Stanislav Shushkevich is a successful scientist and politician

Stanislav Shushkevich (December 15, 1934) is a Belarusian scientist and politician. From 1991 to 1994 he was chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus. Most of all, he is known as the representative of Belarus, who signed the Belovezhsky agreements on the creation of the CIS.

Origin and years of study

Where did Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich start his life? His biography began in Minsk in a Polish-Belarusian family. His mother, Helena Razumovska, was an interpreter and writer who published in Polish publications, published in Belarus in the 1920s and 1930s, and her father was a Belarusian poet and writer. Three years after the birth of his son he was repressed, served time in the mines of Kuzbass, was released only in 1946. Returning to his homeland, he started teaching at a rural school. But according to the vile practice of Stalin's jailers, he was again arrested in 1949 and exiled to the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Finally returned to Belarus only in 1956.

An amazing thing, but the stigma of the "son of the enemy of the people", which spoiled (and even broke) the life of many peers Stanislav Shushkevich, apparently, did not affect his fate. In 1951 he graduated from the school, in the same year he entered the faculty of the prestigious Belarusian State University (BSU), in the year of his father's liberation he graduated from it, and immediately became a graduate student of the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR.

The beginning of a career in the Soviet period

After working briefly as a "maneas" in his native institute, Stanislav Shushkevich goes to the position of senior engineer at the SKB of the Minsk Radio Plant. At that time the plant was engaged in the development and manufacture of devices for physical research. An interesting episode is associated with this period, which Stanislav Shushkevich himself eagerly recalls. Biography brought him briefly not with anyone, but with the future official assassin of US President Kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald.

The fact is that in 1959 he came to the USSR on a tourist visa and stated his desire to stay in the USSR. After the refusal, he demonstratively tried to commit suicide. They met him and identified Minsk as their place of residence, and they sent him to work at a radio factory. Shushkevich, as a good command of English, was instructed to study Russian with the American. According to his memoirs, Oswald did not make any appreciable impression, looked listless and indifferent, and was a mediocre mechanic. However, this did not prevent him from acquiring a young wife in Minsk, with whom he soon returned to the States.

Scientific career in the USSR

In 1961, Stanislau Shushkevich returned to the Belarusian State University, where for six years he passed the path from a senior engineer to the head of a scientific laboratory. In 1967, he was appointed pro-rector for scientific work at the Minsk Radio Engineering Institute. According to the memoirs of Shushkevich himself, at the time of his new appointment, he was non-partisan. This circumstance made his work in a new place very difficult, since all important decisions at the institute were taken at the party committee without his participation. Turning to the party's hills, Shushkevich demanded a solution to the problem. As a result, he was immediately admitted to the Communist Party, which allowed him to continue working without problems.

Since 1967, for two years he has been working at the Institute as a pro-rector for science.

In 1969, Stanislav Shushkevich returned to the State University, where for seven years he became a professor and head of the department of nuclear physics. Since 1986, he works as a pro-rector of the State University for Science.

Home Polotkarya

Before its beginning Shushkevich Stanislav Stanislavovich was a famous Belarusian scientist, a member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, the author of several monographs, more than 150 articles and 50 inventions, had various state awards.

In 1990 he was elected first deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus. After an attempt at a coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991, he demanded the convocation of an extraordinary session of the parliament, but was denied by his Chairman, Nikolai Dementei.

After the victory of Boris Yeltsin over the putschists August 26 was elected and. about. Chairman of the Parliament, and on August 31 became its chairman. During his tenure in this capacity, he supported reforms towards a free-market economy.

Belovezhsky agreements

According to Shushkevich's recollections, he called Boris Yeltsin to the former recreation center of the CPSU Central Committee in Belovezhskaya Pushcha in December 1991, not to destroy the USSR, but in an attempt to establish a mechanism for future economic ties between Belarus and Russia without the participation of the allied bodies that Shushkevich was thinking of in the future Purely decorative, something like a loose confederation. The idea of inviting Leonid Kravchuk to the same place arose after Yeltsin's visit was approved.

That's how the three leaders of the Slavic republics, populated by fraternal peoples, having a common root, gathered in the forest. According to Shushkevich, it was possible to reach agreements on establishing economic ties between the three republics, but the question arose about whether it was necessary to apply for agreement to the President of the USSR Gorbachev. All three very much did not want to do this, but no one dared to openly offer to abandon the union treaty. Approximate Yeltsin Gennady Burbulis spoke in the role of the oracle, who uttered the fateful phrase for all of us about recognizing the USSR as having ceased to exist. Shushkevich recalls that at that moment he "wildly envied Burbulis".

On December 8, Stanislav Shushkevich signed a document along with Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk, according to which the Soviet Union ceased to exist and was transformed into the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

End of career

The further political career of our hero is very similar to the way of Leonid Kravchuk. An attempt to carry out radical market reforms, the monstrous inflation initiated by them, the depreciation of the money savings of the Belarusians - all this was set against healthy, non-comprador political forces, which in 1994 forced Shushkevich to resign. He also tried in the same year to register in history as the first President of Belarus (Stanislav Shushkevich), taking part in the presidential elections, but gained only 10% of the vote. Prudent Belarusians elected president Alexander Lukashenko, under whose leadership the country since 1995 has only growing GDP (the only one of all post-Soviet countries).

Since then, more than 20 years, Stanislau Shushkevich is in opposition to the Belarusian authorities. He occupies extremely nationalistic and at the same time pro-Western positions, affirms that from the end of the 18th century Belarus was a colony of Russia, and compares the current order in his country with the "third Reich".