Eye-witness Crimea
10 min readWhat we found in this historic peninsula on the Black Sea was a beautiful, almost idyllic place, with a bustling economy and a general sense of prosperity and hopefulness. We also found a people who seem quite content to remain a part of Russia just as Crimea has been, except for a brief interval, since 1783.
Yalta is a thriving tourist city. The palace where Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met is open for visitors. Russians who used to travel to West Europe are now traveling about their own huge country and Crimea is especially popular.
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