Voshchanov did the same, when he held a press conference. A Ukrainian journalist accused Yeltsin and the Russian leadership of clinging to communist-imperialist legacy. Voshchanov replied that Ukrainian nationalists regarded this “legacy” highly selectively: “You don’t want to live with Russia in a union? This is a communist legacy for you? Then go, but return Crimea and Donbass to us! Because they became part of Ukraine due to the ‘communist legacy’! You received them from Nikita Khrushchev with the approval of the CC CPSU Presidium.”
