DECLARATION OF UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE
The early 1990s brought the changes that Ukraine had long expected. The USSR was shaking and Moscow at last lost the possibility to manage union republics. In August, 1991, the State Committee for the State of Emergency created some more factors for the collapse of the Soviet Union. Immediately after the coup the Ukrainian SSR Verkhovna Rada was assembled at the extraordinary session scheduled for August, 24.
Then, as in any critical period, events developed rapidly. On August 24, 1991, the Ukrainian SSR Verkhovna Rada voted for the Act of Declaration of the Independence of Ukraine. It is interesting to know that out of 450 deputies 346 voted for the independence whereas the Communist majority, demoralized with the failure of the coup in Moscow, did
