The Absence of a State Language in the USSR as a Prerequisite for the "Parade of State Languages" in the Union Republics

The relevance of this study is due to the fact that, even thirty years after the destruction of the USSR, discussions around the causes of the destruction of the country do not stop. Turning to this topic, most researchers, as a rule, focus on the so-called August putsch or the Belovezhskaya Agreement, or combine these two events together. In fact, the process of the destruction of the USSR consists of a number of intermediate and successive events, each of which played a certain role and, without each of which, the destruction of the USSR could not have happened. One of such insufficiently researched events was the so-called "parade of state languages".The object and subject of the study are social relations and legal relations, theoretical sources, the activities of authorities to regulate these relations and legal norms related to the problem of the status of the state language in different periods of the history of the state – before and after the October Revolution, from the creation of the USSR Union to the beginning of its destruction.
The purpose of the study is to analyze theoretical approaches to the problems of the status of the state language, scientific articles and publications, regulations, specific events in the history of our state that made possible the onset of the "parade of state languages", which, then, will lead to the "parade of sovereignties".
The objectives of the study is to establish the patterns of these events and their relationship with the absence of a constitutional norm on the state language.
Methodology. The research uses general scientific methods of research, system, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, retrospective-historical, as well as comparative-legal.
Results. As a result of the study, a direct connection was proved between the absence of a constitutionally fixed status of the Russian language in the Constitution of the USSR and the beginning of the so-called "Parade of state Languages" in the Baltic republics, then in the Moldavian SSR and other republics, as a result of which native speakers of Russian in national republics turned out to be people with limited rights and freedoms.
Conclusions. According to the results of the study, the author came to the conclusion that the absence of a constitutionally fixed status of the Russian language as the state language allowed the launch of a "Parade of state languages" in a number of Union Republics, which, in turn, led to the launch of the process of interlanguage and interethnic separation in individual republics, and then to the so-called "the parade of sovereignties."

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