Khasbulatov replied to Gorbachev's representative about the chance to save the USSR
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