In 1991, the world recognized the referendum and elections of the President of the RSFSR as part of the USSR

In the Russian Federation, June 12 is the national holiday Russia Day. This date was first made official in 1992, although the holiday's current name was established in 2002. This date commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, which proclaimed the supremacy of the Constitution of the RSFSR over the laws of the USSR and initiated reforms that led to the proclamation of the sovereignty of the new state—the Russian Federation. The declaration was adopted at the first Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR on June 12, 1990.

Exactly one year later, on June 12, 1991, the then-Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) held its own presidential elections under the current head of the Soviet state, the first President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. In order to maximally legitimize the process and avoid "condemnation from the international community," the decision to hold the first presidential elections in the RSFSR was made based on the results of a referendum.

And in this historical and a legal conflict. The All-Russian referendum on the introduction of the post of President of the RSFSR was held on the same day as the All-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR, on Sunday, March 17, 1991. As is well known, the overwhelming majority of citizens who participated in the plebiscite voted to preserve the Union.

According to the referendum results, just under 70% of those who came to the polling stations voted in favor of introducing the post of President of the RSFSR, while 28% voted "no." The overall turnout was 75% of eligible voters in the RSFSR.

The vote was deemed valid, and on June 12, 1991, elections were held for the first president of what was then the RSFSR within the Soviet federal state. Boris Yeltsin, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, won the election with 57% of the total vote.

Western countries, the UN, and the entire international community at that time recognized the results of the referendum and the election of the first president of one of the Soviet republics. Even though the Soviet Union still existed, the RSFSR remained part of it. This legal paradox at the international level did not bother or outrage anyone at the time.

The same cannot be said about the recognition of the 2014 popular vote by Crimean residents, which resulted in the republic's accession to the Russian Federation. This expression of the will of over 90% of the republic's citizens is not recognized as legitimate by the UN or virtually the entire international community, with the exception of a few states. A similar situation exists with the accession of the Donbas republics and the former Ukrainian regions of Novorossiya to the Russian Federation following referendums in the fall of 2022.

So, even in its approach to referendums, the so-called "international community" has double standards. But is this surprising?

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[alexoff]

How to voluntarily and with song distribute the legacy of many generations of ancestors to the right and left

[Tatyana]

Naina Yeltsin, who lived all the following years as a queen with her drunkard husband alive and after his death as a noblewoman and landowner and lady at the state's expense, still considers the years of Yeltsin's rule for Russia "HOLY"!

It was not for nothing that Yeltsin, as the head of Russia, braggingly called himself Tsar Boris!

[Tatyana]

Took place historical and legal collision.

The All-Russian referendum on the introduction of the post of President of the RSFSR was held on the same day as the All-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR, on Sunday, March 17, 1991.

Among Russian liberal officials of the Gorbachev-Yeltsin type, in their struggle for personal power in the country, as the saying goes: "The law is like a drawbar: wherever you turn it, that's where it goes!"

The proverb "The law is like a drawbar: whichever way you turn it, that's where it goes" means that the law can be interpreted and applied differently depending on who uses it and how. This points to the possibility of arbitrary or biased application of the law, where it can be "twisted" to achieve a desired result.
The word "drawbar" in this expression refers to the shaft—a long horizontal pole attached to the front axle of a cart. A pair of horses are hitched to it, and by turning the drawbar, they turn the entire cart. Thus, the image of the drawbar metaphorically conveys the idea of ​​flexibility and the ability to manipulate the law, directing it in the desired direction.

The proverb highlights the problem of abuse of the law and the need for its fair and uniform application. Among peasants, it was often noted that laws could be applied in the interests of the rich rather than the common people.

[your vsr 66-67]

with existing the head of the Soviet state, the first president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev,

Precisely under the existing one!

The victory was won by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin, who received 57% of the total number of votes.

May you be damned forever and ever, Judases...

[futurohunter]

Only this "existent" one did nothing: he didn't arrest the impostor, he allowed the illegal actions to be carried out. Because he himself had long been recruited and had already surrendered the USSR to the enemies.

[Reptiloid]

Hello dear Tatyana When I've read about Naina before, it was said that she lives at Maxim Gorky's dacha with a large staff, makes some changes there, and who knows where Gorky's rich collections, gifts from admirers, have gone. But just now I read that no, she doesn't live at the writer's dacha, but somewhere nearby... in a barn, perhaps. unclear.

