a. k.g.b. colonel tolstoy was directly involved in the events of those days he is a direct descendant a name sake of the 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 but i have no idea what would have happened if gorbachev and others had tried to escape from the residence where they offer what i do think you would have faced very unpleasant consequences. this is exclusive footage of the residence of the first savior president the splendid park was laid out almost on bare rocks as have special significance because gorbachev was known to be very fond of strolling by the seaside. what release arizona seeders these pines and these shrubs were all planted just before the territory was to be commissioned in one nine hundred eighty eight. that was a short while before mikhail gorbachev's first visit here. the cri

a report on r t. on august the nineteenth one nine hundred ninety one top k.g.b. officials in moscow order to reinforce security precautions residents in the crimea on the same day mikhail gorbachev videotaped which has since become a famous address. the two has taken place the arrow this anti-constitutional action. is based on a tremendous lie. that 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 as an arm and a defense i 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 a 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 residents and intruders will be shot. gilbert's office residence was secured from the sea even better

hundred eighty eight with that nickel that was a short while before mikhail gorbachev's first visit here. the crimean residence was code named terra trees in k.g.b. documentation the interior design of the main building reflected the wishes of rice a global show over the president's wife she was with mikhail gorbachev throughout the force or deal. with us or you we built what i would describe as internal defenses there the men carrying guns with live ammunition were posted all over the place they were under strict orders not to allow provocations. soviet 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. and that telephone was meant for communicating with government officials or go to work for the lying was shut down at four pm on aug eighteenth. gorbachev remained in his residence moreover measures to isolate him were reinforced still further valarie shah was the one who got at the gate to the residence during two k.g.b. officers from moscow kept a close eye on him along wi

protecting the residence attempted to establish contact with the president as a nominee since i 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 a 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 nil tacl 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 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 base remains of it can still be seen as they're. going to pay fo

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. an

your book started as far as i understand you found you found the archives of the end of a dead now and the k.g.b. now they are first and then there are the f.s.b. and their archives away you actually like the story of your grandfather boris because who was who was a party a party apparatchik and he was very well to do and then he disappeared and he was he was actually prosecuted by but by the k.g.b. so how come you found them you just you don't just walk into the into the k.g.b. building leg well actually the for the historical purposes i was very fortunate in so far as that he was that all how all this happened in ukraine. in russia even today the f.s.b. archives are closed there was a brief period of slight liberalization in the early one nine hundred ninety s. but basically i could not have written a book had my grandfather be shot in russian the largely because the f.s.b. still likes to keith its secrets in the closet and to the people in power in the kremlin prefer to close the whole story why i was part of the k.g.b. only cards they that were kept by the by the ye ukrainian bureau you know

your book started as far as and they said you found you found the archives of the end of a dead now and the k.g.b. not your first book and then there are the f.s.b. and there are cards away you actually let the story of your grandfather boris be a good cover for what was a party a party apparatchik and he was very well to do and then he disappeared. and he was he was actually prosecuted by but by the k.g.b. so how come you found them you just you don't just walk into the into the k.g.b. golding looking for archives well actually the for the historical purposes i was very fortunate in in surprise that he was but also how did all this happened in ukraine. in russia even today the f.s.b. archives are closed there was a brief period of slight liberalization in women in the early one nine hundred ninety s. but basically i could not have written a book had my grandfather be shot in russia in the last name because of the be still likes to keep its secrets in the closet and to the people in power in the kremlin preferred to close the hole in the stalls and live as part of the k.g.b. our hands they that w

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 to prevent helicopters from touching down when 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 army general valentyn brain ical of was one of the key figures in the coup attempt on august the eighteenth one thousand nine hundred one even it'd go bitch off at his residence in the crimea which for a nickel asked the soviet president to recognize the legality of the coup. we knew what we were going to do or he and i told him all that somehow befitting through state of emergency and gorbachev retorted wife's claiming that a state of emergency was bonsa bring machine guns and blood in its wake at a quarter 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 out as this country takes time to get worked up when it

a copy let some technical issue. something positive but the most interesting detail is that. eve the ukrainian be the successor of the k.g.balso wanted to protect its own because there was a part of the file that was closed to me taped together and i was sitting with a young officer for the two days in defense of this file and. as you know old russian script is really hard to read so it is like helping me to read it and this part of the file was taped. taped together and he eventually succumbed also to curiosity and taped it and we looked through it together and it was the part of the file that was. part of the rehabilitation investigation of nine hundred fifty six when all of that when he was rehabilitated when he was proved to be innocent and all of those all of the investigators that had been involved in the case had been selves by nine hundred thirty nine been shot and so the pudge consumed and nobody life was in there but it did because there were they didn't want people to know about it why did they give you the tape just kept because it's all it's all it's a little town together. says that he is a journalist a true

