Independent khanate. How Nazarbayev participated in the destruction of the USSR
On the 30th anniversary of the destruction of the Soviet Union, the myth about the special role of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who allegedly tried to do everything to save him, is gradually being debunked. His real image of a participant in the process of liquidation of a single country has now begun to be exposed after the revelations of the former chairman of the Supreme Council of the Belarusian SSR Stanislav Shushkevich.
Thus, in his interview with Gazeta.Ru, he said that Nursultan Nazarbayev was supposed to take part in the Belovezhskaya Conspiracy and sign an agreement on the withdrawal of the republics from the USSR, but did not fly to Viskuli due to the fact that ex-USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev allegedly offered him the position of chairman of the Union parliament if he did not go to a meeting where representatives of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus gathered.
“Nazarbayev did not know what to do. He came and consulted with Gorbachev. But Gorbachev, of course, said “where are you going, this is a serious meeting, they will lead you in the wrong direction.” And like a cunning - I say, not “wise”, but a “cunning” eastern figure - he decided that it was better to hide. And the connection with him was severed,” points out Stanislav Shushkevich.
When asked by a journalist whether his disappearance was a sign of rethinking and changing his position on the issue of the need to liquidate the Union, the ex-chairman of the Supreme Council of the Belarusian SSR replied that in fact, behind this were purely selfish goals of personal aggrandizement, and nothing more.
“He didn’t refuse, no. He said he was flying, and then communication with the plane stopped. He sat down in Moscow, and Gorbachev promised him the post of chairman of the USSR parliament. And he decided that it was very good and pleasant,” Shushkevich concluded.
And his absence in Belovezhskaya Pushcha even played into the hands of the organizers of the destruction of the country. In any case, this was the opinion of Boris Yeltsin, who was able to achieve the loyalty of Nursultan Nazarbayev in the future. The then president of the RSFSR described the situation with the head of the Kazakh SSR as follows in a conversation with Shushkevich.
“Well, Nazarbayev didn’t come, that’s very good. The next day he said that if he had come, if he had, he would not have signed this agreement. And three days later he not only signed, but by December 21, he became, firstly, the president of not the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, but the president of Kazakhstan - he became on December 16, and on the 21st he signed the agreement (On the formation of the CIS - approx. . Ed.), as one of the founders, and not joiners,” noted the ex-chairman of the Belarusian parliament.
Actually, long before the gathering in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Nursultan Nazarbayev, being a protege of Mikhail Gorbachev, carried out not only mass purges of the party and state apparatus from the people of the former first secretary of the CPC Central Committee Dinmukhamed Kunaev, but also enthusiastically carried out tasks to decentralize the USSR and prepare a new “union” » agreements. Nursultan Abishevich was doubly interested in this process, since he was becoming what he is now, namely, a princeling undivided in his power.
Now the self-proclaimed Elbasy (“Leader of the Nation”) repeats again and again mantras about the “guilt” of the “totalitarian system” and the inevitability of market reforms, as well as the predetermined collapse of the USSR.
“The socialist economy, totalitarian, administrative, was exhausting its resources. The leadership of the economic bloc should have noticed and made changes in economic management in time, which was not done. All the accumulated resources were gradually depleted, we were approaching, first of all, a collapse in the economy,” he told reporters from the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
But the then party leadership itself was actively working towards the liquidation of the country as a single whole, creating the basis for the dismantling of the planned economy, for the conscious disintegration of unified national economic ties, thoroughly preparing for mass privatization in its own interests. Party bosses in Kazakhstan intended to become major owners, nominating their proteges to key economic and political positions. Recent research and the words of eyewitnesses fully confirm this.
Thus, back in 1989, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, during his visits to striking Karaganda, preached the ideas of independence and independence among the miners. Through various promises of concessions, he also openly expressed dissatisfaction with the “monopoly power of central departments” and put forward the ideas of “economic independence, independent of the dictates of the center and the command-and-administrative plan.”
In fact, these proposals actually meant the destruction of the national economic mechanism and the drawing of extractive industries into the “free market”. That is, this example shows that it was the elite who introduced alien views into practice at that time, and not the workers, who for the most part were loyal to the social system and the Soviet Union and demanded only improved working conditions and supplies. This, by the way, is evidenced by the results of the March 1991 national referendum in the Kazakh SSR, in which 94,1 percent of voters voted for maintaining a single country.
