The leaders of the three republics that are part of the USSR – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – did not plan to decide on the exit from the Soviet Union. Stanislav Shushkevich said about it in an interview with Lente.ru, at that time, the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR).
According to Shushkevich, the leadership of the republic intended to negotiate with the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin on help with oil and gas. “But it turned out that we need to bow to Gorbachev’s legs again so that he sanctioned the decision of Yeltsin. We seem to want Gorbachev to disagree, but again it should support him so that he helped us,” said Shushkevich.
He noted that it was in that situation that the phrase “of the USSR as a geopolitical reality and the subject of international law ceases to exist.” Shushkevich claims that its author was the first deputy chairman of the Government of the RSFSR Gennady Burbulis. (Burbulis was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1971 to 1990. From 1973 to 1983 he taught dialectical materialism and Marxist-Leninist philosophy in the Ural Polytechnic Institute.)
“We thought about those who are in fact and what political forces we present. Then we realized that it was we can change everything. Because there were representatives of the three republics that created the Soviet Union in 1922,” said In an interview, Shushkevich.
in his opinion, the decision was legitimate, given that the RSFSR, BSSR and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), together with the Transcaucasian SFSR (Socialist Federal Soviet Republic), were the founders of the USSR in 1922. At the time of the collapse of the USSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR broke off, without leaving the successor.