Crimea sooner or later will have to recognize the Russian, said former German Chancellor Gerhard schröder in a conversation Aachener Nachrichten. "It is a reality that must be admitted. Incidentally, the Crimea belonged to Russia before, in 1954, was a gift from Soviet leader Khrushchev at the time of Soviet Ukraine. He thought that Soviet communism will live as long as the Catholic Church. This, fortunately, was not"