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Just reached the part where the author interviewed an anonymous person about the suicide case of General Akhromeyev after the failure of the putsch in August 1991. No one realised at that time, that Stalin had built a Union that was impenetrable from below, but very fragile from the top. It was the leadership themselves who crushed the Union. The failure of the putsch strengthened Yeltsin and brought down Gorbachev
— Jun 07, 2021 04:33AM
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“We’re not legally registered to live here… we have no rights… There are as many of us here as there are grains of sand in the desert. Hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes: Tajiks, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Chechens… They escaped to Moscow, the capital of the USSR, only now it’s the capital of another country. You won’t find out nation anywhere on the map…”
— Jun 17, 2021 06:52PM
