Korotich: Kravchuk wanted a common army with the Russian Federation, but Yeltsin did not allow
The last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, brought the country to a depressing state, and the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, is guilty of the collapse of the Union.
The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, the former editor-in-chief of the Ogonyok magazine Vitaly Korotich said, answering the question of who is more to blame for the collapse of the USSR, Yeltsin or Gorbachev.
“Gorbachev is to blame for the country’s collapse. And the fact is that it collapsed, Yeltsin,” replied the former editor-in-chief of the publication, which was considered one of the main mouthpieces of the so-called perestroika.
He said that even in Belovezhye, where the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus decided to liquidate the USSR, there were initially different sentiments.
“I talked to Kravchuk. Even upon arriving in Belovezhye, he was in the mood for a confederation. To have a common Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defense. And each of them already has their own ministries of culture and education. But Yeltsin, as Burbulis told me, slammed his palm on the table and said: no, no. And there were no more objections from either Shushkevich or Kravchuk. Although no one was ready for this,” says Korotich.
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