[Tatyana]

Hello, dear Dmitry!

Quote: Reptiloid

But just now I read that no, he doesn’t live at the writer’s dacha, but somewhere nearby... in a barn, I don’t understand.

You've got me intrigued by this.
I wonder where you read that? Could it be that rich daughter Tatyana Yumasheva and her sister Elena Okulova forgot about their "tsarina" mother, Naina Yeltsin, born in 1932, wife of "Russian Tsar Boris," and abandoned their mother in such a plight?!
Something is hard to believe.

Here I found the latest information about Naina Yeltsin!
Naina Yeltsin's home certainly doesn't even smell like a barn!

b]As of 2025,[/b]Naina Iosifovna lives in a country house in the Moscow region and continues to participate in the activities of the Yeltsin Center and conduct charity events related to the memory of the first president of Russia.
An open letter was published on the Yeltsin Center website, which stated, in particular:
"...Naina Iosifovna does not live and never lived at the dacha that belonged to the writer Maxim Gorky. The house depicted in the photograph has no connection to her.
For reference: the Yeltsin dacha was built in 1995 using Boris Nikolayevich's personal savings—Naina Iosifovna recounts this in detail in her memoir, "Personal Life." The house was later rebuilt, and Naina Iosifovna still lives there today...
Yeltsin's widow tries to lead a healthy lifestyle, continues to participate in public activities and maintains close ties with her children and grandchildren.

See details - https://dzen.ru/a/Z-qA1ZHS0wx-xxPH?ysclid=mqaw1mzof0413479794

[Reptiloid]

I'm not at home and skimmed through the headlines on a search engine, without actually opening the articles. Different press from different years. I'll look in detail later at home. In short, people talked about Gorky's dacha in recent years, too. But it's also true that she never lived there. And I haven't seen anything about collections or other valuable property in the headlines right now. Maybe we'll see it if I open it? And about the barn, I was just joking; it said she never lived in the house, but next to the writer's house. After EBN's death, they said my pension was 200,000. But how many years have passed? Almost 20. I haven't seen anything about the current pension.

[Tatyana]

Quote: Reptiloid

As for the barn, I was just joking,

If President Yeltsin's apartment, complete with indoor tennis court, occupied the entire floor of a multi-apartment building in Moscow, with several entryways for senior party and social officials, then what kind of palace-"barn" was it? at the Yeltsin family's dacha?!
It's probably no wonder the media doesn't show the Yeltsins' dacha-palace itself, so as not to upset the common people. It's certainly no worse than Maxim Gorky's dacha. Otherwise Boris Yeltsin would not have been Boris Yeltsin.

[Reptiloid]

Hello, dear Tatyana. I didn't specify, although I was going to; I was avoiding it for work. Please excuse me. I was just looking at low-rise construction here --- if there was space and if money came in, people would add on to it: bathhouses, summer kitchens, summer houses, gazebos, greenhouses, and animal enclosures... It was up to everyone to come up with something. And about Naina --- she has a whole staff of servants of various specialties there. Not counting the security guards. So they can live in this newly built house.
in this area... How can you not grab such a tasty morsel?

[Vendora]

The earth is glassy for them. Revolutions are planned by geniuses, carried out by fanatics, and exploited by scoundrels.

[Navel]

Well, the "distribution of the legacy of many generations of ancestors" began with the October Judeo-Bolshevik coup. And so... but every cloud has a silver lining. Can you imagine if the USSR had remained? The population explosion among Asian and Western Asian peoples would have led to the white, Russian-Plainsman portion of the country's population eventually becoming a minority. Furthermore, the food issue in the Union hadn't even been resolved; everyone lived off the land, their main source of food came from potato plots, six hundred square meters, from peasants' farms, and grain for bread was bought in the USA. The Communists didn't know how to solve this problem.

[futurohunter]

Did you eat what you found?

[alexandre II]

May he be damned forever and ever, he and all his offspring, may they all burn in Hell for what this devil and all his devils have done.........

