USSR 1991

"Of course." Yanayev said straight to the point, "Our Politburo is going to abolish the so-called [-]-day plan of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and reuse your "Government Program". I hope we still have time to do this. things, to make up for the stupid things that Gorbachev did."

Prior to this, Gorbachev and Yeltsin reached an agreement to set up an expert group headed by Academician Shatarin, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee, to formulate a 500-day plan for the transition of the Soviet Union to a market economy on the basis of Russia's 500-day plan. That is, "Transition to the Market-Concept and Program". In early September 1990, the group submitted this plan, stipulating that the Soviet Union would “achieve drastic reforms” within 9 months along the direction of privatization and market-oriented reforms. At least 17% of industrial enterprises would be privatized and transformed into joint Joint-stock companies, while encouraging the entry of large-scale foreign capital, established a new financial system based on private commercial banks and the so-called "market guarantee".Its full name is "Shatalin-Yavlinsky 70-day plan".

When those idiots advocating private ownership were cheering for this plan, only Ryzhkov was soberly aware of what a terrible disaster would happen, but he was powerless to stop it, because public opinion and the government were all on Yeltsin's side , no one wants to speak for him.So Ryzhkov could only choose to resign to silence the protest.

Pavlov took Yanayev's words and said to Ryzhkov, "So you will take up the post of Minister of Economy of the Soviet Union to implement your plan of cautious reform. What is Comrade Ryzhkov's opinion on this? Do you want to mention it?"

"You should hire someone else." Hearing what the Prime Minister said, Ryzhkov decided to retreat and strive for more initiative. "Reform is a very risky approach, and many measures will bring unpredictable consequences. , so what I need is an absolute right to guarantee that any measures I take will not be influenced by high-level or other people. And the most important point is that I am a person with no power or position, how can I go to the central government to be in charge of the economy? Where is the minister?"

Yanayev and Pavlov smiled at each other, and said in unison, "This is the unanimous decision of the members of the Politburo, and you will be the Minister of Economy."

"If you say this, will it give people a sense of authority?" Ryzhkov muttered in a low voice.

Seeing that he was still not at ease, Yanayev could only promise with a wry smile, "The minister of economy is only temporary, and we will transfer you in the future. I just want to share the news with you today. Discuss another day's meeting. And I guarantee that your reform measures will be put in place. This is not the time for Gorbachev to speak. In September 1990, you watched the motherland fall into the country because of a bunch of idiots and people with ulterior motives. There is nothing you can do about the abyss, but if you are given another chance now, will you choose to save her without hesitation?"

"Of course I will."

At Yanayev's words, Ryzhkov looked up at him, eyes brighter and more determined than they had been at the desperate meeting in September 1990.

Chapter 12 A Declaration of War on the West

The August [-]th incident can be said to have given the heads of government of Western countries a shot of stimulant. Those heads of government who were planning to go on vacation, the presidents of the country canceled their vacations one after another, and paid close attention to every move of the Soviet Union. Shuttle between the president's office and the intelligence building, handing over first-hand news from Moscow.

At this time, everyone was very excited. They hoped to see the red empire that had oppressed them for more than 60 years quietly collapse in a coup, making this coup the last straw for the collapse of the Soviet Union.These capitalists who regard communism as a scourge are viciously cursing all the top leaders of the CPSU to be hanged.

Just when they thought Moscow was in a turbulent state, everything was quietly settled.Yanayev held the power of the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, and Yeltsin and his supporters lost in Moscow.The swaying grass has already moved closer to the emergency committee, but it just greeted the unanimous stares of the high-level officials.They may not know that there will be a bigger political purge waiting for these people in the future, and they can only live or die by then.

The big clock of the Moscow Clock Tower struck eleven heavily, and at this time the United States was still in the dark afternoon of the setting sun.In the Kennybonport Villa in Maine, an old man was sitting by the phone, anxiously waiting for the ring to ring, while his wife stood beside him, patted the old man on the shoulder, and comforted him to relax .

The old man couldn't relax. He was the current President of the United States, George Bush, and beside him was the first lady, Barbara.At this time, Bush was resting in the presidential holiday villa, but he was anxious all day by the news of the emergency coup d'état in the Soviet Union.

Standing beside Bush is an old man with a bald head. He is the National Security Advisor of the United States, Brent Scowcroft.It was through him that the news of the Soviet coup was passed on to Bush, who was still on vacation.At this time, he was also in charge of becoming the mouthpiece between the intelligence agencies and the president, reporting the latest news to Bush.

"Brent, is there any latest data from the National Intelligence Council?" Bush asked, frowning. "According to the latest information, it seems that the situation is developing in a direction we did not expect. Damn it! "

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency. The National Intelligence Council is currently analyzing all the reliable intelligence. Presumably they will give you the best conclusion tonight." Brent said respectfully.

"It seems that the intelligence department is having another sleepless night tonight." Bush laughed dryly, and blurted out his inner thoughts, "I hope that the development of the situation in the Soviet Union will follow our direction, after all, we have spent With such great efforts to instigate Mikhail and make him a running dog of the Western free world, I don’t want to waste the hard work of the previous president and me. Let the enemy that my country has been guarding for decades fall in my hands The joy is immeasurable."

