UK poisoning

[StLucieBengal]

(04-10-2018, 07:54 PM)Dill Wrote: Lucy, you are surprising me. 

The Lithuanian SSR, for example, constantly had trouble controlling its populace because they OVERWHELMING wanted out from under the Soviet/Russian thumb.

But their "government" was set up by the USSR backed Lithuanian Communist Party and Russian post-war immigrants.  That thin sliver of the population which then controlled the government would never choose to break a away. And if they did, the USSR would see that they were replaced with someone who didn't.

So it doesn't reallly matter what the bulk of the people of Lithuanian wanted.  The moment the USSR could not cap protest there, the Russian backed SSR was toast. Same in the other "autonomous" republics. 

Chechnya could not break away even after the government shifted to the Federation.

So it doesn't really matter what the Constitution simply said because no one could simply break away.

The USSR was contentious and at different times close to fracturing. A couple of articles kept it together longer than it should have been. Part of the reason I am all over the EU is that I see the same stuff happening to preserve the EU that the USSR did to preserve itself.

My wife was born into the USSR and still remembers parts even though she was young. A lot of people wanted to go back to the USSR strictly as a trade union with other benefits. No way the west would allow that to happen again I imagine. Which is odd thy let the EU go as far as they have down this road.