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the nineteenth nine hundred ninety one monday. morning teacher tatiana yakovlev her switched her t.v. on and saw the following picture of the usual programming every channel was broadcasting tchaikovsky's famous ballot. at port of call i turned the t.v. on to check the latest news and i was so surprised to see swan lake everywhere i was switching the t.v. channels for a long time thinking maybe there was something wrong with my to be set. at the same time as the ballet broadcast more than seven hundred tanks and on the personnel carriers building stations in the streets the plotters were in the kremlin. meanwhile moscow's so-called white house was at the

center of civil resistance at the time it housed the russian parliament where the people's deputies met in session on the part of the it was past seven in the morning when the security chief janes in my place. when i opened the door it's old me i had better go to the white hat. right away. as far as i could tell there was a coup going on in the country that's how i learned about it we decided to take a roundabout route instead of going straight to this building where. the coup was led by top brass and high ranking communist officials they had expected to get support from the population who were dissatisfied with the long drawn process of perestroika. they decided to make short work of gorbachev reforms . the situation was quite all right the country wasn't turmoil.

there was a revolt of the hungry but able standing in line for sausages stoop to fist fights that they were pervis of sort of jizz on the consumer market. but the country's president waved good bye to everybody and headed down south to the career to relax . the crimean peninsula southern shore soviet president mikhail gorbachev's private residence in the village of force both it and scores of surrounding hector's it came a prison for the head of state. here he spent several days and what amounted to confinement. but there were about this site can be seen from all sides you get an almost bird's eye view of it from the mountain a rude leading to the residence can easily be blocked with stones after those events the joke here was that gorbachev's residence must have been deliberately built in this place so that he could be easily cut off from the outside world is

going to go through where the. k.g.b. colonel tolstoy was directly involved in the events of those days he's a direct descendant a name sake of a celebrated russian novelist leo tolstoy. before he rose to the rank of colonel he served as a bodyguard on august the eighteenth one nine hundred ninety one top k.g.b. officials ordered him to block all exits from the gorbachev residence of that i have no idea what would have happened if gorbachev and others had tried to escape from the residence or what i do think he would have faced very unpleasant consequences for. this is exclusive footage of the residence of the first savior president the splendid park was laid out almost on bare rocks this had special significance because gorbachev was known to be very fond of strolling by the

seaside. what is released arizona seeders these pines and these shrubs were all planted just before the territory was to be commissioner at in one nine hundred eighty eight will start but it was a short while before mikhail gorbachev's first visit here yes. the crimean residence was code named terra trees and k.g.b. documentation the interior design of the main building reflected the wishes of ray so go over the president's wife she was with mikhail gorbachev throughout the force or deal. with those who really built what i would describe as internal defenses their men carrying guns with live ammunition were posted all over the place they were under strict orders not to allow provocation he broke.

the serbian president study was on the second floor close to the hole it was here that mikhail gorbachev learned about his complete isolation from the outside world . gorbachev study looks just like it was back then for this is his desk he would have watched them back telephone was meant for communicating with government officials. for the lying was shut down at four pm on august eighteenth what. gorbachev remained in his residence moreover measures to isolate him were reinforced still further valarie shah was the one who got at the gates to the residence during two k.g.b. officers from moscow kept a close eye on him along with other local agents. special measures were taken with a truck was stationed on the help prevent helicopters from touching down but

a tractor with a trailer outside the gates was meant to prevent motor vehicles breaking through into the compound. rain for security precautions were introduced throughout the. konami general valentyn very nick of was one of the key figures in the coup attempt . on august eighteenth one thousand nine hundred one it was it'd go bitch off at his residence in the crimea which. asked the soviet president to recognize the legality of the coup. because then we knew what we were going to tutoring and united told him all that it couldn't somehow be fitting to state of emergency gorbachev retorted by exclaiming that a state of emergency was bonser green machine guns and blood in its wake or even i realize that other people as well as my family would suffer no doubt blood would be

spilled certainly in such a vast country as aus this country takes time to get worked up when it does you can hardly stop at what my belief is the country's modernization without blood. august nineteenth one thousand nine hundred one must go hey levon am i cried halt armored personnel carriers heading for the city center demonstrators climb one of them chanting no to fascism. hundreds of people gather womanish square in central moscow they are ready to oppose the so-called state committee on the state of emergency people who met each other back then during two still keep in touch and remember those events. hello hello hello brothers and seen in a hundred years when my parents woke me up in the morning they told me that a coup was underway i was actively involved in the youth democratic movement so i

