This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine… In 1954 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, signed Crimea over to Ukraine as a gesture of goodwill. Galina was 14 at the time. “Illegal,” she said, when asked about the handover. “There was no referendum. … Continue reading A Jewel in Two Crowns: Crimea
