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What would happen if Nikita Khrushchev joined the Ukrainian SSR not only Crimea, but also extensive areas along the rivers Don and Kuban? Khrushchev could argue that in the past these were areas in a large percentage inhabited by Ukrainians:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians_in_Kuban

How would the collapse of the USSR look like then? Would Russia accept the loss of these strategically important areas?
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