Social networks are full of 25-year-old memories: what would later be called a “coup” caught people suddenly, and few people understood what it was all about. Looking back, we have to state with bitterness - on the one hand, there was an unsuccessful attempt to save the Soviet Union. On the other hand, a monstrous force arose, which subsequently killed our common homeland.
25 years later, many media outlets continue to call those events a coup, allegedly by members of the State Emergency Committee, although the real putschists were just those to whom the power fell into the hands after that.
The struggle for the Soviet Union, which is surviving its last months, is akin to a battle on the battlefield near the walls of Troy for the body of Patroclus. With only one difference - Patroclus was already hopelessly dead, and the USSR could still be saved. But the defenders were too weak, there was no support behind them. On the other hand, those who wanted to finish off the mighty state and spit on it, already dead, branded it with shame, and spoil everything that was dear, on which more than one generation was brought up …
I also have a memory, albeit a fragile one. Then I was 13 years old, and my mother and I were in Moscow, in the most famous "Children's World" - we had to buy stationery by September 1. From there, from the window, the demoniac crowd was too clearly visible, which attacked the monument to Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. The triumphant winners were clearly trying to knock the giant off the pedestal. I remember that many of those who looked at this from the windows of the Children's World said: “What fools! What has Dzerzhinsky got to do with it?"
The next morning we learned from the news that the monument no longer exists. But then we still did not understand: it was not only the monument that was dismantled. Dismantled our country. Dismantled over 70 years of history. Dismantled all our valuables. Amid the screams of the liberal crowd … And on September 1 at school we were told that we could no longer wear pioneer ties. Then the news was greeted with a bang - we did not realize what we had lost.
The main events did not take place at Dzerzhinsky Square. And not even at the House of Soviets, where the liberal crowd built toy barricades against those who were not going to attack anyone, and where Yeltsin set up an impromptu theater for himself right on the tank. The main events took place abroad, in high offices, where the Gorbachevs, Yeltsins, Boerbulis and others had masters.
Today I do not want to throw a stone at those who made that last desperate attempt to save the barely breathing Soviet Patroclus, into which Gorbachev was already preparing to thrust a deadly dagger in the form of a Union Treaty. It was the plans to sign this treaty (according to which the Soviet Union would have turned into a weak confederation and, most likely, would have been destroyed soon anyway) that pushed the members of the State Emergency Committee to a fatal step. But they were unable to withstand a clique of foreign-ruled "democrats". For all this, the GKChPists paid - most in prison, and Boris Karlovich Pugo and Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeev - with their lives.
These two and I would like to remember and honor their memory. Be that as it may, they died fighting a terrible enemy. And their dubious "suicide" has long required a thorough investigation.
I would also like to recall another highly worthy person - Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, who, despite his advanced age, refused the amnesty granted by the State Emergency Committee-istam and agreed to go through the trial to the end. And he got an acquittal.
This verdict justified not only Valentin Ivanovich. In fact, this is history's acquittal against all GKChP-ists.
Yes, they didn't have the determination to shoot. Shoot the liberal crowd. On this "burned" then and other political figures, called "dictators", but who differed from the "democratic" savages just the same inability to shoot unarmed.
The very first "sacred victims" - who died out of their own stupidity, Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov - tied the hands of the defenders of the USSR, but untied them for the "democrats". Ironically, all three were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - and this is to those who just contributed to the assassination of the great state, willingly or unwillingly. However, these guys were among the last to receive this high title - it was soon abolished. And many real Heroes of the Soviet Union found themselves in a "democracy" in such a position that they were forced to sell their gold stars in the markets.
Yes, soon after the failure of the State Emergency Committee, many, many, including naive “scientists, associate professors with candidates,” who actively supported “democracy” and cursed the “damned scoop”, went to the market.
And the final act of the terrible tragedy took place near the same building - the snow-white House of Soviets - just over two years later, in the bloody autumn of 1993. When the same Yeltsin, the fake hero of the tank barricade, shot the defenders of the Supreme Soviet and threw those who were with him in August-91 in prison. Then "democracy" triumphed completely, the fruits of which we are still unraveling (and together with us - the inhabitants of other countries that have become victims of Washington). Because it is easy to destroy the state, it is much more difficult to restore or build something new.
Soon, Russia will celebrate the Day of the State Flag - the tricolor, which was raised in those August days by the arrogant winners. And even if this flag has its own history and its own merits, it is still a pity for the scarlet banners, which were then rudely trampled by the liberals …
