To the issue of international legal personality of complicated systems of government (the case of the USSR)

In 1944, amendments to the 1936 Constitution of the USSR were adopted that granted the soviet republics the right to establish direct contacts with foreign countries, to conclude agreements with them and exchange diplomatic and consular representatives. This reform was aimed at improving the representation of the Soviet Union in the future United Nations by admitting the Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet Republics to its membership. Another equally important reason for the amendments of 1944 was the attempt to revive the political situation that had taken place before 1922, when the soviet republics were in fact sovereign states having their own foreign policy. By giving the soviet federative structure some features of confederation, the constitutional amendments of 1944 began the processes of gradual internal disintegration within the Soviet Union and played a significant role in the political debate and the national question of the late 1980s.