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TradCatKnight: Gorbachev says former Soviet republics could unite to form new union state
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 16:29
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Gorbachev says former Soviet republics could unite to form new union state
Gorbachev says former Soviet republics could unite to form new union state
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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has told reporters that he thought it was possible that a new union state could be formed from former Soviet republics, but only if the countries voluntarily agreed to join.
“Not the Soviet Union, but a new union state. I think that a new union is possible,” Gorbachev said in an interview with TASS timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the dissolution of the USSR. “It could be within the same borders and formed with the same states, but voluntarily,” he added.
Gorbachev also said that he had stepped down as president of USSR without a fight in 1991 after leaders of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Soviet Republics signed the so called Belovezha Accords, which initiated the collapse of the USSR, because a civil war could have broken out if he had attempted to arrest them.
“I think I should have broken up with this pack; I have no other words for them,” he said.
“I think this all smelled of civil war. This was dangerous. I made a different move – I gave up my power and left my post in order to avoid bloodshed,” he said, while insisting that he is not trying to shirk responsibility for the USSR’s collapse, even though he tried to prevent it “till the very end.”
In the interview, Gorbachev didn’t miss the opportunity to once again blame the signing of the Belovezha Accords, and all the consequent events, on Boris Yeltsin’s immense appetite for power.
Gorbachev also said that he had stepped down as president of USSR without a fight in 1991 after leaders of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Soviet Republics signed the so called Belovezha Accords, which initiated the collapse of the USSR, because a civil war could have broken out if he had attempted to arrest them.
“I think I should have broken up with this pack; I have no other words for them,” he said.
“I think this all smelled of civil war. This was dangerous. I made a different move – I gave up my power and left my post in order to avoid bloodshed,” he said, while insisting that he is not trying to shirk responsibility for the USSR’s collapse, even though he tried to prevent it “till the very end.”
In the interview, Gorbachev didn’t miss the opportunity to once again blame the signing of the Belovezha Accords, and all the consequent events, on Boris Yeltsin’s immense appetite for power.
However, in commenting to the Lenta.ru website, Russian Communist Party MP Valery Rashkin branded Gorbachev’s latest remarks as populist and provocative. Read more »
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