DON’T STOP SECEDING
It's often human nature to want to be independent and separate, which may explain why so many times in history groups and regions have seceded from a country or attempted to do so.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the USSR. It broke up in 1991. Twenty months prior to its official dissolution in April 1990 it passed a law stating: A republic could secede if two-thirds of the citizens voted do so. A law already existed in the USSR that allowed for secession, but the revised law in 1990 detailed how exactly a nation would exercise this right. The (arguable) beginning of the end of the USSR occurred in 1988 when Estonia decided to secede by passing the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration which stated their independence. Lithuania and Georgia followed suit soon thereafter.
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia existed until 1992, at which point the future Slovenia and Croatia decided they’d be better off without it seceded. By 1992, the last remaining piece of Yugoslavia changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro, a country which, 14 years later, split into its two components.
On July 9, 2011, South Sudan officially declared its independence from Sudan. About 6 months earlier, a six day poll was conducted open to everyone in the area, whether or not to secede. An agreement was made that if more than 60% voted to secede, it would happen. 98.83% voted and wanted to be independent. The poll was the result of two different civil wars collectively spanning 38 years of fighting.
Nazi Germany invaded Austria, on March 12, 1938, and incorporated it into Germany. It took Austria 17 years to regain full independence. Though it declared its independence again on April 27, 1945, just three days before the death of Hitler it was placed under allied occupation and didn’t become fully sovereign again till 1955.
Texas was once part of Mexico. The Texas Revolution changed all this, and on March 2, 1836, the Republic of Texas became an independent nation it lasted for about 10 years before it was annexed by USA. In this span, it had 5 Presidents, printed currency, appointed Congress and a Supreme Court, and established diplomatic relations with many larger and more powerful countries. However, mostly due to inflation caused by overprinting money, this new country ended up badly in debt,and so agreed to become part of the USA in exchange of it taking on Texas’s debts.
Speaking of secession from Mexico during the early 1800s, the Republic of Yucatan seemingly couldn’t decide whether it wanted to be independent. It broke away from Mexico in 1823 but officially became part of Mexico again about half a year later. Then again in 1841, it declared it separateness, this time lasting 7 years before re-joining Mexico in 1848. The republic of Yucatan went through two civil wars during its existence.
For a long time, Belgium’s land was part of Netherlands. The Belgium Revolution, which started in August of 1830 raged for almost a year. The revolt was mostly caused by built of tension from a cultural difference and the north trying to impose its culture to the south. However, the revolt officially started after a performance in an Opera. The people ran into the streets, started rioting and attempted to take control of government buildings. This may be the only time in history when an opera performance sparked a secession revolution.
The Democratic Republic of Congo had been independent only for 11 days when the State of Katanga in turn declared independence from it. Belgium owned Democratic Republic of Congo and during this time it was called Belgian Congo.
A time when attempted secession proved unsuccessful was the 1860s, where in the USA, 11 states declared themselves over a period of half a year to be part of their own separate country called Confederate States of America. South Carolina was the 1st state to declare it was not part of US anymore. Texas was the 7th state to join in and North Carolina was the 11th and last state secede.
Paraguay seceded on May 4, 1811, from Spain. Madagascar declared its independence from France on
June 26,1960. Iceland belonged to Denmark prior to 1 December,1918.
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