Boris Yeltsin and his entourage of democrats unleashed and encouraged ethnic-nationalist feeling in the republics in an attempt to wrest central power from the communists – and succeeded instead in destroying the Soviet Union. When Ukraine used the center’s weakness to break away from its tyrannical older brother, the death knell sounded by ROMAN LABA […]

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