BBCNEWS Political Thinking with Nick... June 4, 2024 01:39:00
People think you were saying, well, you know, it's not ideal that russia have moved in, but it's kind of understandable. what i couldn't understand was why, under khrushchev, the crimea was separated from russia and told it was part of the ukraine. at the time, people didn't notice because ukraine was part of the soviet union, albeit it had its identity as the ukrainian soviet socialist republic. but ukraine had always been part of russia, and it was also russia's naval base and all the rest of it. and so i always thought it was very odd that in the break—up of the soviet union, the relation...