‹ Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Who benefited from the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
Shows who gained or lost, and who disputes a study that says so, in the words of whoever says it.
Not that anyone caused it.
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According to Fidel Castro
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Cuba
harmed by
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In addition to this, we have endured ten years of a special period, after the collapse of the socialist camp and disintegration of the Soviet Union left us devoid of markets and sources of supplies.
Castro names the collapse of the wider socialist camp alongside the Soviet Union's disintegration.
According to Leonid Kravchuk
According to Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet people
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3
And today I am worried by our people’s loss of the citizenship of a great country. The consequences may turn out to be very hard for everyone.
According to Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Kazakhstan
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4
Let us recall how the Soviet empire fell, leaving us with confusion and emotional turmoil, a ruined economy and politics.
The same address presents Kazakhstan's independence and what followed as achievements.
According to Russian government
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Russia
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56
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory.
The Kremlin's English text says 'a major geopolitical disaster of the century'; the line is widely translated as 'the greatest geopolitical catastrophe'.
According to Stanislav Shushkevich
According to United States government
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United States
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89
The Soviet Union itself is no more. This is a victory for democracy and freedom. It's a victory for the moral force of our values. Every American can take pride in this victory
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Proof 9 sources
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Speech given by Fidel Castro Ruz at the Plenary Session of the 105th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Havana, April 5, 2001, Government of the Republic of Cuba, 5 Apr 2001.
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Archived copy
In addition to this, we have endured ten years of a special period, after the collapse of the socialist camp and disintegration of the Soviet Union left us devoid of markets and sources of supplies.
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Leonid Kravchuk, Independent Ukraine's First President, Dies at 88, Voice of America, 10 May 2022.
Scholarship & press
Archived copy
I understood Ukraine could never be really independent if the USSR still existed
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Resignation Speech, World History Commons, George Mason University, 25 Dec 1991.
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And today I am worried by our people’s loss of the citizenship of a great country. The consequences may turn out to be very hard for everyone.
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Address of the Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan, Official website of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 19 Mar 2019.
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Archived copy
Let us recall how the Soviet empire fell, leaving us with confusion and emotional turmoil, a ruined economy and politics.
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Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, 25 April 2005, Russian government, 25 Apr 2005.
Primary record
Archived copy
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory.
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Putin deplores collapse of USSR, BBC, 25 Apr 2005.
Scholarship & press
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century.
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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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Address to the Nation on the Commonwealth of Independent States, December 25, 1991, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara, 25 Dec 1991.
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The Soviet Union itself is no more. This is a victory for democracy and freedom. It's a victory for the moral force of our values. Every American can take pride in this victory
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Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, January 28, 1992, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara, 28 Jan 1992.
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I mean to speak this evening of the changes that can take place in our country, now that we can stop making the sacrifices we had to make when we had an avowed enemy that was a superpower.
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