англосаксонского интернета.
Лично для меня это показатель того, что все идёт правильно. По крайней мере здесь, в Крыму.

[bodhinorris]

Alright y'all aren't mature enough for Crimea, it's Greece's now. Welcome to NATO boys.

[TheHunterOfYharnam]

First state of the region:Greek
First native people (continuously inhabited):Greeks
Longest time under which people?:Greeks

Crimea is neither ukrainian nor Russian
It is Greek

[HanabangIrawan-nuuo]

Majority in crimea was russian, and the peoples always pro.russia, its actualy like that, kruschev give crimea to ukraine for just sharing not for take over, the legal country was russia teritory

[mbzkhqk]

Idk I feel like Crimea would be cool as its own country, maybe I just like the name

[naslialtorik]

Crimea was originally iran believe it or not