2014 Ukrainian coup d'etat

The 2014 Ukrainian coup d'état, known in the bourgeois press as the Maidan Revolution, also called Euromaidan, was a CIA-backed fascist coup in Ukraine against president...

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The coup happened first in Feb 2014. Crimea succeeded and was annexed in March 2014. Crimea in 2014 was 68% ethnic Russians, with only 16% Ukrainian language speakers.

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Crimean leadership attempted to create an independent republic, but Crimea instead became an autonomous region in Ukraine in 1992. Ukraine abolished the constitution of Crimea in 1995 and allowed the Ukrainian central government to veto the Crimean parliament's chosen prime minister.

Crimea

Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe connected to the southern part of Ukraine. It is divided into the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol....

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So the far right uprising and coup is where this started. Then the occupation and civil war on Donbas started shortly after this in April 2014. The majority ethnic Russian oblasts did not wish to be persecuted by the western Ukrainian banderites.

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