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If the Soviet Union had been preserved, today’s world would be more stable, safer and fairer. This was announced by the former president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, in an interview with the British edition of The Times.
“What would the world be like if the Union was preserved, history does not know the conditional inclination. But I think the world would be better. It would be more stable, more secure, fairer,” Gorbachev said.
Emphasized that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not the “end result” of perestroika. “No way. And, of course, we didn’t want that“added the former Soviet leader.
Gorbachev acknowledged the existence of errors: the late reform of the party, the decentralization of the USSR, insufficiently bold economic reforms. At the same time, among the real results of this policy, he cites the nuclear disarmament agreements, the end of the Cold War, freedom of expression, assembly, religion, freedom to leave the country, alternative elections and a multi-party system.
“And most importantly, we brought the process of change to the point where it became impossible to reverse. That is why the August 1991 coup failed. Although the damage was enormous: it was a blow to the president and the Union. And then” Radicals and separatists have completed the Union without thinking about the consequences, “added Gorbachev.
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