ISBN 9780774804387 (page 371) ^ Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the SovietUnion by Roman Szporluk, Hoover Institution Press, 2000, ISBN 0817995420 (page
Helsinki and the Winter Games to St. Moritz. Finland's invasion by the SovietUnion, in 1939, and the ensuing World War II forced the IOC to cancel the 1940
the disintegration of the SovietUnion was a "geopolitical catastrophe". "He does not understand that the collapse of the Soviet system was predetermined