As Gorbachev's reforms deepened, some powerful conservative figures in the ruling party of the Soviet Union became increasingly dissatisfied with Gorbachev's reform methods, believing that the new alliance treaty he was negotiating was too decentralizing to the republics, which would lead to the total collapse of the Soviet Union, in order to prevent such a danger from happening.

On August 19, 1991, Soviet Vice President Yanayev issued an order announcing that Gorbachev was no longer able to perform the presidency due to health reasons, and that he would assume the presidency with immediate effect. At the same time, the establishment of the State Emergency Committee was announced, exercising all the powers of the state, and imposing a state of emergency in parts of the Soviet Union for a period of six months, and the State Emergency Committee was composed of eight people, including Yanayev, Prime Minister Pavlov, 1st Deputy Chairman of the National Defense Council Bakranov, Defense Minister Yazov, Minister of Internal Affairs Pugo, and Chairman of the National Security Council Kryuchkov. The committee issued a "Letter to the Soviet People", saying that the reform policy advocated by Gorbachev had reached a dead end and that the country was at an extremely dangerous and serious moment. The committee issued two successive orders calling on all levels of government and administration to impose a state of emergency unconditionally, and to temporarily allow only nine newspapers, including Pravda, to publish the state.

As for the future, Ye Laosi looked at the constantly flashing images on the TV and concluded that this coup d'état would definitely fail, and in his opinion, this emergency committee was just here to save his privileges, and he could not be defeated. The ruling party of the Soviet Union is really ossified, the system is rigid, the ideology is also rigid, and there is no decent talent left.

Looking at the members of the Emergency Committee on TV, they look like they are doing a coup d'état, it's child's play, but judging from the composition alone, it's quite scary. The government, the military, the internal affairs forces, the intelligence services, and the traffic control services all participated, as well as the chief of staff of the president, who was closest to Gorbachev, who supported the Emergency Committee.

From this point of view, Gorbachev is really a failure whether he is a man or an official, and his main deputies, including his closest confidants, are all alienated from him. To put it mildly, I really can't understand the years he has been in power. What the hell have you done, this control ability is too poor!

Vice President, Prime Minister of Government, Minister of Defense, Minister of the Interior. The chairman of the KGB, the head of the president's office, etc., were all Gorbachev's right-hand men, and at the critical moment, they all betrayed him. This supreme leader deserves it, and he really has no level. Such a thing, in Ye Laosi's opinion, is simply incredible. And being the boss like this? It is the turn of the level of political struggle, or the turn of wisdom in office. I'm afraid that if a township party committee secretary who has never gone to school comes out at random, it won't be so miserable. Ye Laosi thought so. It seems that Lao Maozi is really vulgar and unwritten. Where can I get the breadth and profundity of my way of mastering the state and the culture of struggle? Hum!

Is it finally time to come? Immediately after a hurried knock on the door, many people rushed into Ye Laosi's house and surrounded him. "Boss! There was a coup d'état in Moscow. They excitedly pointed to the TV and pointed.

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At the same time. Due to the time difference, it was afternoon on Fang Monan's side.

Old Man Lin looked at Fang Monan sitting on the sofa in surprise, watching TV from time to time, "Nannan is strange." You don't usually watch much TV. ”

As soon as Mr. Lin's voice fell, he saw the news urgently inserted on the TV screen. He pointed to the TV, "This Soviet coup d'état. ”

"Uh-huh! As you can see, there was a coup d'état in the USSR. Fang Monan said lightly, history has not changed after all, it has come as scheduled, and I hope that Fourth Brother Ye will be safe and sound in the Soviet Union.

Fang Monan calmly watched TV, according to her cognition, this was called "the most bizarre coup d'état" by the historians, and the final result ended in failure, and the reason why it is called "the most bizarre coup" is that the initiator of the coup d'état controls almost all the powerful departments of the Soviet state, and the army, police, and spies were completely controlled by the coup initiator from the beginning. On the first day of the coup, almost all of the more than a dozen military districts and more than a dozen union republics of the Soviet Union sided with the coup d'état, and most of the Soviet population seemed indifferent to the coup.

In this case, almost everyone, and even the entire world community, generally believed that this coup d'état in the USSR would be successful. At this time, a dramatic scene appeared, the smooth start of the coup d'état lasted only one day, with the radical representative Ye Shi ascending to the heights, and the release of the "Letter to the Russian People", the wind direction of the entire Soviet Union changed as if it was a trick, a large number of military dignitaries who originally supported the coup d'état changed their positions, and the leaders of the various union republics also began to come forward to condemn the initiators, especially those guards who marched into Moscow to carry out martial law missions, and even more openly voted for the radicals.

