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Ex President The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR Stanislav Shukevich named the culprit of the collapse of the USSR. According to the politician, he triggered the disintegration of the USSR Gennady Burbulis, the first deputy prime minister of Russia in 1991-1992. He expressed his opinion in a comment on Lente.ru.
Burbulis proposed the phrase “The USSR as a geopolitical reality and the 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 [the leaders of the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk] and I had a goal to make an important decision and that we had to think very seriously about how to implement it,” he said. Former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said that there was a quarrel between former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and the first head of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin after the Belovezhskaya agreements were signed.
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Meanwhile, former President of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR, Stanislav Shukevich, who was involved in developing and signing the Belovezhskaya Agreement, said that during the work, we drank cognac without a snack. According to him, everyone “had a fantastic hobby.”
The Soviet Union ceased to exist on December 25, 1991. Then Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation to the presidency in a speech to citizens. agreement on the end of the existence of the USSR and the creation of the CIS.