Many factors, among whom a failure in the economy, the lack of strong will from the leadership, led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, said the first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev in an interview for the film “30 years without the Union” on the TV channel “Russia-1”.
“the collapse was predetermined. Much reasons – the socialist economy broke its resources. We can say that there was no strong will of the head. Then the objective factors, in Vilnius, in the Baltic States, began to excitement. And none of the leadership of the Soviet Union, including Gorbachev, did not explain what happened there, what happened there. It turned away the Baltic Republic from the Soviet Union, “said Nazarbayev.
According to the first president of Kazakhstan, the transition from the planned economy was terrible, since there were previously the relations between the countries that were previously part of the USSR.
Heads of the RSFSR, the Belarusian and Ukrainian SSR Boris Yeltsin, Stanislav Shushkevich and Leonid Kravchuk on December 8, 1991 in the residence of Viskuli (Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Belarus) signed an agreement on the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States, in the preamble of which it was stated that the USSR as “the International Subject Rights and geopolitical reality “From now on, it ceases to exist.