08.09.2024, Aleksandrovskoye.
Transdniestria in its attempts to stay with Russia has always obeyed the law, but it is the side that is accused of separatism, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist and philosopher Sergey Kurginyan said on August 23 on the program Conversation with a Sage on the Zvezda radio station.
The political scientist reminded that those who blame the first leader of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin for adding “the right of nations of self-determination up to separation” into the Constitution insist that he thus paved the way to the separation of the republics and made the disintegration of the country inevitable.
The philosopher explained that after the Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian empires collapsed, they had no right of nations for self-determination, and still they ceased to exist in their previous borders.
At the same time, the analyst stressed that if the disintegration of the USSR had followed the right of nations for self-determination that Lenin introduced as well as the legal framework that was implemented later, many regions would have stayed with Russia.
“In the last apparently democratic period of the existence of the Soviet Union we managed to adopt a law about the exit of the national republics from the USSR. And if they had exited according to this law as the only constitutional procedure, Crimea would have been ours, definitely. And not only Crimea, but entire Donbass would have been ours, Transdniestria would have been ours, because it had held a referendum,” the leader of Essence of Time stressed.
Kurginyan explained that, according to the adopted law, a referendum about exiting the USSR had to be held in all the territories, even the ones non-complimentary to this decision of the republic’s political center. The law also ensured Moscow’s rights to the Union’s property, bilinguality, and many other things.
“The law was naturally violated, and if there was anyone who tried to follow the law and who refered to various international precedents, that was Transdniestria,” the philosopher said.
The political scientist noted that Transdniestria was an exciting example of inter-ethnic peace, and it was a center of real right internationalism, and even after separation it refrained from any non-complimentarity towards either Moldavian or any other population.
“Nevertheless, the Transdniestrians were condemned as separatists. And this term stuck to them, because everything happened not according to the right law democratically adopted in the last period of the USSR, <…> but according to the insane Belovezha betrayal, which was absolutely non-constitutional, illegitimate, and could not be explained by anything but the idea that this was what the enemy needed, who had successfully infiltrated its agents in our country by then,” Sergey Kurginyan said.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
