03.07.2022, Moscow.
Russia should investigate whether Lithuania’s exist from the USSR was legitimate, and it should condemn the Belavezhye Accords before the West undertakes a hard blockade of the Kaliningrad region, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on June 29 in an interview to the ONT Belarusian TV channel.
According to Kurginyan, Russia still can maneuver, e.g. try to soften the transport blockade regime, organize shipments of the necessary goods by ferries etc.
“I believe [there will be] no dead permanent boycott threatening to Kaliningrad region. This is not something this collective Western ‘mob boss’ can afford today. Not yet. He will do so a little later,” Kurginyan said.
The analyst and political scientist noted that Russia has seven months until a tough boycott of Kaliningrad region, and Russia must use this period to investigate whether Lithuania’s exit from the USSR was legitimate as well as to revise its position on the Belavezhye Accords.
“What are Belavezhye Accords? This is a violation of the Helsinki Accords, the undermining of the European security etc., because the democratically elected Congress of the People’s Deputies of the USSR adopted a law regulating the procedure of the Union republics’ exit from the USSR, and Lithuania could follow that law,” the political scientist reminded.
According to the law on the exit from the Soviet Union, a number of procedures had to be performed. In particular, referendums in the parts of the republics that would wish to remain in the USSR had to be carried out, as it was alter done in Transdniestria. Also, any Union-owned assets had to be handed over to a subject “assuming the functions of the Union,” and they “should have exited with very strong restrictions on the language etc.,” Kurginyan explained.
“The appropriate exit procedure, which no one would have followed, was ruined by the Belavezhye Accords, but not by Lenin,” the political scientist stressed. “Therefore, this issue has to be raised, including on what conditions Lithuania exited the way it did. Who arranged this? How could some State Council do anything when there was the Constitution and the law? Why did they have to be violated?”
Sergey Kurginyan noted that the State Committee on the State of Emergency (Russian: GKChP), even if its organizers are recognized as criminals, could in now way override the Congress of the People’s Deputies and the Constitution of the USSR.“Their violation is the skeleton in the closet of the empire’s collapse, and it must be revealed. This issue must be addressed. They will brush it off. It does not matter! All this scope must be timely examined in detail,” the political scientist believes.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
