15.08.2021, Minsk.
Yeltsin and Gorbachev were responsible for the disintegration of the USSR, the President of Belarus said in a film by Nailya Asker-zade “30 years after GKChP,” RIA Novosti reported on August 15.
“Of course, it was Yeltsin and Gorbachev,” Lukashenko said in the film answering a question regarding who was personally responsible for the disintegration of the Soviet Union. According to Lukashenko, the first president of the USSR and the first president of Russia extended their “personal fight for power” to the entire country.
According to the Belarusian leader, the leaders of that period wanted to normalize internal relations in the USSR, which became another factor of its collapse. “Well, this is a simplified interpretation, but there is a big meaning in it,” he added.
The Belovezha events, Lukashenko believes, demonstrated “stupidity of the USSR leaders and their inability to govern the country.” At the same time, the president believes that it was not only the top officials of the USSR that “buried” the Soviet Union, but “it buried itself.”
On December 8, 1991, the leaders of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk, and Stanislav Shushkevich signed the Belovezha Accord, “The Agreement to Establish the Commonwealth of Independent States,” which formalized the ultimate disintegration of the USSR.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
