How the USSR was ruined. The crash of superpower

“The Great Geopolitical Catastrophe” - this book confirms the correctness of the words of President Putin about the death of the USSR as a terrible tragedy that turned out to be colossal human and economic losses. However, it was not the worst of the possible scenarios - 25 years ago it was impossible to exclude either a full -scale civil war, or even a nuclear apocalypse. In reality, it was not a complete collapse, but the “half -life” of the Soviet Union - at least the Russian Federation at least the Russian Federation managed to save the cost of incredible efforts and huge victims.
What forces were ruined by the USSR and why did they not manage to finish Russia? Thanks to whom we stayed on the edge and did not die under the wreckage of the collapsed superpower? How to revive the Russian state from the ashes of the Soviet Union?
Being not just a witness, but one of the main participants in the events, Ruslan Khasbulatov talks about what he saw and experienced extremely frankly, without bypassing even the most acute moments, without silence of his own mistakes, nor the names of the main culprits and customers of the great geopolitical catastrophe.
From the beginning of the “perestroika” to the suicidal “parade of sovereignty”, from the criminal conspiracy of the KGB, which organized a coup d"etat, to the failure of the rebellion of the GKChP, from Belovezhsky fraud to the “dissolution” of the USSR - these memoirs allow you to look behind the scenes On the darkest pages of recent history