Was there a cry for independence or was it engineered just by a minority helped by Russia?

 

It would seem that since the breakup of the Soviet Union, successive governments in the Ukraine have made a pig's ear of dealing with something which has been there from the start and bound to come to a head sooner or later.

 

This is interesting.

 

http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php?page=subject&SubjectID=1954crimea&Year=1954

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