Berianidze
12-12-2005, 08:27 PM
Belarus’ Lukashenko Says U.S. Was Behind Soviet Union’s Collapse
MosNews
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday that the U.S. president George Bush was behind the “sponsored” collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Speaking to Russian journalists in the Belarus capital of Minsk, Lukashenko called the collapse of the Soviet Union a tragic mistake, the RIA-Novosti agency reported.
He added there had been no reasons for the collapse. If it happened by itself, “it would happen later and on natural reasons,” the Belarus leader said. “Unfortunately, in politics such things do not happen without a reason,” Lukashenko said. “All this was not for free, large sums had been paid for this.”
The Belarus leader said that Russian hostage rescue task force Alpha, should have gathered the leaders of the former Soviet republics who had agreed to break up the Soviet Union behind barbed wire “and let them then call Bush Sr. and report him on what they were signing.”
On December 8, 1991, Russian president Boris Yeltsin, Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk, and Chair of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich concluded the Belovezh agreement abolishing the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States, or the CIS.
MosNews
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday that the U.S. president George Bush was behind the “sponsored” collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Speaking to Russian journalists in the Belarus capital of Minsk, Lukashenko called the collapse of the Soviet Union a tragic mistake, the RIA-Novosti agency reported.
He added there had been no reasons for the collapse. If it happened by itself, “it would happen later and on natural reasons,” the Belarus leader said. “Unfortunately, in politics such things do not happen without a reason,” Lukashenko said. “All this was not for free, large sums had been paid for this.”
The Belarus leader said that Russian hostage rescue task force Alpha, should have gathered the leaders of the former Soviet republics who had agreed to break up the Soviet Union behind barbed wire “and let them then call Bush Sr. and report him on what they were signing.”
On December 8, 1991, Russian president Boris Yeltsin, Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk, and Chair of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich concluded the Belovezh agreement abolishing the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States, or the CIS.