his goal was to transform the union on the basis of a new union treaty, transforming it into a confederation of sovereign states. at the time of the work on this treaty, as far as i remember the baltic republics were no longer part of the union, so the remaining ones were roughly in agreement with the confederacy. but he was a soft man who stood up to the andropov kgb apparatus which wanted to take power into their own hands by dividing the ussr into completely independent pieces. yeltsin, the siloviki, nazarbayev, lukashenko and other heads of republics wanted to become their own kings. his individual faults were that market reforms were very slow and did not keep up with political freedoms.
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