The decision of the Soviet leadership to transfer the Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR was logical and justified.

This is on air "The Observer. LIVE "said Crimean historian and publicist Sergei Gromenko.

"In 1954 (the entry of the peninsula into the Ukrainian SSR. - Red. ) Nothing surprising happened, everything came to a logical unleashing of long-standing parallelism, when Ukraine and the Crimea united in the same borders. And in 1991, what Russians want to not remember, 54% of Crimeans, and even more in Sevastopol, voted for Ukraine's independence. Accordingly, there can be no talk about a bag of potatoes, - he said..

According to the historian, both people must draw the right conclusions from the current situation.

"And a hundred years after the beginning of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar revolution, we can say that both our people went one way to freedom. Because of the same circumstances, they did not reach him. Well, today we must take certain lessons so that this does not happen again, "he concluded..

As reported by the "Observer", in the occupied Crimea people complain of life in the occupation, and allegedly visitors from Syktyvkar write rave reviews.

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