Former Foreign Minister of Russia Igor Ivanov said that the collapse of the USSR did not occur due to foreign policy, but because of economic problems within the country. He called this reason in an interview with Kommersant.
As Ivanov noted, despite the popularity of the first and only president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, he lost popular support due to socio-economic policies and empty counters.
“I believe that these are internal problems, first of all related to the economy. We have actually not been formulated, at least I did not see this and did not hear a clear plan for the transition from the one hundred percent centralized Soviet economy to the market. EFFECTED who led to what he led to “- said the ex-head of the Foreign Ministry.
Earlier, the head of the Communist Party of Gennady Zyuganov called on Gorbachev prison for the collapse of the country. According to politics, Gorbachev “crossed the will of peoples to live in a single Soviet country,” for which 77 percent of citizens voted.
December 25, 1991 Gorbachev folded his authority. On December 26, the Council of the Republicans of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a declaration on the termination of the existence of the USSR.