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Former Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR Stanislav Shushkevich named the culprit of the collapse of the USSR. According to the politician, Gennady Burbulis, the first Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in 1991-1992, pulled the trigger of the collapse of the USSR. He expressed his opinion in the comment ”
Burbulis proposed the phrase “the USSR as a geopolitical reality and a subject of international law ceases to exist,” Shushkevich noted.
According to the former chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR, Burbulis’ words made a huge impression on him.
“Then I realized that we were with [the leaders of the RSFSR and The Ukrainian SSR Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk] are trying to make an important decision and that we need to think very seriously about how to implement it,” the politician said.
Earlier, former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev told That a quarrel arose between the former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and the first head of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin after the signing of the Belovezhskaya Agreements.
Meanwhile, the former chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR Stanislav Shushkevich, who participated in the development and signing of the Belovezhskaya Agreements, said that while working on the text of the policy, they drank cognac without snacks. At the same time, the work on the text of the Belovezhskaya Agreements was carried out in a creative atmosphere. According to him, everyone hasthen “there was some fantastic hobby.”
The Soviet Union ceased to exist on December 25, 1991. Then Mikhail Gorbachev, in an address to citizens, announced his resignation from the post of president. Before that, representatives of the RSFSR, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belovezhskaya Agreement on the termination of the existence of the USSR and the creation of the CIS.