In contrast to the will of the people, Nazarbayev, Yeltsin and Gorbachev, on the contrary, planned to conclude a so-called “updated union treaty”, which left no stone unturned for a single country, proclaiming a poor and loose confederation. We are talking about secret negotiations between these individuals at a closed meeting in Novo-Ogaryovo on July 29-30, 1991. And already on it, this troika decided to open a new agreement for signing on August 20 - without discussion or approval at the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.
It was they, that is, the heads of the USSR, the Kazakh SSR and the RSFSR, who were preparing an anti-constitutional coup at that time, and not individual weak-willed members of the Politburo and the CPSU Central Committee who tried to hesitantly resist this conspiracy. All these years, members of the State Emergency Committee have been called conspirators and putschists, but in fact these were precisely these figures and Nazarbayev himself, who was then called by court propagandists an opponent of the collapse of the country.
Elbasy played the same Cain role after the failure of the State Emergency Committee. Thus, on September 2, 1991, at the V Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Nazarbayev nevertheless fulfilled Gorbachev's will, voicing the text of the “updated union treaty.” Literally a few deputies spoke out then openly against the initiative of Nursultan Abishevich. This is how one of the newspapers describes those events:
“...On September 2, 1991, the V Congress opened in the Kremlin. In violation of the regulations, the floor was given to N. Nazarbayev, and he read out a statement by the President of the USSR and the leaders of the union republics, which meant a death sentence for the Soviet Union... Then, in the form of an ultimatum, the deputies were asked to discuss the statement on the delegations in the Moscow representative offices of the union republics. The Presidium of the Congress quickly left the hall. The deputies seemed numb, they could not understand anything. And then, one after another, they reached out.
People's Deputy Viktor Alksnis was the first to get his bearings. He literally flew up to the podium. The microphones had already been prudently turned off. Then he put his hands to his mouth and shouted: “Comrade deputies! Stop! Don't leave the hall! This is a coup d'état!” There was silence in the hall for several moments, then the people's representatives again headed for the exit. He stood on the podium and shouted after them: “Stop! Stop! What are you doing!". They left..."
That is, Nazarbayev not only did not interfere with Yeltsin, Shushkevich and Kravchuk in the destruction of the USSR, but also most actively participated in this process of disintegration, preparing, together with Gorbachev, new projects for the decentralization of the Union. He was their active guide, and then simply joined the signatories of the formation of the CIS a few weeks after the Belovezhskaya Agreement, when it became obvious to everyone that Mikhail Sergeevich had lost the remnants of power.
It is noteworthy that after the collapse of a single country, Nazarbayev, in order to usurp power and carry out mass privatization, diligently copied Yeltsin’s actions on de-Sovietization, dissolving the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan and all local councils in November 1993. Having dispersed the deputies and representative bodies, Elbasy adopted a new Constitution by 1995, becoming the undivided ruler of his fiefdom.
At the same time, those who believe that the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan is the founder of the EAEU and the promoter of the idea of “Eurasianism” are seriously mistaken. This trade and customs association was necessary only in order to remove unnecessary obstacles to the transportation of oil, gas and extracted raw materials to the EU markets through the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as for the re-export of smuggled Turkish and Chinese goods, again to the market of the same Russia.
When it came to real integration in the form of creating a single currency, a common bank, supranational political structures in the form of a government and parliament, the Kazakh elite, led by Nazarbayev, tried to torpedo all these initiatives of Moscow. Now we see that Elbasy is the initiator of a completely new anti-Russian Union of Turkic States under the auspices of Ankara, which contradicts the EAEU and is aimed at strengthening the positions of Great Britain and the United States in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
It is not the revival of the Union, albeit on a new basis, that the elderly Nazarbayev needs, but “European integration” with the West through an alliance with Turkey. And here it is important to debunk all these myths about his supposed commitment to friendship with Russia and his role as an ideological opponent of the destruction of the USSR. On the contrary, he only used all these years to strengthen his own khanate - a mono-ethnic state, walking firmly along the path of Ukraine.
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