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365 Days of February
February is a critical month in Russian and Ukrainian history. Many of the most important turning points in our historical path over the past 120 years occurred in this month. The February Revolution of 1917, the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, Stalin’s illness, which led to his death (February 28 — March 5, 1953), and finally, the signing by Presidents Boris Yeltsin and George H.W. Bush at Camp David of the Joint Declaration on the End of the Cold War (1992), formally ending the Soviet totalitarian era.
This unusual trend has a reasonable scientific explanation. At one time Richard Pipes, one of the greatest American experts on Russia and the USSR, stated that weather and natural conditions played an important role in the February Revolution of 1917.
The peoples of Russia have always been close to the cycles of nature and dependent on them. In February, human resources are usually depleted, people tired of the long winter are prone to take radical decisions and impulsive actions. Society acts reactively, it is almost impossible to stop the avalanche of people’s anger that rose in February.
Recent history has continued this tradition. The Ukrainian revolution of 2014 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine also took place in February. February 2022 proved to be an important boundary that divided the world into “before” and “after.” Russia’s unprovoked aggression…