The Russian government had tried to persuade the leaders of the other states of the other successor countries of the Soviet Union, which were working together in the “Commonwealth of Independent States” (CIS), to make declarations of loyalty.
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Berlin The list of miscalculations by the Russian leadership in the war of aggression against Ukraine is long. It ranges from the belief in rapid military success and the flight of the political leadership from Kyiv to the expectation that their own troops will be greeted with jubilation by a subjugated population in the neighboring country.
With the order to attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin could also thwart his own goal, which is central to his actions: he is concerned with restoring a Russian “empire”.
The tsarist empire and the Soviet Union extended far beyond the Russian Federation and, in addition to Central Asian countries, also included the Ukraine and today’s EU states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Until 1917 the Tsar also ruled over Finland and parts of Poland.
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