Bush called Gorbachev a lackey on this private occasion, which shows that he didn't really care about this old friend. At most, he regarded him as a key pawn in the decline of the Soviet Union.In fact, the West never thought of dealing with a group of Siberian savages.In particular, they are always able to overwhelm the oppression of the West.

"Honey, everything will be fine." Barbara sat down and hugged Bush's head, and said softly.Bush just smiled lightly and did not speak. He was waiting for the final conclusion from the intelligence agency, or Mikhail himself called to his villa.

Brent exited the room and was about to wait for the intelligence committee to call in front of the phone. Just as he arrived in the corridor, a panting intelligence officer suddenly appeared at the corner. He was holding a blank piece of paper in his hand while running.

"Quickly, give your Excellency the results sent by the Intelligence Committee."

Before he could finish speaking, Brent grabbed the piece of paper and opened the door of the president's bedroom without knocking, and shouted excitedly in disregard of etiquette, "Your Excellency, the report from the Intelligence Committee Here's the latest conclusion."

But when he opened the door, he saw Bush picked up the phone beside the bed, staring at him with a frown, making a gesture to silence him.Then Bush uttered the historic greeting as if chatting with an old friend, "Thank God, Mikhail, is that you my friend? Are you all right?"

However, the answer on the other side of the phone made George Bush feel cold in an instant. It was not Gorbachev who picked up the phone, but Yanayev, the top leader of the emergency committee from the Kremlin office.

"I'm sorry, my friend George. President Gorbachev can no longer perform the duties of the president due to physical reasons. From now on I will take over all his duties. Oh, yes, I almost forgot to introduce myself. I am the original Vice President of the Soviet Union, now the supreme leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yanayev."

"What will you do to Mikhail? He is a friend of our Americans." Bush clenched the microphone, and even used a small threat to warn Yanayev.

However, Bush forgot that Yanayev is not a character who prefers softness and fears toughness. He has never taken this kind of role, and said directly with disdain, "I thought that there were only interests between countries, but I didn't expect that he was always known for betraying his friends. of Americans would befriend the country they consider the most evil."

"Mikhail and I are good friends in private, and have nothing to do with you and the Soviet Union." Bush quibbled.

"Forget it, I don't care about your relationship with Gorbachev, but there is one thing I want to remind you Americans." Yanayev's voice suddenly became serious, and he said coldly, "So Now please put away your disgusting, hypocritical democratic and liberal ways. The Soviet Union is indeed facing great difficulties, but it does not need to be completely westernized to keep its future. You hypocritical vampires are really in the Kremlin Doesn't anyone see through your tricks? Even kids know 'it must be a stupid thing for an enemy to praise what he did'. Gorbachev is a fool, that's why you call him the best Friends, indeed, for us, there is nothing worse than dismantling a huge empire with our own hands."

Bush raised his head and met Brent's eyes. He lowered his head and asked, "Then what do you want?"

"It's nothing, I just want to tell you that the relationship between countries should sometimes be like a businessman doing business, only talking about interests, not ideology. When there are common interests, they should benefit from each other, right? But if The other party tried every means to frame themselves, and the Slavic nation not only received guests with vodka, but also used Kalashnikov rifles to treat the enemy.”

Yanayev told Bush vaguely that he did not want to continue the boring ideological confrontation, but if the United States continued to provoke aggressively, he would not mind turning the bipolar structure into an abyss of war at all.

"Okay, if there is nothing else, President Bush should go to bed early. After all, you may not have slept well all day. Good night, my new friend." Yanayev hung up the phone without waiting for Bush to finish speaking. Take a long breath.It feels so good to vent all the resentment in my heart.

On Bush's side, Brent and him both looked at each other, and Brent still didn't understand what happened.Bush directly opened his mouth and explained to him, "The coup, the emergency committee won, and our friend Gorbachev lost. Now the Soviet Union has completely slipped into the abyss beyond our control, Brent, I want to call an emergency meeting .”

Brent was dumbfounded, and stood in place as if struck by lightning. At this moment, he slowly looked at the paper in his hand, and saw the most concise summary of the intelligence agency written on it, which echoed the ending of this call.

State of emergency committee coup success chance, 50.00%40.00.Probability of failure, [-]% Five.

Bush rubbed his face with his hands, and said slowly, "It seems that we are about to face a Stalinist opponent. This will definitely be another serious disaster for the free world."

Chapter 13 Repression

Although a little later than expected, the armored forces successfully entered Leningrad and Volgograd, one as the most important transportation hub city in the west, and the other as the granary in southern Russia.Yanayev will never let any city fall and become a stronghold of democratic parasites.

Before the troops moved in, he had a long conversation with the commanders of the sixteenth military regions of the Soviet Union over the phone.Every general or general held the microphone tremblingly, following Yanayev's instructions.But there was one person who never heard these instructions.General Silchenko of the Ural Military District had shot himself in his office three hours earlier.It is said that a soldier from the GRU went in and explained some things to him at that time. After he came out, Silchenko sat on the sofa smoking a cigarette in a state of desperation. After smoking the last one, he picked up the pistol and shot without warning. committed suicide.Two hours later, Silchenko's family also lost their voice.

