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I find it odd you now headline, as if it is a good thing, what are, if true, essentially Ukrainian military acts of aggression on Russia in an overwhelmingly Russian autonomous part of the Ukraine (a part, to be sure, which is an historical fiction; the ASSR only having been transfered by Stalin, of whom I imagine you are not a fan, in 1954).

Actually, it was Khrushev. 1954 was 300th anniversary of Pereyaslavskaya Rada. Khrushev was a Ukrainian - as was Brezhnev who headed his very own Dnepropetrovsk clan, BTW. Luckily enough, Brezhnev didn't continue the Stalin's and Khrushev's nice tradition of granting extra territories (in addition to top jobs) to their own peoples.
by Sargon on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 05:44:34 AM EST
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I stand humbly corrected.
by redstar on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 10:29:44 AM EST
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