in short, in the end , on august 20, at a meeting, karpushin announced that he would not participatewise, army general grachev refused to carry out the order. all senior officers of group a announced their refusal to carry out the order. 2 hours before the time when the assault was supposed to begin, then ninety the third year the event at the white house, it was in october, one of the most important events of those days in the history of the group a was october 4 , ninety-three, when two groups alpha and vimpil participated in resolving the most acute political crisis, which led, well, as you remember, if someone ... so to storm the white house, and some here the group the day before this was given the order it was claimed that the order contained the words to fire to kill, you understand what this means, in the capital of our homeland, civil war, ours must shoot at ours. two at theirs, i also don't really understand how such an order was given, but nevertheless, the alpha fighters abandoned the idea of ​​storming on their own initiative and entered into negotiations with the leader