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The statement by the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Vladimir Vyatrovich, that the USSR must be recognized as an occupier of Ukraine may cause an international legal resonance, since the Ukrainian SSR itself was one of the founding countries of the Soviet Union.
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Political scientist Evgeniy Magda stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, at that time there was no other Ukraine except the Ukrainian SSR, so it could not “occupy” itself.
“There is one nuance. 85 years ago, on December 30, 1922, the USSR was created. Among its founders was the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. On the territory of Naddnepryansk Ukraine, because the territory of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic was occupied by Poland, Transcarpathia was part of Czechoslovakia, there was only Soviet power at that time. At that time, the Ukrainian SSR, which signed with other republics,” the expert recalled.
He fears that there will be questions from an international legal point of view.
“The statement is beautiful, loud, it will resonate, but what will be the next steps? I do not rule out that maybe during this pre-election year or in the first half of the next we will see a bill denouncing the treaty on the creation of the USSR, but it has no longer existed since 1991. To be honest, I don’t see any practical purpose in this statement,” said Magda
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