MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft bill to the State Duma that would rewrite a chapter of history by nullifying the Soviet decision in 1954 to transfer Crimea from Russia to Ukraine.

The move appears aimed at establishing a legal basis for Russia to argue that Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula which it claims to have annexed from Ukraine in 2014, was never really part of Ukraine to begin with.

The draft, submitted by a lawmaker from each of Russia’s two houses of parliament, describes the 1954 handover as arbitrary and illegal because no referendum was held and Soviet authorities had no right to transfer territory from one constituent republic to another without consent.

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    9 months ago

    The draft, submitted by a lawmaker from each of Russia’s two houses of parliament, describes the 1954 handover as arbitrary and illegal because no referendum was held and Soviet authorities had no right to transfer territory from one constituent republic to another without consent.

    I’m pretty sure that there was no consent when Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022.

    So how’s it going to be? Is consent necessary or not when determining if land belongs to Russia id or not?

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      9 months ago

      Obviously consent as a concept is a Soviet beta male idea which was eliminated when Russia levelled up to sigma

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      Even if it was illegal and without consent, any reasonable government would put it to a vote.

      They are just straight up fucking idiots.