Talk:Kastonia

Sorry for being all Mr-History here, but the reason why most of the Central Asian SSR abandoned the USSR was because their leaders in government realised that they could consolidate power based on ethnic lines (especially in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan). They also wanted completed economic and political independence from Moscow. While it is plausible that they would have entered a union between each other (probably Kazakhstan for being the most economically viable of them) they would not have joined with a nation that had not been part of the USSR. After all, that would've have looked....to imperialist, which was so 19th century. --Cheers The Road to Hell  is paved with good intentions  20:27, December 27, 2014 (UTC)