pff, ridiculous comment. a region doesn't have the right to attach itself to another state.
think about it. a bunch of russians move to somewhere near grand canion, do a referendum and then proclaim it russian territory.
think about it. a bunch of russians move to somewhere near grand canion, do a referendum and then proclaim it russian territory.
My home country for instance is the "United Kingdom" which is made of up of countries/territories that unified many hundreds of years ago.
There's other examples such as the formation of Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_unification
However, if it's not annexation it's probably better described as "ceding"; an American example: France ceded Louisiana to the United States by the treaty of Paris, of April 30, 1803. Spain made a cession of East and West Florida by the treaty of February 22, 1819.
Cessions have been severally made of a part of their territory by New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.
Crimea was called Crimean Khanate at that time and the backbone of its economy was the slave trade. As a major slave trade hub it has seen many hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians captured by Crimean Tatars and sold to Turkey until Catherine the Great's counter-terrorist operation finally put an end to it in 1783 :)
This dramatic history rooted in inability of the Crimean Khanate peacefully coexist with Russia can hardly be compared with a single action of a Soviet bureaucrat in Moscow in 1954.
And you are misinformed, Crimeans Tatars are not the indigenous population, they are a remnant of the Golden Horde.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...
Nonetheless, the deportation of Crimean Tatars by Stalin in 1944 is a crime and has been repeatedly recognized as such by the modern Russia.
"Most of the Russian population in Crimea are second/third generation settlers"
Even the biased Wikipedia article you linked to doesn't support that.
Edit: please don't edit your comments after they have a reply. Thank you.
I wouldn't call it 'greatly affected'.
Lots of people died as a result of the deportation. The uprooting inhibited the natural population growth over the years. Lots of Crimean Tatars now live outside of Crimea.