Companion of Gorbachev spoke about the missed opportunity to save the USSR
Gorbachev's press secretary Grachev: the USSR could continue to exist as a voluntary union The USSR could continue to exist in a democratic version of a voluntary union. The last press secretary of the President of the Soviet Union Andrei Grachev wrote about the missed opportunity to preserve the union in his book “The Last Day of the USSR” (Le jour ou l'URSS a disparu), published in France, RIA Novosti reports. To him, in order to preserve the USSR, it was necessary to adapt it to the new world and society, on which six years of perestroika were spent, but this was not done. At the same time, an associate of the former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev said that, according to the ex-head of state, two events prevented the preservation of the USSR: the coup in August 1991 and the Belovezhskaya meeting of the three presidents. Grachev, in