Living there. Imagine Denmark all of the sudden giving Copenhagen to Ukraine, bam, now you are Ukrainian citizen. That's what basically happened with Crimea - it was always Russian, but mr Chruschev decided that it's not worth to keep these people fed and warm and instead of building infrastructure handled them over to other country
Originally Posted by Urban Dictionary
It has everything to do with it. Russia did not want to let their little buddies go, did they. They were so butt hurt, they decided to fight quite a lot of battles afterwards to try and force them back under their thumbs.
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So, you want to take away their freedoms, got it.