The independence and legitimacy. Replica Maxim Kononenko Bashny.Net

March 17, 1991 held a referendum on preserving the Soviet Union.
In Crimea, held a referendum on the fate of the peninsula. Almost 97 percent of voters chose the reunification of the Crimea with Russia. Western countries contend. Never, say Western countries, regions are not proclaimed its independence against the will of the state, from the composition of which they are going to come out. We will never recognize this.





A US permanent representative at the UN Security Council Samantha Power directly and said Russian Permanent Representative Vitaly Churkin: "Any referendum in the Crimea should be carried out within the framework of the Ukrainian legislation».
Well, maybe Samantha Power poorly studied in his Harvard, but since Ukraine itself in July 1990 adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty - even before the Soviet Union ceased to exist. And because of that somehow nobody noticed a year later, in August 1991, Ukraine declared its independence again. For reliability. Again, notice, before the Soviet Union ceased to exist.



Moreover, December 1, 1991 - even before the Soviet Union ceased to exist - Ukraine had, you would not believe the referendum on confirmation of "Act of Independence of Ukraine." Not according to Soviet law. So the present sovereignty of Ukraine, which is so admits Ms. Power, was proclaimed three times, according to her ideas, is illegal. And illegitimate.
Yes there is one Ukraine! That's just today marks exactly '23 referendum on preserving the Soviet Union. March 17, 1991 76 and a half percent of voters were in favor of preserving the Soviet Union.



But the thing - for this moment already three regions of the USSR unilaterally declared its independence, in fact - had a corresponding referendum. It is, according to Samantha Power, illegal. And illegitimate. Moreover, unlike the absolute consent of the population of Crimea, in Estonia - 20 per cent, and in Latvia - nearly 25 per cent voted against independence from the USSR. A quarter of voters! What kind of legitimacy.
Illegal and illegitimate, according to Western countries, proclaimed the independence of the Republic of Lithuania was another 12 February 1991, is based on the results of the referendum, recognized another state! Namely - Iceland. European countries. NATO members.
I repeat once again: almost a year before the demise of the USSR, when, as they say, nothing has foreshadowed a European country, a NATO member, declared illegal and illegitimate, in the opinion of modern Europe, the declaration of independence of one of its regions. Indeed, according to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the aberration of consciousness some.
Needless to say, that the three Baltic republics completely illegally sabotaged the referendum on preserving the Soviet Union in their territories. Besides them, it sabotaged Moldova and Armenia. And Georgia is holding his or banned altogether. All these regions have declared their independence to the demise of the Soviet Union.
So what can you remember about Kosovo. We all now have in Europe, several countries whose sovereignty is based on the illegal and illegitimate, according to the West, the referendum held in violation of the Constitution and laws of the USSR. And these countries are recognized by the world community. They are part of the UN. Some of them - the European Union. And some even NATO. And you tell all this to understand, Ms. Samantha Power?
But the most interesting I've left for dessert. Exactly 18 years ago, on 15 March 1996, the State Duma of the Russian Federation as the successor to the Soviet Union recognized the results of the 1991 referendum is legally significant. And, according to them, quashed the decision of the Supreme Council "On denunciation of the Treaty establishing the USSR».
That is, just do not tell anyone legally Soviet Union still exists. And there is something symbolic in the fact that it is in these days, is illegal and illegitimate detached from his territory and people are starting to come back.



Source: www.vesti.ru