The establishment of a new form of socialism proposed by the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev , – not the path the Soviet state should have taken. Details of the confrontation with the politician were given by the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin in an interview with a journalist Andrey Maksimov ; The video recording of the conversation was posted by Yeltsin Center in ” VKontakte “.
According to Yeltsin, he knew then that “half measures” and “chattering” Gorbachev would not lead to anything. “It all started with the 19th party conference, when I realized that Gorbachev and I were not on our way. We should have said clearly and clearly: I am against Gorbachev,” he added.
According to the ex-president, at that time there was a fear that a civil war would start, so it was necessary to act very carefully. He noted that “he pulled with the Union Treaty until the last moment,” because he did not agree with two points: “All taxes go to the Union treasury, and the Union treasury begins to divide again, and no one knows what will remain for Russia.”
“I was categorically against this, I thought that it was necessary to hire union bodies to perform union functions. Hire and pay them. Each republic pays for the performance of these functions, some of its share, and taxes remain with themselves. It was a principled very position, we parted “, – Yeltsin explained.
In his opinion, when the Soviet Union began to fall apart, Gorbachev could have saved “something like the Swiss Confederation.”
In early December, Yeltsin’s advisor Sergey Shakhrai called Gorbachev the main culprit in the collapse of the USSR. He specified that the Union began to disintegrate in the fall of 1991. “And the main reason for this was the rapid disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which ended by October 1. Somewhere in court, like in the Baltics, but somewhere through self-dissolution. This process was launched by Gorbachev,” Shakhrai explained.
Yeltsin was the president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. On April 23, 2007, he died at the age of 76 and was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
In December 1991, the leaders of the RSFSR, the Ukrainian and Byelorussian SSR concluded the Belovezhskaya agreements, after the ratification of which the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Soon Gorbachev resigned.