Boris Yeltsin and his entourage of democrats unleashed and encouraged ethnic-nationalist feeling in the republics in an attempt to wrest central power from the communists – and succeeded instead in destroying the Soviet Union. When Ukraine used the center’s weakness to break away from its tyrannical older brother, the death knell soundedby ROMAN LABA AT THE FIRST PUBLIC MEETING OF […]
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