On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
> Shane Mage wrote:
>
>> On Feb 1, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
>>> ...The coup attempt against Gorbachev failed...
>>
>> No it didn't. It succeeded in its goals, getting rid
>> of Gorbachev and his loose talk about democratic
>> socialism and return to Lenin's original ideas, and
>> putting the KGB/Black Economy bagmen (with all
>> the dollars of foreign exchange stolen and
>> secreted abroad under Brezhnev and his
>> successors) in complete control of the resources
>> of the Russian empire.
>
> I must admit that yours sounds like a very plausible story to me.
> But, not being an expert on late Soviet history, I should tag Chris.
>
> Chris,
>
> Can you please confirm for us that, in August 1991, Kryuchov, Yazov,
> Plavov, Pugo, et alia were in fact in cahoots with Yeltsin,
> Nazarbayev, et alia to pull this one on the Russians?
The picture is that they (Kryuchov, Yazov,Plavov, Pugo, et alia) would never have acted without Pugo's assurance of KGB backing--which was yanked out from under them in less than one day and promptly given to the Yeltsins and Nazarbayevs. Only Pugo knew how he had been betrayed and exactly by who. That's why he (and his wife!) were suicided by the KGB in the first moments of the Yeltsin dictatorship.
Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
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