Alternative history - how Lukashenko was going to prevent the collapse of the USSR
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko claims that in 1991 he personally proposed to USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev a plan to disrupt the signing of the Belovezhskaya Accords
He stated this at a press conference in Minsk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If Gorbachev had listened to me then, a snotty deputy, we would now live in a single country. When they arrived in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, we had a parliamentary meeting, and I raised this issue. Sorry, the KGB and our leadership have described themselves. I suggested: allow me to go to the border, I served there, and by morning everything will be isolated. No telephones will work, the bathhouse will work, alcohol will be delivered by car, and they will not even try to call anyone. That is, I proposed to localize them there,” Lukashenko said.
According to him, the plan was rejected by the then Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich and the head of government Vyacheslav Kebich.
“I suggested surrounding the residence with barbed wire, and no one would flinch. Because the president's security service was our guys. They did not agree with what was happening there. Burbulis and Shakhrai ruled there. They were drinking, it was terrible what was happening, without any romance, just everyday life. We went to the bathhouse, drank, forgot, signed, forgot again. They called Grandpa Bush and reported. And there everything was elementary: barbed wire, there was a small space, we didn’t touch the bathhouse and a few rooms, the phones were turned off and write something else. Ours chickened out. And Gorbachev and Nursultan, who did not have time to arrive, would remain. There was no need for any machine guns. Everything could not have been more prosaic. Why, you can’t return anything,” Lukashenko said.
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