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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.
According to him, there was a bottle of cognac, and everyone had a glass. From this bottle, everyone drank “no more than 100 grams all together “. At the same time, the drink still remained in the glasses.
“There was no food, it would only interfere”, – quotes his words “Newspaper.Ru”. At the same time, the work on the text of the Belovezhskaya Agreements was carried out in a creative atmosphere. According to him, everyone then “had some kind of fantastic hobby”.
Earlier, the former press secretary of the President of the USSR, Andrei Grachev, said that the Soviet Union could continue its existence in a democratic version. According to him, to do this, the country needed to adapt to new realities, but it was not possible to do this over the years of perestroika. He also believes that, despite the past 30 years, the USSR continues to remind itself of itself: in the formersome conflicts still remain unresolved in the republics.
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.