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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.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
25–26 Dec 1991
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.
According to Fidel Castro. Cuba, harmed by the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Castro names the collapse of the wider socialist camp alongside the Soviet Union’s disintegration.
According to Leonid Kravchuk. Ukraine benefited from the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Quoted in a Reuters report of 10 May 2022, which does not date the remark.
According to Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet people, harmed by the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
According to Nursultan Nazarbayev. Kazakhstan, harmed by the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The same address presents Kazakhstan’s independence and what followed as achievements.
According to the Russian government. Russia, harmed by the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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. Belarus benefited from the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
According to the United States government. The United States 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.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
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