On this day, February 19, 1954 the Soviet Union transferred the Crimean Oblast from the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republican.
Nikita Khrushchev had become Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the previous year and stayed in the job until 1964.
It’s interesting that Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, just five days short of the 68th anniversary to the day since Crimea had been transferred to Ukraine.
It was also in February, this time 2014, that Russian troops moved into Crimea.
And it was also in February, February 2, 1943 that the Red Army was victorious in Stalingrad, now Volgograd.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly said that the breakup of the Soviet Union should never have happened.
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