Re: BoJo picks a fight with Russia.
Originally Posted by
Percy Vere
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Thanks for that Zaphod, East European political history was never my strongest subject.
O M G, I dread to think what would happen beyond the running battles in the streets and home-made bombs exploding all over.
But that's what has happened over the past century in not only the Crimea, but in many former Soviet bloc countries.
In 1900 over a third of Crimeans were descended from Tatars, the largest proportion of the area.
By the last census two thirds were instead descended from Russians; the original peoples have been displaced.
They tried the same tactic in Kazakhstan apparently where a few of my friends are from but failed; after seeing the number of Russians rise from 11% to well over 40% after WWII it has fallen to below 20% now and is still shrinking.
I've been told that the plan was to breed the ethnic minorities out in order to promote Russian influence and although it's only heresay, the evidence by numbers would suggest that to be true.
The result is pretty much what you suggest; the extreme dissatisfaction of the original inhabitants is leading to anti-Russian reactions in places like Ukraine and Georgia, even now.
ETA that of course under Soviet rule any dissent was immediately and forcefully squashed.
What bombs might have come from disaffected citizens wouldn't have been high in number before the force of a dictatorial regime rendered continuation impossible.
Look at Navalny for example and things seem not to have changed very much.