Head of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Khasbulatov: it was impossible to turn the USSR into a democratic state “Moscow speaks” stated that the preservation of the USSR and its transformation into a democratic state were impossible. This is how he responded to the words of Andrei Grachev, the representative of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, who stated in his book “The Last Day of the USSR” (Le jour ou l'URSS a disparu) that the Soviet authorities had a chance to preserve the Union in a more democratic version.
“Gorbachev himself did not agree with this point of view. (…) Gorbachev himself led to the fact that in fact there was a complete discord already. In Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the last blow was struck at the fragile, virtually nonexistent state, “Khasbulatov said.
The head of the Supreme Soviet called Gorbachev a broken man who made no attempts to preserve the Union after his” imprisonment “in Foros .
August (1991 – the month when Gorbachev was blocked in Foros – approx. “Lenta.ru” ), and the final coup led by Yeltsin was on December 7. What did Gorbachev do during these months? He did not even form a union government, he did not manage to create a truly legislative body from the Supreme Soviet, which would powerfully dispose of, which would make decisions more damage than the actions of the first president of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin, but public opinion often portrays the president of the USSR as a martyr because of the Foros events.
“Gorbachev was lucky in that he was detained in Foros. He appeared as a martyr, so all the troubles, all the accusations, all the protests against him, they were smoothed to some extent, ”he noted.
The union could have survived, and the country's leadership followed this path throughout all six years of perestroika, and two things prevented such a transformation: the coup of 1991 and the meeting in Belovezhskaya Pushcha.