On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:28 PM, RussellMc <apptechnz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are very risky and probably best not made as general statements.
> While no doubt made in good faith, and an eye to what some historians
> will tell you, and what Wikipedia and/or other sources may say, they
> do not match everyone's opinions and some will argue extremely
> forcibly that the SU never had any more right to the Baltic Republics
> than to any other disputed state.
>
> I am less aware of whether Ukrainians generally have strong feelings
> about the merits of their inclusion in the SU.
>

You are right, however, I was talking about the country itself, not people
feelings. Same as in Spain - in some opinion there is no Spain, only Basque
country, Catalonia, Andalusia, Galicia, Aragon etc but right now we only sa=
y
Spain for the entire region and as a country. Austro-Hungarian Empire also
included many other countries, including Slovakia, part of Slovenia,
Ukraine, Romania and Croatia. UK still includes (Unites...) many countries
(England, Wales, Scotland and Northern-Ireland for the most obvious
examples, but even America was part of it back in time before reached
their sovereignty and built up US as we know today). Borders are always
matter of internationally accepted facts (as opposed to claims of occupancy=
)
and Soviet Union was accepted by pretty much everyone around the world as i=
t
was -- then many united countries reached their independence after the
political change.

This was pretty much the map by that time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc

Tamas




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