Putin expressed his attitude to the collapse of the Soviet Union – Opinion

President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with leaders of political parties, the Kremlin said that the Soviet Union did not have to collapse, it was possible to follow the path of democratic reforms, but the Communist party promoted destructive for the country.

“You know how I feel about the collapse of the Soviet Union. You didn’t really need to do. Could the story of the conversion, including the democratic character without it. But I want to draw your attention to the fact that the head of our former Fatherland, the USSR, was a Communist party. Not some other which promoted the idea of nationalism, or other destructive ideas that are detrimental for any country,” – said Putin, reports RIA “Novosti”.

on the night of 18 to 19 August 1991, senior Soviet leadership who disagree with the policies of Gorbachev’s reforms and draft a new Union Treaty that created the State emergency Committee in the USSR (GKCHP of the USSR). August 19, 1991, entered the history of the state as the August coup. In this day held an attempt to remove Gorbachev from the presidency and to change its course.

a Few dozen tanks are very close to the House of the Supreme Council and the government of the Russian Federation on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment (the White house). Resistance to the coup was headed by the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin and the Russian leadership. Yeltsin signed decrees No. 59 and No. 61, in which the creation of the emergency Committee were qualified as a coup attempt; the Federal Executive authorities, including law enforcement agencies, was reassigned to the President of the Russian Federation.