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Originally Posted by Manfap
Gifted to Ukraine 60 years ago by Stalin.
Historically though.. Russian.
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Nope. Stalin gave them the territories that were annexed from Poland, Hungary and Romania. So Western Ukrainians still live on the occupied territories. Crimea was joined to the Soviet Socialistic Republic of the Ukraine by Khrushchev. Check the Ukrainian map:
The pink area is the Ukraine when it has joined Russia in 1654 to avoid Turkish genocide (Russia was the only country which was able to protect them). The yellow part was gifted to the Ukraine by Russian czars, the blue part was gifted to the Ukraine by Lenin, the green one was gifted by Stalin and only Crimea was gifted by Khrushchev in 1954. So almost the whole Ukraine is actually Russia (excepting the territories annexed by Stalin from other countries).