k.g.b. officers from moscow kept a close eye on him along with other local agents. special measures were taken when a truck was stationed on the hello pad to prevent helicopters from touching down a tractor with a trailer outside the gates was meant to prevent a motor vehicles breaking through into the compound. reinforce security precautions were introduced throughout. to be yet army general revelant team that a nick of was one of the key figures in the coup attempt. on august eighteenth one thousand nine hundred one he visited gorbachev at his residence in the crimea which . asked to serve it president to recognize the legality of the two. declare them to be we knew what we were going to do to you nice told him all that good a somehow befitting to state of emergency gorbachev retorted by exclaiming that a state of emergency was drawn to bring machine guns and blood in its wake at the core you can i realize that other people as well as my family would suffer no doubt blood would be spilled suddenly in such a vast country as ouse this country takes time to get worke

nasty story and we were in the open to throw this guy out of university and it was it was a typical sort of nasty k.g.b story so they basically they set him up i mean very obviously it was good and even conceal that it was it was a monument should have been very brave after that because she continued keeping in touch with him and entered in trade to meet him and trying to get to go to england they are there i mean this was pretty brave indeed and that's what makes the whole story so extraordinary because to us it seems almost incredible it's ninety sixty three at the height of the cold war it's to justice after a cuban missile crisis and these two young people who've been separated very forceful forcibly by the soviet state decide they're not going to take that for an answer they're not going to take no for an answer we're going to fight to be together and in the. party's naive but it's also it insanely brave and it would be crazy if it weren't for the fact that they eventually succeeded six years later because in fact the. one of the oddest things about the whole story and something that surprised man

bothered him as well is adam vs the man's own luke redoubts the lou thanks for having a good point and the former k.g.b. officer the appointed prime minister of russia came out with another quote that i disagree with and that a recent seliger two thousand and eleven youth for improvement was asked whether or not eleven was an inside job or not now most of whom responded it's complete nonsense and that it would be impossible to conceal i mean impossible to conceal really i mean i don't like the term inside job but many people say because of all the concealed evidence the black boxes the surveillance cameras the government documents that have been either sealed or destroyed i mean just look at the government will so blore is releasing concealed information that contradicts the official story there's government insiders like former f.b.i. will suborn sibel edmonds who testified how the u.s. intelligence agencies have been working with us on bin ladin all the way up till september eleventh two thousand and one there's michael springman a u.s. government official working in the embassy of saudi arabia that

committee on the state of emergency declared itself a charge it was made up of high ranking communist party officials including the head of the k.g.b. gorbachev's vice president and the defense minister they were terrified of gorbachev's democratic reforms and the union treaty due to be signed on the twentieth of august would give so much power away from the center to the soviet republics it would destroy the soviet union. but it was an act of treason on the part of goober to finance in illicit outright carries and really no country left. in a press conference later that day he said that was ill and that they would take over in his absence but their show wasn't convincing on the nineteenth of august vice president kennedy a naive on the other members of the emergency committee sat in this very spot as he delivered his statement the assembled journalists noticed that his hands were shaking then one twenty four year old journalist blew his official words right out of the water. out of the counting do you realize that you've conducted according to the world they work pretty are very convincing. just read meanwhile on the streets the r

on the verge of breaking out because a coup plotters had isolated soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and seized control of media outlets one reporter defied the k.g.b. officers in his news room. we switched on our t.v. camera with various much hope of being able to corner tonight you can see barricades being erected. surveys report was shown and spread word of the democratic resistance developing around the reformist russian president boris yeltsin as the standoff continues through the nineteenth and twentieth of august fears grew of an assault on the white house that you know with the tanks and soldiers in the streets all of it made you feel uneasy thinking what's going to happen in an hour what's going to happen at night. those armored vehicles tried to ram their way through barricades and move into a row tunnel near the white house some of the protesters tried to stop the lubov come our force her son dimitriy was safe with a friend in fact he was manning the barricades. judging by documents that i've been able to see another dmitri had climbed on my vehicle to cover its vision slits after doing that he jumped into the because re a hatch where he