Zeman Says Crimea is Russia

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
September 9, 2016

Zeman served as the inspiration for the popular “Smug Pepe” meme.

Czech President Milos Zeman has said that though you could say on a technicality that Russia “annexed” Crimea, it is completely unreasonable to fault them for it, since Crimea has always been a part of Russia (and of course, the overwhelming majority of its population is Russian – and they voted overwhelmingly in favor of succession).

Khrushchev was unawares that the USSR was going to collapse when he gave a territory that had been a part of Russia for hundreds of years to the Ukraine.

RT:

The Crimean peninsula can never be returned to Ukraine, notwithstanding the fact that it was “annexed,” Czech President Milos Zeman said in answering a reader’s question in the Czech newspaper Parlamentni Listy.

“[Nikita] Khrushchev committed an unforgivable stupidity and the world’s politicians acknowledge today that Crimea cannot be given back to Ukraine,” Zeman said, referring to the Soviet leader who in 1954 made Crimea part of Ukraine, which was then a part of the Soviet Union.

At the same time, the Czech president stressed that he believed Crimea was, indeed, “annexed” by Russia in 2014.

“It is doubtless that agreements guaranteeing Ukraine’s territorial integrity were breached,” he said, responding to a question from a reader who argued that Crimea had historically been a part of Russia and was thus just “returned,” and not “annexed.”

Zeman had urged the EU to accept the Crimean Republic’s accession into the Russian Federation immediately after it took place in 2014, saying that no one should expect the region’s return to Ukraine in the foreseeable future.

He has also repeatedly spoken out against the anti-Russian sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU and US over Crimea and the Ukrainian crisis.

The question is, even if it was “illegal,” what difference does it make? Why does it even matter?

Especially given that the US and the EU funded a violent revolution which made Crimean independence necessary. It was clearly illegal for the West to fund the overthrow of an elected leader – which they did after they had failed to use propaganda to get the Ukrainian people to vote for an anti-Russian leader – and clearly a much more grievous offense.

What’s more, NATO had already set a precedent for this situation when they helped Albanian terrorists annex Kosovo in the ’90s. And that was through a bombing campaign.

I mean, come on.

This is so obviously just an excuse to provoke a war with Russia. Who on earth could possibly take it seriously? How are we even having this conversation?

Speaking of stupid conversations, Zeman is also one of the only high-ranking figure in the EU willing to point out the insanity of Merkel’s invasion agenda.