President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev first of all worried about the liberalization of the Soviet system, but on the inclusion of the Soviet Union in the “United European House”. About this in an interview with Lente.ru, in the framework of the special project to the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR, the Polittechnologist Gleb Pavlovsky told.
According to him, it was a realistic strategy – to solve numerous internal problems of the USSR, joining the European political project.
“But Gorbachev had little cards for such a big game. Although, in addition to the trump card in the form of Soviet nuclear weapons, he still had a trump card in the form of an eastern bloc – this is a very valuable asset that could be correctly exchanged. Just it was not necessary for this. pull for three to four years, “said the political technologist.
Pavlovsky added that the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin took advantage of the strategic weakness of Gorbachev to strike.
“And he did not offer the West some special rate, other than Gorbachevsky, he just had a perfect time. And the strike of Yeltsin turned out to be enough to overtake the Soviet Union with Gorbachev,” Pavlovsky resums.
Earlier, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus in 1991-1994, Stanislav Shushkevich in a conversation with “Tape.ru” said that the highest officials and heads of government of the three Union republics, which on December 8, 1991 gathered in Belovezhskaya Forest, from the very beginning planned to decide on the exit from the USSR.