Stories will come out....
When? In eight years, not one person showed up on American TV and said let me tell you about the terror and the executions of the no voters in Crimea.
Now, children, we will discuss the meaning and the proper use of the word "irony" and its derivatives.
It is ironic that the bad and evil USSR simply let those republics that wanted to go go. Just like that, with all the power of the Soviet army and the very mean KGB still around.
Ukraine was one of those republics that benefitted from the hands-off Kremlin nasties.
Now, years later, the same process of letting go is bad. Veeeery baaaad and those who want to be free from the oppressive central government are called "separatists". Not freedom fighters. Oh, no. It's "separatists". I don't have to tell you, dear children, that "separatists" are very bad people in the minds of the Uk central government and their bosses in DC.
So, irony, if you missed it so far, is that Ukraine is now very much against letting the unhappy Russians go their own way having done the same some three decades earlier.
Cookies are, as always, in the back of the room.