Who destroyed the Soviet Union?

 "People who have already seen themselves as leaders of transnational corporations who have taken into their own hands the so-called public property. They wanted guarantees. 

 

The desire of the elites in the national republics to fence themselves off from Moscow coincided with the desire of the Russian elites to fence themselves off from a possible revenge of Soviet Union structures. 

 

To guarantee their property, it was necessary to interrupt the legitimacy of the previous government. So that no one says: "You violated such and such a law of the Soviet Union and received this property illegitimately." The elite sought to create an impenetrable barrier. But not only the elite. Many people wanted the page of history to turn over, so that it was obvious that there would be no return to the times of Brezhnev and Andropov."