The first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said how he witnessed the quarrel of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin shortly after the signing of Belovezhsky agreements on the collapse of the USSR.
According to Nazarbayev, he rejected the invitation of Yeltsin to come to Belovezhskaya Pushcha and put his signature under the document, which stated the collapse of the Soviet Union. Instead, he flew to Moscow and the day after the Belovezhsky session came to the reception to Gorbachev, RIA Novosti reports.
“I came in the morning at the appointed time, sat, talked, after some time Yeltsin comes. Of course, Gorbachev says:” Well, what did you do? And what do you want? So what will happen to nuclear weapons? What will happen to the uniform armed forces? “Yeltsin jumped out and says:” You’re coming up with me? “-” I do not interrogate, I ask, answer. “-” I’m not going to answer you, “said Nazarbayev this dialogue in Movie Naila Asker-Zade “30 years without a union”, which came out on the channel “Russia 1”.
According to Nazarbayev, Gorbachev said Yeltsin that while he remains president of the Soviet Union “:” He (Yeltsin) got up from his place, looked like, looked like his chair and says: “Yes, while you are the president. And in This, on this chair I will sit. ” Then the overall, swearing, at high tones, “recalls the ex-president of Kazakhstan.
The Soviet Union ceased to exist on December 25, 1991, when President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in appeal to the Soviet people announced the termination of his activities as president. This was preceded by an agreement signed on December 8 by the leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, which declared the cessation of the existence of the USSR and proclaimed the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. This act entered the story as a Belovezhskaya Agreement.