I got to butt in and say I like this conversation on Ukraine and the Crimea better than others I've looked into. For the most part, those have always seemed to take a socialist/communist perspective and made the whole ordeal into a battle against Fascism.

It would have been a legitimate perspective if the whole forum there wasn't populated by wanna-be Communists who get mad that statues of Lenin were toppled. Never mind he's no longer just a symbol of communism anymore. He's a symbol of Russia now.