Hiroaki Kuromiya
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"Nowy Prometeusz nr 5, grudzień 2013 r., ss. 113-122]
The collapse in 1991 of the Soviet Union took everyone by surprise. All of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union became independent states almost by default. The collapse realized one of the most important aims of the Promethean movement: the creation of a buffer zone between Poland and Russia in the form of the independent states of Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania (although the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad oblast’ – formerly Eastern Prussia – still faces Poland directly from the east).