re: #352 FemNaziBitch

How many Crimean Wars have there been?

Only 1, but the the Crimea was the last area held by the ‘White’ (Czarist) forces during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army finally conquered the area in 1920 amid atrocities and mass executions.

Later, Sevastopol’s heavy fortifications let it hold out against the Germans for around months after the rest of the Crimea was overrun. It took the Germans till June, 1942 to finally take the city, which was left in ruins. Soviet offensives in late 1943 subsequently isolated the German forces stationed in the Crimea and they remained trapped til eliminated by a Soviet amphibious landing in April 1944.

The Crimea saw a great deal of war in the 20th century, and it was the worst kind of war.