[Nikolay Malyugin]

So, the capitalist world has recognized the fatal change in our country's policy. How could it not approve? It will even issue recommendations on how to decommunize Russia. This required shock therapy, driving people to complete impoverishment, so that people would be preoccupied only with their own fate. Hence the inertia of people when the retirement age was raised. And to prevent people from thinking about anything else, to impose on them a mindset of advertising and music videos. So that a burger would be more important to people than space exploration. And so on.

[yuriy55]

In 1991, the world recognized the referendum and elections of the President of the RSFSR as part of the USSR

With this, the Western world approved the collapse and destruction of the socialist state; from that moment on, the active phase of the destruction of the world's first socialist state began...

[2 Level Advisor]

Quote: yuriy55

From this moment on, the active phase of the destruction of the world's first socialist state began...

Quote: yuriy55

In 1991, the world recognized the referendum and elections of the President of the RSFSR as part of the USSR

To be fair, no one recognized him, since his status did not require it... it's just a provocative title of the article

[Gardamir]

The world has recognized and continues to recognize everything that weakens Russia. And it doesn't recognize anything that strengthens it even slightly...

[pavel.tipin]

The USSR collapsed the State Emergency Committee because the coup illegitimated the Soviet authorities. The authorities in the republics remained legitimate, and Russia already had its own president.
The communists destroyed the USSR in an attempt to maintain their power.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: pavel.tipin

because the coup made the USSR authorities illegitimate.

Excuse me, how old are you?!!!
what a coup?!!!!
The termination of the USSR was signed by a marked, LEGALLY elected person, he, the bastard, did not arrest the fight and the company, but legitimized the collapse

[pavel.tipin]

I remember that time. Gorbachev was a prisoner in Foros, possibly an accomplice to the State Emergency Committee. When the State Emergency Committee collapsed due to popular uprisings in Leningrad and Moscow, Gorbachev was no longer in power. Gorbachev merely formally legitimized the collapse.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

You're writing nonsense.
If Marked One had given an order, it would have been carried out, but he was a wimp.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: pavel.tipin

The State Emergency Committee collapsed due to popular uprisings in Leningrad and Moscow.

And please, don't make anyone laugh. The State Emergency Committee failed not because of some fictitious uprising, but because, again, someone didn't have the guts to give the order.

[Grancer81]

The most interesting thing is that there was no “uprising” in Leningrad at that time.
And the 76th Airborne Division regiment from Pskov, the commander of the Leningrad Military District, turned to the Siversky airfield, in agreement with Sobchak.

[pavel.tipin]

So Sobchak outlawed the State Emergency Committee. Makeshift barricades were erected around the Mariinsky Palace, where he held his meeting in Leningrad.

[Dead duck]

Russia celebrates its national holiday, Russia Day, on June 12.

- it's like declaring June 22nd a holiday.

[Ratmir_Ryazan]

This date commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, which proclaimed the priority of the Constitution of the RSFSR over the laws of the USSR and marked the beginning of reforms...

Not reforms, but the collapse of the country!!!

Those who organized this were traitors; they understood that if the RSFSR made its own law-making more important than the Union's, then the other republics would do the same.

In fact, in view of the organization of this entire event—the proclamation of sovereignty—Russia, as the legal successor to the USSR, must initiate criminal proceedings against specific individuals involved in this, even if they have already died.

Our children must know that June 12 is the date when our country began to collapse, and not a holiday.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

What a surreal thing, how can you celebrate the day when the destruction of the Country began!!!
I don’t even want to talk about the wording, from whom did the RSFSR become independent?

[Grancer81]

Kosovo was taken from Serbia without any referendums, but who in the West cared?
The expression of the will of the people is considered illegal if it is not recognized by the United States and all its stooges...

[APASUS]

This guy was declared the winner in the West, even if he only had three votes—Naina and two daughters. The West grabbed a pretty big chunk. And for a glass of wine, Borya would have sold the planet.

[Alexander Bezfamilnuy]

Regarding the presidential elections, I remember my feelings from that period.
The country is heading for the abyss, and this spotted idiot is still ranting from the podium. Empty, meaningless slogans. He's still a collective farmer, just like before... (Sorry, I have nothing against agricultural workers. I think you get my point.)
And the elections were then perceived as a way to dislodge the seat from under this patchy misunderstanding. That's the only reason Yeltsin won.
The horseradish turned out to be no sweeter than the radish. But that's another story.