The last day of the USSR. Evidence of an eyewitness. Grachev A.S.

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union broke up. An unprecedented historical experiment, begun by the 1917 revolution, crashed. Andrei Grachev was the last press secretary of Mikhail Gorbachev. It was he who on December 25, 1991 declared the international press and the stunned world about the death of the USSR. Why did the Gorbachev perestroika - an attempt to save the state through its modernization - ended with the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Empire? Why didn’t Mikhail Gorbachev use military and power levers to preserve his power? Whose actions or inaction led to the collapse of the USSR: conservatives, democrats, nationalists or foreign “well -wishers”? One of those who led the Soviet Union until the last minutes of the existence of this state answers these and other pressing questions. Three decades have passed. -With his nocrologist Andrei Serafimovich Grachev finally escorts the USSR in history and offers to look into the future, but also without illusions.