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Are the tankies in the room with you now? (vegantheoryclub.org)

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It died because after a referendum for its dissolution failed, there was a power struggle as the communists tried to prevent Yeltsin from doing it anyway, and Yeltsin ended up ordering tanks to fire on the parliament building until the communist pro-democracy forces surrendered.

I thought it was a hardliner coup that tried to stop implementation of the New Union Treaty that people voted for. Funny that they wanted to prevent the decentralization and ended up causing a total decentralization by way of making even this new union unpalatable.

Soviet Union had a single referendum and it immediately caused a coup and destruction of the whole Union. No wonder they didn't want to have them before lel

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

The new union treaty should have been stopped based on the results of the referendum, which overwhelmingly supported the maintaining of the current federal system.