The illegal dissollution of the USSR was one of Humanity's greatest tragedies, and anyone who thinks the Russian Federation is an improvement needs to do some serious introspection.
What was so illegal? Possibly the millions of USSR citizens taking the first flight or ride out of the Soviet bloc when it became available. Very illegal for the proletariat I'm sure.
The majority of Soviet citizens wished to retain Socialism, a fact that continued after the dissolution. The people fleeing newly established Capitalism was due to dissolved safety nets. 7 million people died due to "Shock Therapy."
the coup where Yeltsin ordered the military to fire upon parliament with tanks and instituted a rule-by-decree system to dissolve the government
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis
seems pretty illegal to me
From one of the comments
Countries listed by the first launches of artificial Earth satellites:
USSR - 1957
USA - 1958
UK - 1962
Canada - 1962
Italy - 1964
France - 1965
Australia - 1967
Europe - 1968
Germany - 1969
Japan - 1970
China - 1970
Poland - 1973
Netherlands - 1974
Spain - 1974
India - 1975
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Countries listed by the first launches of space satellites with their own launch vehicles:
USSR - October 4, 1957
USA - February 1, 1958
France - November 26, 1965
Italy - April 26, 1967
Japan - February 11, 1970
China - April 24, 1970
UK - October 28, 1971
India - 18 July 1980
Israel - September 19, 1988
Russia - January 21, 1992
Ukraine - August 31, 1995
Iran - February 2, 2009
DPRK - December 12, 2012
Republic of Korea - 30 January 2013
New Zealand - January 21, 2018
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Countries listed by the first flights of astronauts:
USSR - April 12, 1961
USA - May 5, 1961
Czechoslovakia - March 2, 1978
Poland - June 27, 1978
GDR - 26 August 1978
Bulgaria - April 10, 1979
Hungary - May 26, 1980
Vietnam - July 23, 1980
Cuba - September 18, 1980
Mongolia - March 22, 1981
Romania - May 14, 1981
France - June 24, 1982
FRG - November 28, 1983
India - April 3, 1984
Canada - October 5, 1984
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Countries listed by the number of first-of-its-kind spacecraft (remarkable, of historical significance, with achievements that were made for the first time by one of the countries) until 1992:
USSR - 21
USA - 15
EU - 1
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Countries listed by the number of spacecraft launched to explore the solar system, as well as first-of-its-kind or noteworthy vehicles launched into low Earth orbit before 1992:
USSR - 115
USA - 84
EU - 4
Japan - 4
Germany - 2
UK - 1
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Countries listed by the number of successful orbital launches (not including emergency and partially emergency) until 1992:
USSR - 2278
USA - 903
Japan - 42
France - 39
China - 27
EU - 13
Kenya* - 9
India - 3
Australia - 2
Israel - 2
Countries listed by the lowest proportion of emergency orbital launches for countries with more than 10 launches before 1992:
USSR - 5.54%
EU - 7.14%
USA - 11.25%
Japan - 12.24%
France - 14.89%
China - 17.65%
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Countries listed by the lowest proportion of accidental and partially accidental orbital launches for countries with more than 10 launches before 1992:
USSR - 7.13%
EU - 7.14%
Japan - 14.29%
USA - 14.65%
France - 17.02%
China - 20.59%
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The number of dead astronauts:
when performing space flight: in the USSR - 4, in the USA - 14;
in preparation for space flight: the USSR - 1, the USA - 5.
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