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Soviet breakup was not necessary : Gorbachev
MOSCOW, Dec 28: Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Sunday that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a "tragic mistake" and defended Russia's hardline Congress as setting the right course for the country, reports AP.
”1 think It was not necessary," Gorbachev said of the Soviet breakup speaking on Moscow's Channel One television.
"It had very hard consequences for the whole country, for all of the republics. I have thought and I still think that ft was a tragic mistake. We will face the consequences of it for
a long, long tome," Gorbachev said.
Gorbachev denied accusations that he left behind a legacy of crumbling economy and ethnic conflicts, blaming his successors for the trouble.
"There have been, promises that the Commonwealth (of Independent States) will give us the possibility to resolve all the problems," he said. But its problems "were not only left unresolved but became even more acute."
Gorbachev, 61. resigned on Dec 25, 1991, following the collapse of seven decades of central Kremlin authority. The Soviet Union's demise was
brought about by many of the political reforms that Gorbachev himself unleashed after coming to power In 1985.
Gorbachev remains popular abroad but is widely criticized at home, with the hard-liners blaming him for the collapse of the Soviet system. Liberal critics say he had failed to address pressing political and economic issues, only making current free-market reform harder to achieve.
But Gorbachev defended his tacties of limited reforms, saying: "What is happening now In Russia and the Commonwealth countries proves that our line, that tactics that we
adhered to. were necessary ....
Whatever began In 1985 is continuing," he added. "Do you think that the Gorbachev epoch ts over? No, It was only the dawn, not even midday. We would not have today without what was started in 1985."'
Gorbachev accused hts political rival, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, of losing control over himself at this moth's Congress of People’s Deputies.
Russia s highest legislative body, dominated by former Communists, forced Yeltsin to accept painful compromises and abandon his reformist acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the architect of eco
nomic reforms. Gaidar was replaced by Viktor Chernomyrdin, a conservative Industrial manager.
Gorbachev said the Congress offered the welcome centrist alternative to Impulsive Yeltsin and the radicals on both sides.
"I thtnk the Congress has provided a chance,' he said. "People who try to portray tt as a Congress of retrogrades are
"At the crucial moment, when the president (Yeltsin) lost his nerve, fl was the Congress which demonstrated self-possession