User blog comment:EthanConquistador/Crimean Crisis/@comment-5590986-20140319214035/@comment-5593482-20140322212307

Think about it this way, without history no country would exist at all. History is recorded events, our past, the past of the earth and countries that made it what it is today. If we pretend that history doesn't exist, doesn't that give all the more pretext for countries to invade each other because then they have no strong claims of sovereignty to the land? Does examples are meaningless because even though the Austrian Habsburgs reigned over Hungary, the Hungarian people never gave up their Hungarian national identity. Quite the contrary to Crimea, where even though it was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR, it was never speculated that Ukraine should declare independance. Russia has both Historical and Ethnic rights to Crimea. As for Kaliningrad/Köningsberg, the Germans that were living there are long gone and the city itself has being completely rebuilt.