soviet union but the declaration was supposed to consolidate the use or sar it actually stated bill suprema c.e.o. of union law and provided the constituent republics shall govern themselves will deem the legal boundaries set by a new union treaty unfortunately the situation unfolded in a different fashion in the declaration it is being used to break up the soviet union in fact that is why it is being celebrated today. twenty years after the twelfth of june became a national holiday in russia the attitude towards it it's still mixed here is this report from spotlights. or was simple and clear when the us is saw the country's major national day was in memory of the great october socialist revolution which brought in than sorry steve rush hour. the communist ideology never allowed to question the supremum porton so the event but seventy five years later with the collapse of the soviet union the new democratic russia found itself in need of another big national reason to celebrate the new russian leader. came up with one in one thousand nine hundred two. traduced on the twelfth of june was initially