The Federation Council called the preservation of the USSR in 1991: Politics: Russia: Lenta.ru
The collapse of the USSR in 1991 could have been prevented if the leadership had the political will. Such a condition for the preservation of the country in a conversation with RIA News named the first deputy head of the international committee of the Federation Council Vladimir Dzhabarov.
“If only Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had political will. After the signing of the Belovezhskaya agreements, he had every right to disavow the document, as well as involve it in the negotiations, ”the senator explained.
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He also called the collapse of the Soviet Union the most tragic date in the country’s history.
Earlier in December, the former secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Vladimir Kalashnikov, in an interview with Lenta.ru, named the main mistake that the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, made before the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to him, on the last day of his tenure as president, Gorbachev told People’s Deputy, Professor Anatoly Denisov: “Probably, I was in a hurry to resign from my duties as general secretary. Now the game would even be very useful to me. “
On December 8, 1991, the heads of the republic – founders Boris Yeltsin (Russia), Leonid Kravchuk (Ukraine) and Stanislav Shushkevich (Belarus) signed an agreement in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, in which they announced the termination of the existence of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). On December 25 of the same year, the President of the USSR, Gorbachev, resigned from himself Mikhail the top.