On March 17th 1991, the referendum on the preservation of the USSR was held. we are commemorating the event with a series of posts at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”, as well as publications here and at our Odysee and Rumble channels.
The question at the referendum was formulated as follows:
“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 people of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?”
113.5 million people voted in favour of preserving the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, that is, almost 78% of those who voted.
In accordance with Art. 29 of the USSR Law “On National Voting” of December 27th 1990 No. 1869-I, a decision made through a referendum of the USSR is final and can be cancelled or changed only through a new expression of the will of the peoples of the USSR.
“The fate of the peoples of the country is inseparable; only through joint efforts can they successfully resolve issues of economic, social and cultural development”, stated the official commentary of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
On November 6th 1991, Yeltsin banned the Communist Party throughout Soviet Russia.
On December 8th, the will of citizens to live in a single multinational state was cynically and brazenly trampled on, when in Belovezhskaya Pushcha Yeltsin, Kravchuk and Shushkevich, without any legal authority to do so, with the criminal inaction of Gorbachev, secretly signed an agreement from the people that “The USSR as a subject of international law and as a geopolitical reality ceases to exist”.
On December 25th Yeltsin officially dissolved the Soviet Union. Next day, USSR to longer existed.
Word to the Rector — on the disappearance of the CIS documents
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Russia is the legal successor of the USSR on the territory of all the Union republics.
The originals of the Beloveza Agreements have been destroyed. No one can find them. There were only some private drafts and supposedly copies of the original text. The first public announcement that the document had disappeared appeared in 2012.
The former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, Witold Fokin, the last surviving signatory of the Belovezha Agreements, has repeatedly stated in interviews that he regrets the disappearance of the original, and also claimed that the signed document contained completely different provisions than those that remained in the “copies.” In particular, the new union of states was to be called not a Commonwealth, but a Union of Independent States with a common strategic defense system, uniform tariffs, and free movement of goods and passenger traffic.
All the other participants in the signing of the Belovezha Agreements also claimed that they did not know where the original was. Moreover, their stories about the contents of the document were quite different from each other.
Existing copies of the document, contrary to all the rules, do not have signatures on each of the five pages, signatures are only on the last one. No one knows for sure what provisions were or could have been on other pages of the original Belovezha Agreements and how many of them there were. But those papers that are presented to humanity as evidence of the collapse of the USSR cannot be qualified as a genuine historical document.
If we look at the signing of the Belovezha Agreements from the point of view of the Criminal Code of the USSR, which lasted until December 31, 1996 inclusive, then there is one of the most serious crimes under art. 64. High treason:
a) High treason, that is, an act intentionally committed by a citizen of the USSR to the detriment of sovereignty, territorial integrity or state security and the defense capabilities of the USSR… is punishable by imprisonment for a term of ten to fifteen years with confiscation of property or the death penalty with confiscation of property.
If the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation had won in October 1993 in the confrontation with Yeltsin and his henchmen, Yeltsin and the other signatories of the Belovezha Agreements, who illegally destroyed the state and seized power, would have faced the inevitable death penalty. It was probably during those days that one of the participants in the signing of the agreements hurried to get rid of the evidence by destroying the original document.
But the most pressing issues at the moment are the status of the USSR’s legal successor and the international legal status of all former Soviet republics. Neither the dubious “copy” of the Belovezha Agreements, nor any other official documents record the transfer of the status of the successor of the USSR to Russia. A letter to the United Nations signed by Yeltsin stating that “The Russian Federation fully retains all the rights and obligations of the USSR in accordance with the UN Charter, including financial obligations” is not a legitimate basis for the transfer of rights.
The withdrawal of the Union republics from the USSR also occurred in complete disregard of the law. None of the republics followed the withdrawal procedure prescribed in the USSR Law of April 3, 1990 No. 1409-I “On the procedure for resolving issues related to the withdrawal of the Union Republic from the USSR.” Thus, the international legal status of all former Soviet republics is illegal and incomplete.
Russia needs to declare that it is the legal successor of the USSR, and moreover with all the territorial entities that were part of the Soviet Union. On this basis, Russia should declare to the UN that all conflicts, claims and problems on the territory of all former Soviet republics are exclusively internal problems of Russia as the legal successor of the USSR.
— Dmitry Rode
This material at “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.