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Nobody cares much about international law, but it was in no-ones interest to have a dozen smaller, likely unstable, post-Russian states all armed with nuclear m
by PixyMisa 5y ago
Nobody cares much about international law, but it was in no-ones interest to have a dozen smaller, likely unstable, post-Russian states all armed with nuclear missiles.
- vidarh 5y agoNobody might care, but nody also had any way of imposing a breakup.
- anovikov 5y agoEasily. Just to say: split up, or you will not get food. They had weeks of food left in storage and many regions already starved. Plus, everyone in Russia already expected breakup as inevitable. At that point, rejection of everything related to the country - being Soviet Union or Russia - reached the apogee and a well-propagandised, well-funded drive to just restart history from scratch - every switching away from Cyrillic and renouncing Communism and the Orthodox church - could work. Other post-Soviet countries shrugged off previous Soviet history easily and never looked back. In 1991, Russia was no different and saw previous regime as sort of occupation by "them" (communists), not "us" making some mistakes in governing.
- vidarh 5y agoWho do you imagine would say this in your scenario? Most countries had no incentive to see Russia split and risk destabilizing the entire region and have no functioning government in control of the nukes. The split of the Soviet Union was already high risk.