black sea fleet based fifty kilometers from summer residence throughout the coup first drank captain simeonoff waited for an order to rescue called the church of the with the defense ministry part of the coup the rescue plan was ignored you know with the what they'd like first the pockets of resistance were to be suppressed that 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 go bitch off urging him to hold on that telegram was received by lubov. an employee of the for us 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. the minute those three days oldest eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth were the most disturbing days in my life we had no idea whether we would be allowed to go home and be arrested things were simply left around the corps. was bracing for the worst case scenario p