said if no one i know was arrested right away this is no could all yes there were tanks but people were blocking them off what kind of coup is it if tanks can be stopped short in their tracks. a small radio set is one of the most treasured mementos from those days people used it to listen to the few independent stations that was still on that. one reporter said the air force refused to side with the coup or court. in other a military garrison in st petersburg also refused to back it it was great to hear the people in many towns were supporting us. he is a minor radio station called echo of moscow was the main source of news in those days and k.g.b. shut it down in the first few hours of the coup but whether by fair means or foul

it's stuff managed to regain access to the airwaves. at one point we even used telephone lines to reach out to our audience there was no link between the studio and the transmitter so our engineers used an analog telephone line by all accounts those were thirty billion times. the students who assumes it's meanwhile the coup organizers called a press conference in moscow many took note of can now do you know its trembling hands he named himself the country's head of state claiming the cool trough would fall in the ill. the press conference reached a turning point after a question from touchy on a malkin the then twenty four year old journalist we might do you realize that what you have a down to do is a coup do you see parallels with your actions in soviet history in the one nine hundred seventy or nineteen sixty four. as for your clear him better coup took

place during the night. i would disagree with you because all legal and constitutional norms were complied with so. he would ring it off and just say that they looked tested and would be an understatement and they looked as if life was dying out of them and there was no we tell it to the left in their faces in chief the eyes they looked like people who had lost a battle before they had a chance to start it and. i was nineteen nineteen ninety one zero eight a spontaneous rally began in amman. suppose my nation ask where the crowd swelled as more and more people arrived the events in moscow are described as an see constitutional clue there are calls for an open ended general strike. on this day on we are protesting on a large a man's arm at the. notes of fascism no to fascism you're.

right no culture is the same of you i can't go to. work the movement failed to change everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to rail me help out of a child's efforts to reform the soviet union. a charter here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

on aug nineteenth nineteen ninety one top k.g.b. officials in moscow ordered reinforced security precaution that gorbachev's residents in the crimea on the same day mikhail gorbachev videotaped has since become a famous address. who has taken place. and he turns to chew tional action. is based. tremendous lie. there was little chance of the tape being taken out of the compound on the same day coast guards protecting the residence attempted to establish contact with the president. if the center was serving in one of the k.g.b.'s naval units i was not allowed to communicate with the president

therefore i asked my wife to write a note in her own handwriting the note said that the sailors were ready to take the president to a place of his choice one of my subordinates took the note to the security guards asking them to hand it over to gorbachev. when he came back they told him that nobody will be allowed to approach the residence and intruders will be shot. gorbachev's residence was secured from the sea even better than from the land. and was one of the security guards there during those days nobody could approach the shore within less than four nautical miles without being spotted by the guards if they saw the intruder as a possible threat they were under orders to open fire but they are the three groups on permanent duty scour the woodlands. snipers were in position on the mountain. there was a soldier with a machine gun on top of the cliff near the date remains of it can still be seen as

there. will pay for all of us have a celebration. health resort for communist functionaries and their families was near the residence of the soviet president oldest is high season that the resort was crammed with holiday makers to capacity couple fears off of the forest result was in charge of discos and other entertainment programs. go on aug nineteenth i said lose to the head physician look the country's president mikhail gorbachev is under arrest near here shall we counsel the dances you know she said the guests should not suffer let them dance this iteration with gorbachev doesn't concern us. moscow august nineteenth one thousand nine hundred ninety one

there it seems wednesday water cannons attempt to break through to the downtown area demonstrators damage some of them and force them to turn back. meanwhile the cool denies this ordered the arrest of the president of russia boris yeltsin at the time he was at his residence near moscow and chief of his security guards alexander korsakoff was with him they drove a service counter moscow and reached the city unhindered. bilson was seated between two guards are you flatly turned down the idea of wearing a bulletproof vest so we simply put it over him just in case. that heavy vest weighing nine kilos was of the kind worn in the army. the driver was told to go as fast as he could without stopping no matter what. yeltsin managed to get to

the white house where he reunited with his team later he climbed a tank to read out a message to a large crowd at the gathered outside the white house we were claiming all the decisions and orders by that committee illegal. by then white house defenders have set up a makeshift barricade near the building in a bid to block the access of military vehicles. everybody was dragging whatever they could lay their hands on a trolley bus stop there the driver got out and lowered the trolleys the trolley bus was left standing across the road and gary kate was here that's how we began blocking all approaches to the building. the crimea the city of sevastopol a soviet black sea fleet based fifty kilometers from of summer residence throughout the crew first rank captain sim young of waited for an order to rescue called much of it with the defense ministry part of the coup the rescue plan was ignored here

