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Point of divergence: Following the overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev declared the 1954 transfer of Crimea to be null and void, pushing for the immediate return of the Crimean Oblast from the Ukrainian SSR back to the Russian SFSR.