The Baltic states were the ones that really wanted to get Country Email List out the fastest and the ones that had a popular opinion that strongly supported the separatist leaders. The leaders of Georgia and Armenia were also moving toward exit in 1990-1991, with the support of Country Email List public opinion in their republics. But that was not the case in Ukraine. Ukraine left the ussr at the last moment, along with Russia (under Boris Yeltsin), and largely following Russia's example. The death blow for the ussrIt came as Yeltsin, Ukrainian leader Leonid Kravchuk, and the Belarusians told Soviet Country Email List President Gorbachev that the three Slavic republics were leaving, leaving Gorbachev presiding over the empty shell of the USSR.Do you think that Putin may be looking for a regime similar to Lukashenko's in Belarus for Ukraine?
If that's what you want, I don't think you'll get it. What it has caused, in fact, is Country Email List the opposite. He has achieved a kind of consolidation of a sense of Ukrainian nationality separate from and hostile to Russia. And that sense of belonging to that Ukrainian nationality has to include the many ethnic Russian citizens who live in Ukraine. One of the most striking aspects of Country Email List he media coverage of the invasion of Country Email List Ukraine is that no one has mentioned, in discussing the destruction and brutal bombing of Mariupol, that half the people who live there are of Russian origin. According to the last census.
44% of people of Russian origin lived in Mariupol. So these are Country Email List Russians who, along with the Ukrainians, are suffering from the trauma of war and who, presumably, largely in response to this invasion and hostility, they identify with the project of the Ukrainian state. Country Email List Even before the invasion, I would have been very skeptical that the idea would have crossed Putin's mind that he could lead the whole of Ukraine to a position like Belarus. He already tried Country Email List it before.