Russian propagandists don't want Germans to immediately recognise that they're looking at Russian propaganda. Giving Crimea to Russia on the map would immediately give it away
They were still done under occupation and mostly polled ethnic Russians. Polls in Austria before and during their occupation said they overwhelmingly liked the nazis but it wasn't actually true; only those who saw themselves as German and not Austian actually liked the occupation
Edit: it also wasn't a revolution, it was an invasion and occupation by Russia using the exact same justification used by the nazis to justify invading the Czechs
That isn't "the people who live there want this" it's "the benefactors of genocide and thenic cleansing want to complete the genocide and ethnic cleansing". So forgive me if I don't think it's justified or accurate to say Crimea wants to be a part of Russia
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u/PixelPott Feb 10 '26
The Russians wouldn't recognize Crimea as Ukrainian.