On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag were lowered over the Kremlin for the last time and replaced by the Russian tricolor. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union, appointing Boris Yeltsin as the new President o ...
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag were lowered over the Kremlin for the last time and replaced by the Russian tricolor. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union, appointing Boris Yeltsin as the new President of Russia.
Vladimir Lenin, the architect and the first leader of the Soviet Union, believed that nationalism would fade in the shadow of communism and that the unified Soviet nation would finally emerge. But it turned out that Lenin was wrong. In the 1980s and 1990s and 1991s, nationality and nationalism were the most important issues faced by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Almost after the revolution of 1917, the issue of ethnic groups in the Soviet Union was an unpleasant truth hidden behind the legend of the union of 15 republics and 100 nations under the banner of communist ideology. What brought Uzbeks, Tajiks, Azeris, Ukrainians, Georgians, Estonians, Latvians, and many other ethnic groups together was not the common interest, but the political philosophy that was imposed on them. Now this political philosophy has gradually lost color... and the dream has been replaced by the old enjoyment of freedom and the hostilities that existed before between different religions and ethnic groups.
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