An accomplice of Yeltsin and Kravchuk in the collapse of the USSR has died
Tonight in Minsk at the age of 87, one of the ideologists of the collapse of the Soviet Union, a signatory of the Belovezhskaya Accords, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus in 1991-94, Stanislav Shushkevich, died.
His wife Irina reported this to Euroradio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Shushkevich was hospitalized at the end of April; he was unable to recover from a coronavirus infection and, despite the fact that he was discharged a couple of days ago, died tonight.
Even Belarusian political scientists refuse to comment on his death.
“I don’t comment on the death of Shushkevich. About the dead it is either good or nothing. In this case - nothing. And yes, he was the chairman of the Supreme Council, and not the first president of Belarus,” writes Alexei Dzermant, a Belarusian expert close to current President Alexander Lukashenko.
“Shushkevich, who signed the Belovezhskaya agreements for Belarus, has died. It’s better to remain silent about such deceased people than to say anything,” Russian political scientist Armen Gasparyan supported him.
“Shushkevich died. Of those who signed the Belovezhskaya Accords, only Kravchuk (an amazingly tenacious nit) survived. The funny thing is that Gorbachev is still alive! Many today write that we need to denounce the Belovezhskaya Accords. The idea is good,” notes former speaker of the DPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, political strategist Konstantin Dolgov in his blog.
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