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Originally Posted by Mutt
Makes sense - the Russians wanted it to be referred to as a region of Russia the same way Americans call the middle states, 'THE MIDWEST', and Canadians call the Atlantic provinces 'THE MARITIMES'.
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Ukraine was a part of Russian Empire for 100's of years, so it
wasn't annexed by Soviet Union. It just became a part of Soviet Union as any other regions of Czarist Russia
