WI: No gifting of Crimea in 1954?

What if, for whatever reason, Khruschev never transfers Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR?
I doubt it'd have major impact before the collapse of the SU, but after collapse of the Union(let's be deterministic here) there would be a more western-leaning Ukraine, if a bit smaller, and stronger Russian presence in the Black Sea.
What effects would it have on Russia and neighbouring states? I doubt it'd stop the rise of authoritarianism in Russia, or the strategy of solving internal problems by refocusing public opinion on external "successes" once economy begins to lag.
On the other hand, without such a symbolic target as Crimea could it help the 2011-2013 protest movement if Russia decides to annex something else? What, though?
This would have little effect on 1990 and beyond as the population there just isn't significant compared to Ukraine and USSR/Russia as a whole. Plus Sebastapol was never really under Ukraine management. But now, suppose Ukraine had kept manufacturing those magnificent Tu-160s and started selling them to the USoA in 1990. Would have solved our B-52 age problem.
 
Part of my family from Donbass whose story I told wasn't forced to change their ethnicity. It was done for them, they had no say in it.
This is not what your story described, it was a changing of names (with the caveat that two different versions of names were used in Soviet passports). Also strange how the Donbass has remained predominantly Ukrainian (at least outside of the cities) if the Soviets were so determined to change people's ethnicity.
 
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