Thread: Crimea joining the Russian Federation and its implications?

Originally Posted by DDT

But if Russia took that line of thinking, where wold it stop? Then Russia would have to demand compensation back from the Tartars for all the times in history that Tartars trashed the Slavs! Besides, it was not the Russian Federation that deported the Tartars but the Soviet Union.

A nice line of thought. I think Russia should declare itself an inheritor of the Huns Empire and raise our claims to all of the Eastern and Middle Europe as far as Italy (Attila DID capture Rome after all).