Native History

Several people asked me to explain why there are so many "ethnic Russians" living outside of Russia. To put it simply. During Soviet times the areas of eastern Europe that became part of the USSR (mostly through invasion and occupation) had large amounts of their native populations (Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Crimean Tartars, Chechens, Moldovans, etc) deported from their homes to Siberia. The Soviets then sent in large amounts of ethnic Russians - considered by ...the "classless" Soviet society to be the best of the best of all the nationalities - to take their place. The reason that the ethnic Russians make up the majority of the Crimea, the Ukraine is because in May 1944 hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tartars were deported from the Crimea and sent to the Central Soviet Republics where around 45% of them died. In their place ethnic Russians were sent in. The Tartars were not allowed to return to their homes until just before the USSR collapsed in December 1991. The Russians created the "ethnic problem" in the first place and are now trying to use it to again justify their invasion, occupation and possible annexation of the Crimea (by creating a fake vote.) Hitler did the same to annex Austria in 1938 (a fake vote to "protect the ethnic Germans there" - I guess Putin is following Hitler's guidebook on invasions and occupations to the letter (anyone who knows a Russian also knows that the greatest insult you can call them is a Nazi (or as they say: a Fascist (Фашист), but if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck then it's a duck. You can't hold a legit vote when you are occupying the country and aiming tanks and guns at the people.