then leonid kravchuk, i think, played very clearly. this party, he told barennikov that everything islm with us, that we have to finish, finish the harvest, or if we do not harvest, then there will be nothing for him... the soviet union, in this way he somehow weakened this pressure moscow, but in fact the situation was different, moscow was not able to put pressure on ukraine at that time, they did not have enough strength even to resolve the issue with the russian authorities, not to introduce a state of emergency in ukraine itself, and those politicians who were aware of this, they just asked the question of the 20th. in august in the verkhovna rada , the issue of declaring independence, the independence of ukraine, is one such branch, it is a process at the level of government, but there was also another process, it is the process of the people's struggle itself. in in kyiv on the 19th, people had already gathered on the square, the current independence square, kyiv had already been plastered with leaflets about the fact that it is not necessary to recognize the government of the