Letter: Soviets accepted Ukraine’s nationhood with a UN seat

I may have missed it, but has anyone mentioned the fact that at the creation of the UN the USSR negotiated separate seats for Ukraine and Belorussia (Belarus)? Of course these were independent countries that were in no way to be seen as parts of the Soviet empire. Well, Russia now seems to think differently about separate nationhood for Ukraine. Not really a country? Well, what’s it going to be, Russia? You can’t have it both ways. Was UN membership for Ukraine a tragic lapse of judgment of the USSR at the time?

Jan Willem van der Vossen
Edgewater, MD, US

Letter: Soviets accepted Ukraine’s nationhood with a UN seat
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