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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. This was told by the ex-President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.
According to him, he received an invitation from Yeltsin to visit Belovezhskaya Pushcha and sign an agreement on the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, he rejected it. The next day he arrived in Moscow. There the politician tried to meet with Gorbachev.
In the film, Naili Asker-zade “30 years without a Union”, Nazarbayev told how he came there in the morning at the appointed time. They were already “sitting there, talking”, and after a while Yeltsin came in. Then Gorbachev said: “Well, what have you done? And what do you want?”
He then asked what would happen to nuclear weapons and the unified armed forces. To this Yeltsin replied: “Are you interrogating me?””To this, Gorbachev said that he was not satisfied with the interrogation, but simply asked, but at the same time demanded an answer.
“I’m not going to answer you,” Nazarbayev quoted Yeltsin’s answer.
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 President Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation in an address to the citizens. 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.