boris yeltson, radical reformist, gorbachev's opponent, and of course, a pro-american.est supported him immediately. gorbachev's popularity rating had dropped dramatically, and people were looking for an alternative to him. goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, the situation was so bad that every day the separatists sent shivers down the soviet union spine. attempts to stop the separatists failed like all his other attempts. a man without a country was the title given to gorbachev by time, a magazine which had previously named him as the man of the year and the man of the decade. finally, a cold winter night, while a little snow had covered everywhere, gorbachev left the kremlin forever, and the soviet union left the world forever. у нас ещё времени много, я прекращаю свою деятельность на посту президента СССР, принимаю это решение по принципиальным соображениям. Я спокойно, смертельно пою, знаю, встретишь с любовью меня, чтоб со мной не случилось, смерть не страшна, с ней не раз мы встречали. степи, вот и теперь, надо мною, она кружится, ты меня ждёшь, у детской кроватки