Crimea and adjacent territories were united in the Crimean Khanate during the 15th to 18th century, and fell to the Russian Empire, as the Taurida Oblast in 1783. The Soviet Crimean Oblast became the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within newly-independent Ukraine in 1991. The status of Sevastopol was disputed by the Russian Federation, and only after a lengthy process was it declared a "city with special status" within Ukraine in a Russian-Ukrainian treaty in 1997.
In 1783, at that time stalin wasn't around , And in a not too distant past the Sioux and other native tribes were roaming the prairies in the US , after which they were mostly slaughterd
In 1783, at that time stalin wasn't around , And in a not too distant past the Sioux and other native tribes were roaming the prairies in the US , after which they were mostly slaughterd