June 1990 Russian Sovereignty Declaration Made Possible Putin’s ‘Orwellian Anti-Utopia’ – OpEd

Those behind the RSFSR’s declaration of sovereignty on June 12, 1990, were motivated not by a desire to accelerate reforms, limit the powers of the nomenklatura or join the Western world but were driven by “only one thing – an insane pursuit of power and wealth,” Vladislav Inozemtsev says.

To achieve their real ends,...