Ukraine Votes for Independence, 1991

🫧 Open on Bubbles From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History , by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 2-3: While the disintegration of the Soviet Union had been underway for some time, it became irreversible on December 1, 1991, when the citizens of Ukraine, the Union’s second-largest republic after Russia, went to the polls to decide whether they wanted their country to become independent. The turnout exceeded 84 percent of eligible voters, and more than 92 percent of them chose independe