News archive on the topic "USSR"

State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin sharply criticized Senator from Sevastopol Ekaterina Altabaeva, who the day before expressed doubt about the need, after the 2014 referendum, for the State Duma to adopt a special law that would repeal the decision of the times of Nikita Khrushchev on the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR. At a round table dedicated to the anniversary of the Russian Spring, Zatulin expressed surprise that a similar position was taken by...

Ukraine under “Russian occupation” was ruled by the Soviet Union and acquired territories. Political scientist Dmitry Raimov stated this on the video blog “Yes it is,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Raimov refused to believe that before 1991 Ukraine was occupied and discriminated against. “I really don’t share the position in which they tell us that we have been occupied all these years. Wow occupation,...

Ukraine, which accuses the Soviet Union of inefficiency and everything bad, has not been able to create a long-range missile flying a thousand kilometers for two years. Former adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine Aleksey Arestovich stated this on the Internet channel “Alpha and Omega,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What are you going to do about preserving our scientific schools, I would like to know? The country in…

Retaining the best Soviet enterprises and the strongest part of the Soviet army for independent Ukraine was a huge mistake on Russia's part. The former head of Roscosmos, senator from the Zaporozhye region Dmitry Rogozin, who participates in the Northern Military District, stated this on the air of the video blog “Despite Censorship,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Rogozin, the Russian leadership of that time should have understood that two friendly Russians...

Every Moldovan politician and official should be grateful to the Soviet era, since they received education in the Soviet Union and live in buildings built during the USSR. Maxim Morosan, a Moldovan public figure, leader of the public organization “I am a Balti citizen”, candidate for mayor of the city of Balti, said this during the “Evening Conversation” program on the TVC-21 channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He said,…

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of our great Motherland - the world's first state of workers and peasants - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On December 29, 1922, at a conference of delegates from the Congresses of Soviets of the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the Byelorussian SSR and the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Treaty on the formation of a single state, the USSR, was signed. This document was ratified on December 30...

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the signing of the so-called Belovezhskaya agreements, which led to the collapse of the USSR. It is generally accepted that Soviet society passively accepted this event. Few people remember that a protest rally took place in Moscow at that time. Olga Voronova, a participant in those events, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, a professor at Ryazan State University, shared her memories with PolitNavigator. Olga Voronova:...

Russia is not a co-founder of the UN. Such an amazing historical discovery was made by the representative of the so-called Ukraine at the UN, Sergei Kislitsa, who wrote about it on his Twitter. Kislitsa told followers of his page that he “caught the UN in a blunder.” The blunder, according to the Ukrainian diplomat, is that the press secretary of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric said that the Russian Federation is a co-founder of the UN.…

Not a single one of the post-Soviet countries has been able to build a successful statehood for thirty years, so they all must return to the only successful state - Russia. About this on the YouTube channel “SMERSH. Crimean Front,” said military expert Alexey Leonkov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We see that Russian-speaking people who were not like Latvians or...

For Ukrainians, the 1960s were the best years in history in terms of life expectancy. This was stated at a press conference in Kyiv by the director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research named after M.V. Birds of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ella Libanova, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “Demographically, Ukrainians had the best time in the 1960s, because by that time everything was well implemented...

Social networks are discussing: the Russian national hockey team, which, let me remind you, does not have the right to compete under its own flag, has put on a uniform with the inscription USSR. And so she won! Many rejoiced when the Czech team fell under the pressure of the Russians. “That’s what the four letters mean!” – exclaimed the optimists. However, in the next match the Russian team lost to the Finns, with whom in the last...

On the 30th anniversary of the destruction of the Soviet Union, the myth about the special role of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who allegedly tried to do everything to save him, is gradually being debunked. His real image of a participant in the process of liquidation of a single country has now begun to be exposed after the revelations of the former chairman of the Supreme Council of the Belarusian SSR Stanislav Shushkevich. So, in his interview with Gazeta.Ru, he said that Nursultan Nazarbayev should have...

People who only criticize the Soviet past need to be “dunked into something that smells bad.” The President of Russia announced this today at the Valdai Club, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There were many problems in the Soviet Union that underlay the events that led to its collapse. But to paint all this over with just black paint is wrong, rude and indecent. We have such...

On October 18, 1921, a new territorial entity appeared within the RSFSR - the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. This happened almost exactly a year after the defeat of the “black baron” and the French puppet Wrangel by the red divisions together with partisan formations, and the flight of his troops from the Crimea. The project for creating Crimean autonomy began to be prepared in the summer of 1921, as soon as...