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Several different governments controlled the Crimean Peninsula during the period of the Soviet Union, from the 1920s to 1991.The government of Crimea from 1921 to 1936 was the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, [c] which was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR); the name was altered slightly to the Crimean Autonomous ...
German Panzer IV tank and soldiers in the Crimea, 1942.. The Crimean campaign was conducted by the Axis as part of Operation Barbarossa during World War II.The invading force was led by Germany with support from Romania and Italy, while the Soviet Union took up defensive positions throughout the Crimean Peninsula.
[5] [6] On 1 June, the Crimean SSR joined in military union with soviet republics in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, and Latvia. [6] The republic was declared to be a non-national entity based on the equality of all nationalities. [5] Nationalization of industry and confiscation of the land of landlords, kulaks, and the church were ...
The military history of Russia has antecedents involving Kievan Rus' and the Rus' principalities that succeeded it, the Mongol invasion of the early 13th century, Russia's numerous wars against Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Sweden, and Ottoman Empire, Prussia (Seven Years' War), France (especially the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War).
According to the Moscow Times, Russia has been training sea mammals since the Soviet era. In the late 1960s, the Soviet Union used the port of Sevastopol as a base to train dolphins and whales to ...
Throughout its time in the Soviet Union, Crimea underwent a population change. Because of alleged collaboration with the Germans by Crimean Tatars during World War II, all Crimean Tatars were deported by the Soviet regime and the peninsula was resettled with other peoples, mainly Russians and Ukrainians.
In the following year Crimea joined the Soviet Union as a part of Russia (the RSFSR). After the Second World War and the 1944 deportation of all of the indigenous Crimean Tatars by the Soviet government, the Crimean ASSR was stripped of its autonomy in 1946 and downgraded to the status of an oblast of the Russian SFSR.
The Crimean resistance movement during World War II refers to various decentralised groups who resisted the occupation of Crimea by Nazi Germany during World War II. Also often referred to by the term Crimean partisans, the resistance movement in the Crimean peninsula formed a significant part of the Soviet partisan movement during World War II, and included many of the peninsula's various ...