Prepare for the expulsion of Crimean Russians

In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav, in which Cossacks from eastern Ukraine pledged allegiance to the tsar.

During the ensuing decades of Soviet rule, such gerrymandering did not mean much — the Kremlin ruled all republics with an iron […] ...