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- From: jason@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jason Merrill)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet,talk.politics.cis
- Subject: Re: Back to actual politics
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.175024.1145@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:50:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.185753.17446@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
- > That's bullshit: Armenia was the republic most
- > reluctant of all to secede
-
- Nonsense. When Gorbachev held a nationwide referendum on March 17, 1991 to
- determine the future of the USSR, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and the Baltic
- states all voted to secede from the union, so that Yeltsin's 9+1 treaty
- didn't include them.
-
- > If not the Eltsin's trick to overthrow Gorbi
- > (he made agreement with other republics that USSR
- > is no more) I am pretty sure that they would be still
- > in USSR (and probably only Russia else :).
-
- Yeltsin's agreement with the leaders of Russia, the Ukraine, Byelorussia,
- and Kazakhstan was only to the effect that the four of them would form a
- new union regardless of what Gorbachev did. Note that Armenia was not part
- of this agreement. Furthermore, this agreement led to the drafting of the
- 9+1 treaty on April 23, 1991. This treaty gave the individual republics
- much more power, and was one of the primary causes of the August putsch,
- but maintained the USSR nonetheless. It was only because of the coup
- attempt that the USSR dissolved completely so soon.
-
- (Source: Smith, Hedrick. The New Russians. New York: Avon Books, 1991.
- pp. 612-615)
-
- --
- Jason Merrill
- jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
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