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Are the tankies in the room with you now? (vegantheoryclub.org)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This was the text (translated):

Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of a person of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, that renewed federation was what the New Union Treaty was supposed to bring about before being stopped. That's what they voted for.

Did you not read the article? It's right before that referendum text...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Note the lack of citation.

Also yeah Yeltsin was a real hero, just don't ask what he did after he bombarded parliament, and don't ask why the US had to interfere in former USSR elections including the 1996 Russian election to make sure that nationalists and not communists won.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

Note the lack of citation.

Do you think people just made up the referendum or are you under the impression it was about something else..?

They had already been negotiating a new treaty for a while and after difficulties with the republics Gorbachev put it to the people to gain popular support. What did you think the "renewed federation of equal sovereign republics" was about?