According to the Vesti.Ru website, Putin answered the question of what mistakes of the past he would like to avoid.
Putin explained that the Soviet-era Constitutions contained the Leninist thesis on the right to secession of republics from the USSR, while the procedure for such secession was not prescribed.
According to Putin, as a result, the republic, which was part of the USSR, received “a huge amount of traditional historical Russian lands” and could leave the Soviet Union not “with what came”, but “dragging” gifts from the Russian of the people. "
He added that the 1977 Constitution "prescribed the exclusive monopoly of the Communist Party to power." At the same time, Putin continued, the Communist Party became the core of the state system and linked its own destiny, its group interests with the interests of the whole country.
The President emphasized that when the Communist Party began to crumble from within, the country also began to crumble behind it.
“This is the time bomb laid back in 1922 during the formation of the Soviet Union,” the president said.
He stressed that Russia should avoid such things. Putin expressed confidence that the amendments to the Constitution of Russia will strengthen Russian statehood and create conditions for the progressive development of the country in the coming decades.
Earlier, Putin signed a decree “On the official publication of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as amended.”