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minus-squareGoodEye8@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years ago Countries weren’t controlled by the USSR, they were a member state of the USSR and had input on democratic central planning and decisions. So countries that were forcibly integrated, like the Baltic states, weren’t controlled? Then why couldn’t they leave the union?
minus-square∞🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down4·2 years agoThey could. Article 17 of the 1936 Constitution (can be found on https://marxists.org > English > History > Soviet Union > Soviet Government) explicitly allowed every Republic to secede from the U.S.S.R.
So countries that were forcibly integrated, like the Baltic states, weren’t controlled? Then why couldn’t they leave the union?
They could. Article 17 of the 1936 Constitution (can be found on https://marxists.org > English > History > Soviet Union > Soviet Government) explicitly allowed every Republic to secede from the U.S.S.R.