with the but they didn't i first the pockets of resistance were to be suppressed will second the president was to be found and taken under our protection third the remaining pockets of resistance were to be eliminated and we were to help evacuate the. president i see the boredom. the upshot of it was that naval commanders only sent a telegram to cool the trough urging him to hold on that telegram was received by lubov zero there an employee of the forest post office hundreds of telegrams addressed to go bunch of were arriving from all over the soviet union k.g.b. men immediately seized all such mail. those three days oldest eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth with the most disturbing case in my life we had no idea whether we would be allowed to go home and be arrested thinks or simply left around the course. was bracing for the

worst case scenario people inside the white house expected an assault on the building with that possibility in mind they inspected all of the basement secret passages beating out into nearby courtyards. some of the regular reports coming in here claim that an assault on the building of the supremes salvi it would begin in an hour's time but why would they need an assault the building is like an aquarium all you need to do is just answer it and that's all there is still it got ready actually go. this old order was in fact given to the k.g.b. so called alpha unit the men were already on high alert but for the first time in the unit's history they demanded an open debate and a vote on the order before launching operation. it's over. the commander asked everybody to voice their opinion on the operation and whether an assault was necessary at all. yes yes. most of the men with

a service record of more than five years said no to the operation. the operation was told of but casualties were still unavoidable in the early hours of august the twenty first nine hundred ninety one the crews of several armored vehicles ordered to move to another location city white house defenders attempted to stop them because they thought the vehicles were heading towards the parliament building to attack it three young men died as a result. you both comber spent the night waiting for his son shortly before the oldest events he had served as a soldier in afghanistan he went to the white house after hearing an appeal from vice president alexander old schoolboy and called on people to go and defend democracy or bowels or if a guy when my son had to risk always appeal he went to the barricades because that was a call from someone who served in afghanistan to work with

a good buddy before. i asked him if he was going to the barricades and he said no but he has his view of fighting in afghanistan. he had newbie's in a small making around barricades but in tuesday it was a different story. on the wednesday that he was no more. after that tragedy it became obvious the coup had failed tanks began leaving moscow and opus the twenty first a card carrying russia's vice president would spoil over took one of the convoys he was rushing to the airport to bring mikhail gorbachev back to moscow it was a total mess of a mound and in the air. with the pulled up and none of the ground controllers guided our flight not even jeering the landing regardless it was a trouble free flight when we touchdown the airdrome superintendent drove up to the plane i introduced myself and said i needed a car and the boss to take us to gorbachev problem. he said go right ahead.

squeeze plane with gorbachev on board touchdown in moscow on august twenty second one thousand nine hundred one a coup had failed the soviet president and in effect returned to a different country much changed during those three days in august i defended the soviet union to the law as a bullet that's what i did but failed. the finale of the standoff central moscow ammonium. to felix rohatyn skee the founder of soviet secret police standing in front of k.g.b. headquarters in libya to square is pulled down it was a symbol of the beginning of a new people. with the bright future which the communists had been talking about for seventy years finally became a possibility we could build with our own hands we were used to the fact that the state was on the evidence that it could break and destroy anyone but this time nothing happened people had risen like

a wall we said no enough white. at approximately the same time the prosecutor general's office launches an investigation into the role of the coup organizers the plotters try to pass the blame on to crimean frontier guards. initially the team of investigators of the prosecutor general's office displayed tolerance of that then they began dropping hints regarding us to repent and take the whole blame for gorbachev's isolation otherwise we would face charges of high treason. as military men we became very better when we heard the word treason and. orders however the frontier guards were later acquitted only those who gave the orders were arrested the driving forces of the coup led by general to unite have a year later they were released from prison under an amnesty you know i have died in two thousand and ten this is an excerpt from one of his last interviews.

only misguided decisions were made during those three days in august one thousand nine hundred one we will buy tanks should not have been brought in and demonstrated or should not have been used humans where we could have been done and a different way. when people today are asked whether they want a revival of the soviet union only nine percent say yes there is no chance of the state being revived in the form of the soviet union. mikhail gorbachev has never returned to summer residence since august one thousand nine hundred one now it's the property of the ukrainian state however top officials rarely vacation and. the former k.g.b. colonel tolstoy makes no secret of the fact that even now he has no right to talk about some aspects of what happened then. crimean residence still harbors many

secrets relating to those three days in one thousand nine hundred one only when new information has been declassified livy able to shed light on. a figure to be frank this place is not considered to be a very lucky at all that's what that's really where you got that. this is the officer on duty august twenty second one nine hundred ninety one five am boris yeltsin declares there reactionary coup has failed and thanks to defenders of the white house twelve pm for the first time the three colored flag is raised over the supreme council of russia. held said held for. only five months or left before the collapse of the soviet you.

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