Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Another Reason Crimea is Important to Putin


While vacationing in the Crimean peninsula, Gorbachev was ousted in a coup by Communist hard-liners on August 19, 1991. The coup soon faltered as citizens took to the streets of Moscow and other cities in support of Russian President Boris Yeltsin (pictured), who denounced the coup. Military units abandoned the hard-liners, and Gorbachev was released from house arrest. He officially resigned on December 25 as the Soviet Union was dissolved.

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The history of the Cold War
This is one of the many images at this site that are little thumbnails below the picture of Stalin, FDR and Churchill at Yalta that I found at this site. Each thumbnail picture if you click on it also has a caption of some incident of the Cold War there if you wish to see any or all of them.

I was noticing that since Putin thinks that the end of the Soviet Union was one of the Greatest Tragedies of the 20th Century, that his moving into Crimea in his bid to take back what was lost in the early 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed makes sense in this logical Russian Soviet way of thinking because to his thinking likely it was here in Crimea where he believes Gorbachev lost control of the Soviet Union and so it blew apart in literally every direction.

However, if we follow this logic then all the countries that became independent from Russia that had been a part of the Soviet Union he might wish to re-include in the new Russia.

Some of these countries were: 
Poland,

Czechoslovakia,

Georgia,

East Germany
Poland
Belarus
Ukraine
Slovakia
Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia?

and others. So, first we have to see if he keeps threatening people's lives and telling them they are now a part of Russia in Crimea and how far that is going to go without more blood being spilled. So far, we don't know of further bloodshed except on an individual basis police style. Will he do this throughout the Ukraine and then continue this in other independent nations as well? We'll see.

 

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