"...The collapse of the USSR in 1991--77 years after the start of the First World War--started this process over again. Once again, as in 1919, the entire region was liberated from foreign rule. This time the proliferation of new states has gone much further, with Czechoslovakia and former Yugoslavia giving way to no less than 8 new states, and not only the Baltic States, but also Ukraine and Belarus, becoming independent..." DK
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919, quoted Bliss, a Paris military
attache, re 'surfacing' nations:
'vicious from the moment of their birth'.
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