no, on january 11-13, three deputies from the people's council mykhailo goren, larisa, larisa skoryk and i left for vilnius the day before, and we saw with our own eyes what moscow was doing to the residents of the lithuanian capital. and we understood that, god forbid, something similar could happen in ukraine, because we knew very well the habits of moscow, its methods of pacification. but the key republic for the preservation of the ussr was not lithuania, but ukraine. the largest union republic is one of the three brotherly nations in the mythology of the elder brother. it is kyiv's refusal to come to novo ogorevo near moscow for solemn re-establishment of the union, put an end to plans to preserve the empire. understanding this pushed the aging kremlin bosses to a desperate attempt to stop historical processes over which they no longer had power. but you know. it is easy to state this today, and then the finale of this geopolitical drama had not yet been written. therefore, the ballet and statements of the coup participants were broadcast on television. tanks appeared on the str

volodymyr hrynyov, the then vice-speaker of the parliament from the democratic opposition, and larisa skoryk be no independence of ukraine without the prohibition of the communist party, and the communists, for their part, believed that independence ukraine must guarantee that the communist party will survive, because on this very day boris yeltsin in moscow banned the communist party of the soviet union on the territory of the russian federation, and in fact, between these two... desires to ban the cpsu, and this was the main idea, or vice versa, to do everything possible for ukraine to become independent, but with communist rule, it was necessary to walk between these two desires at this very moment, and the fact that ukraine was not called a republic is the result of this... . fear that we will not be able to declare independence in any way , and i remember that there were such fears until the last moment, so i think that it will be reflected in the campaign for independence, in general, when levko lukenko wrote this first draft that we saw in the morning, there was a ukrainian people's r

volodymyr hrynyov, the then vice-speaker of the parliament from the democratic opposition, and larisa skorykbanning the communist party, there can be no independence of ukraine, and the communists, for their part, believed that the independence of ukraine should guarantee the survival of the communist party, because on this very day boris yeltsin banned the communist party in moscow of the soviet union on the territory of the russian federation, and in fact, between these two... desires to ban the cpsu, and that was the main idea, or vice versa, to do everything possible to make ukraine independent, but with communist rule, between these two desires was to pass at this very moment, and the fact that ukraine did not begin to be called a republic is the result of this... fear that we will not be able to declare independence in any way, to vote for it in any way, and i remember that until the last there were such fears at the time, so i think that in the action for independence, it will be reflected, in general, when levko lukenka was writing this first project that we saw this morning, there w

volodymyr hrynyov, the then deputy speaker of the parliament from the democratic opposition, and larisa skoryk, that without the ban of the communist party there could be no independence of ukraine, and the communists, for their part, believed that independence... should guarantee the survival of the communist party, because on this very day boris yeltsin in moscow banned the communist party of the soviet union on the territory of russia federation, and in fact between these two desires it is necessary to ban the cpsu, and this was the main idea, or on the contrary to do everything possible so that ukraine becomes independent, but with... communist rule between these two desires had to be passed at this very moment and the fact that ukraine did not begin to be called a republic is the result of this fear that we will not be able to declare independence in any way, in any way to vote for it, and i remember that there were such fears until the last moment, so i think that in the action about independence... it will be reflected, in general, when levko lukenka wrote this first draft, which we saw