11.12.2020, Moscow.
The exit of the republics from the Soviet Union was performed in violation of the law, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time social political movement Sergey Kurginyan said on December 8 on the air of the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov TV program on the Russia One channel.
Kurginyan noted that, according to the law “On Secession from the USSR”, Transdniestria, which declared its right to self-determination, was acting in a perfectly legal manner. The people of Donbass and Crimea, who held referendums on their territories, had the right to exit, and Ukraine should have arranged it back in that period, which would have been in accordance with Western legal standards.
The same applies to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which “did not volunteer to stay in sovereign Georgia to be slaughtered there,” Sergey Kurginyan noted. The same applies to Nagorno-Karabakh, the political scientist added.
“They existed in the framework of a certain structure, which protected them. As soon as this structure is gone, they have the right to exit. And this right was provisioned in the law On Secession from the USSR,” the political scientist stressed.
Any speculations that “this is all based on the right of nations to self-determination” are not quite correct, he believes. “This is not the best right, I agree, although a number of empires collapsed without this right being in effect, like the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire etc. But we already had an secession law by that moment,” Kurginyan stressed.
According to this law, the political scientist reminded, the Baltic States, for example, should have given all the Union-level enterprises to Russia and ensured that the Russian population had equal rights. But this was never done.
“It [the collapse] was based not only on a blatant crime with no statute of limitations, because this law was not repealed. Everything about the disintegration of the Soviet Union is criminal. These people had no right to do this,” Kurginyan noted.
Then a chain of crimes followed, the political scientist reminded. The Congress of Peoples’ Deputies and the Supreme Soviet had no right to dismiss themselves; the parliaments had no right to do what they did without a referendum. Any referendums in the republics had no sense when referendums in Transdniestria, Crimea etc. were taking place in parallel, he explained.
“Everyone allegedly wants to follow Western examples. How did it take place in Canada? Quebec’s attempts were stopped with one phrase, ‘If Canada is divisible, then so is Quebec.’ Quebec shut up after this was said. If the Soviet Union is divisible, then so are the republics,” Kurginyan reminded of this international principle.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
