How Ukrainians Were Responsible for the End of the Cold War

What You Need To Know:

✅ Serhii Plokhii dispels the prevailing myth that United States was responsible for the end of the Cold War;
✅ “What my book shows is that none of them (Bush, Reagan) really contributed to the key moments in the end of the Cold War and that is the collapse of the Soviet Union;”
✅ An overwhelming Ukrainian vote supporting independence on December 1st, 1991 was in fact what led to the end of the Soviet Union and in turn, the end of the Cold War;
✅ “Putin’s project of a Eurasian Union is incomplete without the participation of Ukraine.”

Hromadske’s Nataliya Gumenyuk spoke to Serhii Plokhii, Author and Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University in August, 2016.

Watch: http://en.hromadske.ua/articles/show/Ukrainians_Were_Responsible_For_End_Cold_War