gennady yanaev was not only not the universally elected president of the soviet union, he was not athe president of the soviet union. he was a person about whom the majority of the population of the soviet union learned on august 19, 1991. i well remember the election of gennady yanaev as the vice president of the soviet union, i was then at the congress of people's deputies of the soviet union, and i then questioned mikhail gorbachev, ugh , why did he propose this candidacy at all, none of us from the people who covered this congress of deputies, who worked with politicians, and could not understand it, it was nobody, this person was known exclusively for his inclination to of alcoholism, but everyone says that there boris yeltsin was prone to alcoholism, but boris yeltsin really was a person who could... well, quite a lot of alcohol, but at the same time, boris yeltsin's interest in life was not vodka, power, and gennady yanaev's interest in life was vodka, not power, it was, this, these are different things, agree, when vodka is a hobby for you, well, for many people not only in r

i well remember the election of gennady. yanaevthe vice-president of the soviet union, i was then at the congress of people's deputies of the soviet union, and i then asked mikhail gorbachev why he proposed this candidacy in the first place, none of us from the people who covered this congress of deputies , who worked with politicians, could not understand this, it was no one, this person was known exclusively for his tendency to alcoholism, but everyone says that there boris yelson was prone to alcoholism, but boris yelson was really a person who could do a lot... people in not only russia, vodka can be a hobby for you, well, for many, it is a hobby, but when vodka is a meaning, for the sake of which you achieve some kind of success, you are unlikely you can effectively manage something, and everyone perfectly understood that this is nobody and nothing. and so this person might have feared that if he ordered the arrest of the president-elect of russia, it might lead to greater excesses than it would seem, and might cause quite a n