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56.3% of Russians lament fall of the Soviet Union
MOSCOW, December 7.—The
disintegration of the Soviet Union 15 years ago has
revived controversial political debate with wounds
still open in sectors that supported the maintenance
of the conglomerate of nations.
The Bieloviezhski agreement,
signed on December 8, 1991 by the then president of
Russia, Boris Yeltsin; of Ukraine, Leonid Kravbchuk;
and Belorus, Stanislav Shushkevich, erased the
Soviet Union from the world map, where it had
figured since 1922.
The birth of the Community of
Independent States (CIS) was announced for December
21, 1991, but to date evaluations of that period are
contradictory.
The current debate, with nuances,
is taking place between those who consider the
crumbling of the Union inevitable and, on the other
side, those who interpret those acts as doing
irreparable damage and leading to the destruction of
a powerful multinational state, according to Prensa
Latina.
With a majority of the population
who laments the debacle of the early 90s, Russian
society remains polarized in terms of the role
played by Mikhail Gorbachev, ex-president of the
Soviet Union, and Yeltsin in that convulsive
process, qualified by the left as a conspiracy.
Interviewed on the subject of
commemorating that date, Viacheslav Kebich, head of
the Belarus government at that time, said that the
Russian delegation held the baton as the initiator
of the disintegrative treaty.
Fifteen years later, 56.3% of
Russians lament the collapse of the Soviet Union,
according to a survey by the Bashkirov and Partners
consultancy.
Among citizens of Russia, the
Ukraine and Belarus that sentiment brings together
69 out of every 100 persons interviewed by the
Euroasian Monitor agency.
Translated by Granma International
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