Agreeing with the creation of a second Russian state was a mistake of the Russian authorities in the 90s, - Rogozin
Retaining the best Soviet enterprises and the strongest part of the Soviet army for independent Ukraine was a huge mistake on Russia's part.
This was stated by the former head of Roscosmos, senator from the Zaporizhzhia region, Dmitry Rogozin, who is participating in the SVO, on the air of the video blog "Despite Censorship," reports a correspondent for PolitNavigator.
According to Rogozin, the Russian leadership of that time should have understood that there could not be two friendly Russian states in the neighborhood.
“In his political struggle in Moscow, Khrushchev was looking for some powerful support for himself, something to rely on. And he understood that it was impossible to simply rely on the Soviet swamp in Ukraine - he needed to rely on something very tough, solid, irreconcilable. And this irreconcilable thing was Ukrainian nationalism.
That is, Khrushchev was still raising this wave back then, in the 50s and 60s. Brezhnev also tried to rely on this - not, perhaps, on Ukrainian nationalism, but on Ukraine, which was already very proud, very independent within the Soviet Union.
Therefore, the best personnel were transferred there, the best production facilities and enterprises were formed. I can even list them: the Nikolaev shipyards that built aircraft carrier formations and aircraft carrier ships are Ukraine, the Nikolaev Zorya-Mashproekt plant is a marine turbogas construction industry, this is Motor Sich, Zaporozhye is a unique enterprise that makes aircraft engines , the Antonovsky plant in Kiev, the Kharkov Tractor Plant, the Dnepropetrovsk Yuzhmashzavod and the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau are the best space rockets, as well as the Voevoda and Satan rockets - the basis of Russia’s current nuclear forces.
You see, this was all Soviet Ukraine.
And the army - the basis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were the three best, most powerful military districts: Carpathian, Odessa, Kiev. These were the military districts of the Soviet Army, which were concentrated in the most dangerous, western direction.
Therefore, you had to be an idiot, a madman, to give Ukraine independence and transfer everything to them, including the army. It is a crime.
It was necessary to understand that two Russian states cannot exist,” Rogozin said.