Here we have to talk about the Internet, on August 19, a group of hard-line conservatives "put under house arrest" the general secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev in an attempt to seize control of the Soviet Union. However, while the putschists controlled the television station, radio, newspapers and other media outlets, they left out some communication channels, allowing Yeltsin to announce the "Letter to the Soviet People" to the world, causing the coup to be aborted. In this process, the Internet, which is still in its infancy, has played a role in ventilating information.

The openness of information brought about by the Internet has brought a powerful impetus to the political process, and this judgment has almost become a global consensus in the later generations after the development of the Internet. In fact, the Internet has "appeared" on the political stage as early as 20 years ago. This stage was the "August 19" coup d'état in the Soviet Union, which shocked the whole world.

According to later disclosures, Yeltsin and his cronies had already begun to fax the document from the dacha. After entering the "White House", they used all kinds of means to spread it to the outside world. People were soon pleasantly surprised to find out that the "Emergency Committee" had not blocked all the channels for the dissemination of information, computer centers, including the Internet.

Over the next few hours, many Western scientists learned about the document through this network, which in turn was sent to the editorial offices of many traditional media outlets. As a result, in the subsequent extensive coverage of foreign media, the name of this computer center was widely disseminated.

In any case, the Internet, which was born at the beginning, did play a role that could not be ignored in this short-lived coup d'état, becoming an indirect driver of the collapse of the Soviet Union. But just like that, can it be said that Ye's speech is so appealing? Radicals are so popular? Can the condemnation of those Western countries really influence the decision of the Soviet military? Or are the generals of those armies really so afraid of bloodshed? Not necessarily!

Since the August 19 incident, the Soviet army, which is the backing of the armed forces of the Soviet state, has been in a state of inaction and no performance.

Why didn't the Soviets pour into the streets of Moscow, as they did in Hungary and Poland, to suppress the crowds? The Soviet army bloodily suppressed the independence of Lithuania and Georgia.

The common people did not want this regime, and the intellectuals did not like it, and in the end the officials also had problems, and in the later period it became clear that there was a part of the privileged strata of society, who had a right, but was unwilling to reform, who wanted to maintain this privilege, who did not want this power to disappear. The August 19 incident was the last step taken by the Emergency Committee to save the Soviet Union, but these people's ideal was to save the Soviet Union, and in fact, in Fang Menan's view, it was these privileged elites who revolutionized the lives of the Soviet people.

The CPSU, which won the October Revolution and took power in the country with only 350,000 members, lost its ruling position and was dissolved when it had nearly 20 million members. Although there were many reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, the most fundamental was the degeneration and degeneration of the CPSU.

It's ironic to think about it, Fang Menan remembers that in his previous life, he had seen a lot of so-called expert analysis, and some people claimed conclusively that in the "August 19" coup d'état in the Soviet Union, the real winner was the radical faction led by the Ye family, because they finally defeated the Bolshevik Party and won the power of Russia. Others say that the United States is the biggest winner in this coup, because they finally defeated their old rivals who have been in a standoff for decades. At the beginning, Fang Monan still greatly agreed with these analyses, and even deeply admired them, but now, according to the information disclosed by later generations, she just wants to say that these analyses are all bullshit, Ye is just a group of conspirators who are pitiful worms who come out to pick up the shit basin, and the Americans are just powerful foreign aid for these conspirators to carry out their conspiracies, as for the real winners of this coup, it should definitely be regarded as the privileged elite old foxes who are behind the scenes, but have been hidden behind the scenes and manipulated everything from beginning to end.

It was the countless privileged strata that united and revolutionized the life of the old white surname. Eventually, the Bolshevik regime, which was already in danger, was overthrown, and it was they who united to divide up the Bolshevik Party's property and turn it into their legal property. It was still their alliance that sent the elite of the Bolshevik Party, such as the Gang of Eight who staged the coup d'état of Kryuchkov, Yanayev and Yazov, to prison.

The overthrown Soviet Union, where the former members of the ruling class of the CPSU became the rich, and the original enterprises of the whole people became their private enterprises, which meant that they gained legal property rights, while ordinary people lost their property rights and became poorer. It can be seen that the former ruling class of the CPSU is still in power, they have obtained property rights, their wealth is more stable, but ordinary people have lost their property rights and become poorer, which shows that the Soviet Union has not been overthrown at all, but has changed its name. The so-called overthrow of the Soviet Union was nothing more than a self-coup d'état by the CPSU elite to legalize previously illegal wealth.

In order to legalize corrupt wealth and rob the people's property rights, the elite of the CPSU colluded with the United States, betrayed national interests, and staged a farce of "being overthrown" to the common people. The so-called overthrow of the Soviet Union was nothing more than the collusion of the CPSU elite with the United States to overthrow the common people through a self-coup d'état. (To be continued.) )