On August 24, 1991, just 48 hours after a coup attempt in Moscow had been defeated, Leonid Kravchuk, the speaker of Ukraine’s late-Soviet-era parliament, scolded fellow MPs for dithering over the sole item on that day’s legislative agenda: a declaration of independence.
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