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Union republics' right to secede

The formal right of each Soviet republic to leave the Union, written into the 1922 Union Treaty and later Soviet constitutions.

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Right of secession, Article 26 of the 1922 Union Treaty
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  1. adopted by Soviet Union 30 Dec 1922 – 26 Dec 1991

The 1922 Union Treaty stated: “Each of the united Republics retains its full liberty to leave the Union if it so desires.” In December 1991 the republics used that right to dissolve the Soviet Union.

According to the Russian government, this right was “the mine” laid under the Soviet state and the cause of its disintegration.

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  • Soviet Union 30 Dec 1922 – 26 Dec 1991 Primary record 23

    Article 26 of the 1922 Union Treaty; the Library of Congress notes the 1991 dissolution was based on it.

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  1. 30 Dec 1922 – 26 Dec 1991 Soviet Union adopted Union republics' right to secede
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  1. Address by the President of the Russian Federation, 21 February 2022, Russian government, 21 Feb 2022. Primary record Archived copy
    the mine laid at the initial stage to destroy state immunity to the disease of nationalism was ticking. As I have already said, the mine was the right of secession from the Soviet Union.
    The disintegration of our united country was brought about by the historic, strategic mistakes on the part of the Bolshevik leaders and the CPSU leadership, mistakes committed at different times in state-building and in economic and ethnic policies.
    Lenin’s ideas of what amounted in essence to a confederative state arrangement and a slogan about the right of nations to self-determination, up to secession, were laid in the foundation of Soviet statehood.
  2. Declaration of Union and Treaty of Union, December 30, 1922, Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, Michigan State University, 30 Dec 1922. Primary record
    Each of the united Republics retains its full liberty to leave the Union if it so desires.
  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
    The dissolution was based on article 26, which provided for the right to leave the Union.
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