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Belarus

Country in Eastern Europe; a founding republic of the Soviet Union, independent since 1991.

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Also known as
Byelorussia, Belorussia
In Belarus

Belarus was a founding republic of the Soviet Union in 1922 and the place where the Belovezha Accords ended it in 1991.

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  • Soviet Union 30 Dec 1922 founding republic (Byelorussian SSR) Primary record 1

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Timeline 2 dates
  1. 30 Dec 1922 Belarus founded Soviet Union
  2. 1991 Stanislav Shushkevich head of Belarus
Proof 4 sources
  1. Declaration of Union and Treaty of Union, December 30, 1922, Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, Michigan State University, 30 Dec 1922. Primary record
    The Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic (RSFSR), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (USSR), the Belorussian Socialist Soviet Republic (BSSR) and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republics (Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia), hereby conclude a treaty for their union
  2. Stanislau Shushkevich, First Leader Of Independent Belarus, Dead At 87, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 4 May 2022. Scholarship & press
    On December 8, 1991, Shushkevich, then the chairman of parliament, met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk
    met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk at a resort in a forest in western Belarus
  3. Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union: Signed, Sealed, and Delivered?, Law Library of Congress (In Custodia Legis), 8 Jan 2013. Scholarship & press
    This was the Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union, which was adopted 90 years ago on December 30, 1922, by representatives from Belarus, Russia, Transcaucasian SFSR (Transcaucasia, aka South Caucasus), and Ukraine.
  4. Stanislau Shushkevich, chairman of Belarus's Supreme Soviet (1991-1994): Russia & Me interview transcript, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Feb 2016. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    By signing the Belavezha Accords in the Russian president's hand and ratifying them in the Russian parliament, Russia has for the first time since 1794 recognized the independence of its adjacent colony Belarus.
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