The union is indestructible. Was the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 predetermined

Dismantling of the monument to Vladimir Lenin in Riga, 1991. Photo: Imago / Global Look Press

When viewed from our time, it usually seems to be a simple and natural process. Some of the observers believe that the great power was ruined artificially on the instructions of our foreign enemies. The other part considers the collapse of empires an objective pattern, and therefore does not see anything strange in the death of the Soviet Union. However, we must take into account that thirty years ago we approached the Belovezhsky agreements after a number of important events that radically changed the state of affairs in the country. And although the probability of the long life of the USSR in the post -perestroika period was small, the transformation that happened in December 1991 was still not predetermined hard.

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