Thirty years ago, on March 17, 1991, 80.16 percent of Ukraine’s citizens in a national referendum voted “yes” to sovereignty within a union of Soviet sovereign states, based on Ukraine’s July 16, 1990, Declaration of State Sovereignty. A surprising 70.5 percent of the voters were in favor of a renewed federation of Soviet socialist republics, as proposed by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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