 In 1990, he was one of the founders of a hard-line group "Soyuz" within the USSR Supreme Soviet.He once proposed the ousting of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev from power, dissolving the parliament, outlawing all parties, the declaration of martial law and the handing of power to a Military "Committee of National Salvation", which would avoid the disintegration of the Soviet Union.He has described the internationally non-recognized Transnistrian Republic as the base from which the restoration of the Soviet Union would begin.