The TRUE story of the Russian dam that blew up in Ukraine

The recent disaster is just the latest chapter in a 70-year-old story

The Nova Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power plant in better days [Source: Wikimedia Commons]

It’s all about Crimea, folks

The story of the Nova Kakhovka Dam started in 1950, when Josef Stalin ordered that a dam and a hydroelectric power plant be built to provide irrigation for the southern region of Kherson and critically needed fresh water and power to the Crimean peninsula.

Map showing the location of the Kherson Oblast, just above Crimea

Here’s what’s in this article

I have broken this rather long article into several Parts:

• Part 1: What Khrushchev did — this explains the historical significance of Crimea and how it came to become part of Ukraine.
• Part 2: What Yatsenyuk did — this explains the circumstances that caused Russia to annex Crimea in 2014
• Part 3: What Putin did — this explains Putin’s actions around Crimea since the launch of his “Special Military Operation”
• Part 4: What Zelensky did — this part discusses the actions taken by the Ukrainians that led up to the catastrophe at the Nova Kakhovka…