in october and december 1988, the supreme council adopted laws on constitutional reform, the changes were quite revolutionaryconfiguration of the highest bodies of the union government was changing, and then it had to change, and the entire power pyramid was placed at the very top of the full-powered congress of people's deputies of the ussr numbering 2250 people. it was reminiscent of early forms of the times of the october revolution, and with separate features, even the old zemstvo cathedrals, for example, in retro style , the representation of original soviet ones was resumed. estates to them. according to the quota , a third of the seats were allocated to us at the congress of their representatives without elections , the communist party of the komsomol, the academy of sciences, unions, journalists, writers, filmmakers, women, and so on received. here it is representation and religious organizations. 2/3 of the deputies to the union congress were to be elected for citizens, but according to a complicated the procedure in which administrative filters were hidden, capable of weeding out dangerous radicals