Crimea is routinely described as “pro-Russian,” given that an estimated 58 percent of the population of two million is ethnic Russian, with another 24 percent Ukrainian and 12 percent Crimean Tatar.
Because Stalin deported, murdered or otherwise replaced people who used to live there.[1] Genocide works.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...