The explanation I heard: Kruschev’s political past was in Ukraine (he was a high ranking official in the communist party there), and he wanted to do his home republic a favor by transferring them the naval base at Sevastapol, along with state funds that went with it.
Why Gorbachev did it, when he was all of 23 years old, is something I don’t know.
And just think, they could have kept it all if they hadn’t let fascist dipshits into power. (I say “let,” but we all know what three-letter, non-Ukrainian agency was really behind the unaptly-named “revolution of dignity”).
The explanation I heard: Kruschev’s political past was in Ukraine (he was a high ranking official in the communist party there), and he wanted to do his home republic a favor by transferring them the naval base at Sevastapol, along with state funds that went with it.
Why Gorbachev did it, when he was all of 23 years old, is something I don’t know.
Giving land to Ukraine was a popular pasttime, Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev all given them a lot.
And just think, they could have kept it all if they hadn’t let fascist dipshits into power. (I say “let,” but we all know what three-letter, non-Ukrainian agency was really behind the unaptly-named “revolution of dignity”).