"But in name only" By the same logic, Crimea could never be Ukrainian more than 'by the name only'. [0] "a magical event happened which would finally give the

"But in name only" By the same logic, Crimea could never be Ukrainian more than 'by the name only'. [0] "a magical event happened which would finally give the peninsula a majority Russian population" There's nothing magical in Stalin's crimes which were condemned in the USSR and later in Russia many times. "The moment the mafia-like entities ... they naturally lost any right to the benefits of the North Crimean Canal" So you are justifying cutting water and electricity to the whole civilian population of Crimea by Russian support for pro-Russia separatists elsewhere? That's exactly what I was talking about when I said that the Ukraine lost any moral right to govern Crimea. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea