The article considers, first, dynamics of the formation of inevitability of such decisions being taken at crucial stages of the life of the state and, second, the politico-socio-economic consequences of the ‘centaurism’ being embodied, as a rule, from above, by the ruling top of the state. On the basis of the classification – presented by the author – of the phenomenon of ‘centaurism’, the influence is demonstrated, of the multi-level system of particular prerequisites, upon the taking of contradictory decisions on the global level.