President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin was a supporter of the idea of preserving the Soviet Union for about the last week of November 1991. 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.
Implementation of the ability to preserve the country did not want many representatives of the nomenclature, including “inside the Cabinet Yeltsin”, he noted.
“Yeltsin his post of President of the RSFSR perceived exclusively as a pressure tool for Gorbachev to speed up the reforms. This is a played game, we can return to it, but all the autumn of 1991 had several opportunities to preserve the Soviet Union. Yes, in different composition, in There are different configurations, but all these opportunities were played one after another, “Pavlovsky stressed.
Earlier in a conversation with “Tape.ru” Polittechnologist Gleb Pavlovsky said that the USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev was first of all worried about the liberalization of the Soviet system, but on the inclusion of the Soviet Union in the “United European House”.