>>519709516
>Why was it dissolved if 70% of the population voted to preserve it?
Actually people on voted to reformation of the USSR into the CIS.
Really.
Check referendum quotation
>Do you consider necessary the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics in which the rights and freedom of an individual of any ethnicity will be fully guaranteed?
Soviet republics were
neither equal
nor sovereign,
freedom of individuals of any ethnicity wasn't guaranteed.
CIS fixed all that.

"Population voted to preserve it" is butthurt commies attempt to rewrite history. Many such cases.