16.12.2022, Moscow
Ideological basis for Soviet Union destruction during “perestroika” was caused by the actions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) leaders, said Oleg Matveychev, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, at a roundtable of the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISR) on December 15.
According to Matveychev, the USSR began to collapse from the top, when during Perestroika a huge number of decisions were made which undermined the foundation of the state. The deputy noted that the ideological basis of the USSR existence was “taken out” of the people with the beginning of Glasnost’ policy.
Matveychev stressed that the consequences of the CPSU leaders actions were a huge tragedy for ordinary communists.
In turn, Aleksey Martynov, director of the Institute of Modern States, said that the USSR did not collapse, but was destroyed “deliberately, professionally, and by very specific people”. According to him, the Soviet Union, built by the titanic efforts of all its people, was destroyed in the late 80s by the ruling class, which was the Communist Party.
The USSR was created on December 30, 1922. On December 8, 2022 Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin would not celebrate the centennial of the formation of the USSR.
On December 8, 1991, the leaders of the three republics of the USSR, Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk, and Stanislav Shushkevich, signed the Belovezhye Accords, in which they declared the termination of the USSR and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
On December 11, 1991, the USSR Constitutional Oversight Committee declared that the Belovezhye Accords had no legal force. According to the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1978, such an issue could only be considered by the Congress of People’s Deputies of the RSFSR.
Nevertheless, the decision was ratified first by the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, and then by the relevant Soviets of the USSR republics. On December 25, President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that he was ceasing to serve as president of the USSR. On December 26, 1991 the Council of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a declaration on the dissolution of the USSR.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
