One of the key factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union was the refusal of the 6th article of the USSR Constitution, which enshrined the leading role of the CPSU. A political scientist, Director of the Kiev Center for Political Studies and Conflictology, Mikhail Pogrebinsky, as part of a special project to the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, was told about this in a conversation with “Tape.ru”.
“The CPSU played the role of the only institutional fastening, glue, without it to keep the country from the collapse was already impossible,” said Pogrebin.
In his opinion, the abolition of the leading role of the CPSU is the very case when “was aimed in communism, and got into Russia.”
Earlier in a conversation with the “ribbon.ru” political analyst Oleg Dodkov called an attempt to preserve the USSR and create a union of sovereign states (SSG) in 1991 “Agonia, issued for childbirth.” According to him, during the negotiations on the signing of the Union Treaty in 1991, all participants in the Novoyogarev process pursued their goals, and no one knew how a new confederative state should look like.
March 14, 1990 was adopted by the law “On the establishment of the post of President of the USSR and amendments and additions to the USSR Constitution”. The 6th article of the USSR Constitution on the leading role of the CPSU was canceled. After that, within the party, the struggle of the factions was launched inside the party, which weakened the control of the center and over the allies, and over the Union republics.