Czech The Facts

From UNIAN:
"Crimea cannot be returned to Ukraine, Czech president says - NYT"

Ukraine cannot get back the Crimea peninsula, although Russia took it by annexation, Czech President Milos Zeman was quoted as saying, according to The New York Times. "An annexation means breaching international agreements and it is doubtless that agreements guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity were breached," Zeman said in a response to a reader's question published by www.parlamentnilisty.cz, NYT reported. "On the other hand, I agree with you that (Soviet leader Nikita) Khrushchev made an unforgivable silly thing and world's politicians acknowledge today that Crimea cannot be given back to Ukraine," Zeman said. He did not specify who those politicians were. Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1954. The Czech government, which has the main say in the foreign policy of the EU country, has followed the common stance of the bloc regarding the sanctions on Russia. Zeman has spoken out against the EU sanctions and has regularly expressed pro-Russian views. He was the only Western leader to attend the May 2015 celebrations in Moscow to mark the end of World War Two.  The Czech president earlier said he did not rule out his visit to Moscow as early as this year or in 2017.

^ It seems that the Czech President doesn't even know his own country's history when he made this statement. Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland making it an integral part of the Third Reich before they occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia. 6 years later that annexed territory was returned to a now liberated Czechoslovakia. So a territory that is annexed illegally can be returned. There are numerous other cases throughout history (like Nazi Germany annexing the country of Luxembourg and then Luxembourg becoming independent.) Zeman is just overly pro-Russia (he joined the Communist Party in 1968 when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia when most Czech Communists were fleeing the Party and the Soviet Union.) It seems his old sentiments haven't simply disappeared even though the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia has. You can be a Rusophile - I am - but that doesn't mean you have to blindly follow and like everything Russian the same with any country/culture. ^

http://www.unian.info/politics/1513174-crimea-cannot-be-returned-to-ukraine-czech-president-says-nyt.html