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27. Why was the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. so painful for Kazakhstan?
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Gennadiy N. Lepeshkin:
A major, living structure went out of wack. Because everthing was very closely interconnected... linked among the republics: economic ties and political ones. Everything had to be restructured. The upshot was that everyone lost. They gained sovereignty, and lost everything [else].