30 years of the new slave agreement
On February 15, 1994, the so-called “new federal agreement” was signed between the Resource Federation and Tatarstan. Instead of struggling for independence, the then leadership of Tatarstan decided to exchange freedom for the promised mountains of gold and prosperity. Otherwise, they promised to raze Tatarstan to the ground. However, as it usually happens, the one who has chosen bread instead of freedom loses both freedom and bread.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a certain period of turbulence in the Kremlin’s possessions, which gave rise to a certain degree of freedom in the colonies. Just a little more and the instability would have reached the scale of the complete collapse of the under-empire.
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