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  • Note the lack of citation.

    Do you think people just made up the referendum or are you under the impression it was about something else…?

    They had already been negotiating a new treaty for a while and after difficulties with the republics Gorbachev put it to the people to gain popular support. What did you think the “renewed federation of equal sovereign republics” was about?












  • The new union treaty should have been stopped based on the results of the referendum, which overwhelmingly supported the maintaining of the current federal system.

    Huh? People voted for the NUT (heh).

    “The referendum asked whether to approve a new Union Treaty between the republics, to replace the 1922 treaty that created the USSR. […] The referendum’s question was approved by nearly 80% of voters in all nine other republics that took part. However, the August coup attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party prevented the anticipated signing of the New Union Treaty that was due to take place the next day.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum

    People voted for the treaty in the referendum, hardline communists stopped the signing because they didn’t like it.