Everyone in the army knew that Shilichenko and Yeltsin had been flirting with each other. It took less than two hours for Yeltsin to fall, and Shilichenko followed suit.The revenge of the top leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was more ruthless than they imagined.

So when the commanders-in-chief of other military regions received the call from Yanayev, their hands trembled with fear. Most of these generals, who had experienced the bloody war of the Great Patriotic War, met for the first time under a general who was born as a civilian. The secretary showed fear and respect in front of him.Yanayev asked them to send troops into the city under martial law, and the withdrawal of troops was prohibited without his order.Everyone's recruitment is correct, and no one dares to follow the law.

The more power a person has, the more he cherishes his life. These old people who have been ruined by alcohol and years can do anything in order to keep their status.When Yanayev put down the phone, he felt the sorrow of the Soviet Union for the first time.

Those who fought for the ideals of communism lost their way long ago. Under the joy of power, they forgot the goal of their struggle and began to doubt their own ideals and beliefs.In the end, it becomes the small group of villains who want to usurp the interests of the country by changing the system and become rich in their own pockets.And those who are still fighting for their beliefs gradually become disappointed in the reality of dissatisfaction, and finally choose to stand by and watch the motherland they fought for collapse.Then he picked up the rusty and faded sickle and hammer badge in the dust, feeling sad.

Fortunately, Yanayev still has the enthusiasm for reform and enough power to support him to do this.When he signed some appointment letters with the pen in his hand, Yanayev knew that a war without gunpowder was raging all over the Soviet Union.

Although some spontaneously organized opposition groups did not break out shocking demonstrations under Yeltsin's call, many people still took to the streets, raised banners and shouted slogans to let the emergency committee step down. Gradually, the demonstrations evolved into There were riots, many shops were smashed, cars were burned, and some women were even harassed and molested in broad daylight.These dirty villains in the name of democracy and freedom have always liked to do some completely different behaviors secretly.

The people's expectation at the beginning has turned into disappointment. These people are not targeting the government, but plundering their own property, just like an upright robber breaking into his home and plundering under the banner of justice.

At the beginning, the martial law army followed the instructions of the central government and secretly observed and did not act.However, they report directly to the central high-level every half hour. When Yanayev realized that the actions of these reactionary figures had made the citizens of Volgograd and Leningrad intolerable, he finally issued the order The long-prepared clearing order.

On this day, these parasites immersed in the joy brought by false democracy finally learned the horror of the torrent of steel.Those violent machines with crawlers will become an indelible nightmare for the rest of their lives.

The army clearing the field first threw tear gas into the crowd, and when those people realized what it was, they were already choked up and couldn't keep their eyes open.Some people tried to set the soldiers on fire with homemade Motorov cocktails, but the snipers who had already ambushed on the roof broke their legs with compressed air guns.

Then the soldiers cleared the field. The rough style of the Soviet army meant that they would not use batons and shields, which are literary and artistic weapons of suppression. They did not have anti-riot guns in their hands, and they were directly loaded with painful but not fatal rubber bullets.Yanayev's order was not to show mercy to any of the thugs until you ran out of bullets.Forgiving those people is God's business, we are only responsible for sending them to see them.If they were caught on the street, they would be beaten violently in the street, and if they were caught in the toilet, they would drown their heads in the toilet.

The rubber bullets hit their bodies, and their skins were immediately torn apart, even if they weren't there, they were purple-red bruises.These young people who grew up in the greenhouse had never experienced such pain, and immediately fell to the ground crying and begging, but the soldiers did not let these people go, whether they fell to the ground or begged for mercy, they continued to enjoy the joy of rubber bullets. torment.

The demonstrators were frightened. For the first time, these opponents realized how terrible the iron fist of dictatorship is. They thought that mobilizing street politics would make the top leaders of the CPSU unable to bear to deal with the people and give in. They did not expect that the newly appointed General Secretary of the CPSU would be a As long as the army and the state apparatus remain loyal to the leader, those who try to fish in troubled waters through social change will never have a chance.

The leaders who launched the parade were frightened, like a clown who appeared on the stage and quickly faded away, they left their team and fled in desperation, leaving those young people who were deceived to taste the punishment of communism.Losing their organization and combat effectiveness, they immediately surrendered.

During the clearance operations in two major cities, a total of six people were killed due to the stampede, 20 were seriously injured, 60 were slightly injured, and hundreds of young people were arrested for street politics.Although many people cried bitterly on the news and said that they were tricked into going to the parade, Yanayev only made a short and sharp comment on these people, "a funny show composed of cowards and garbage."

Some of these people with serious circumstances will be sent to the special KGB mental hospital for warm and beautiful treatment, and they will not be free until their legs tremble when they hear democracy and freedom.Oh, how ironic.

In response to this clearing, those intellectuals who claimed to be the conscience of the Slavic nation began to accuse Yanayev of what he had done. Solzhenitsyn, a writer known as the conscience of Russia, published "The Gulag Archipelago" Yev likened him to a brutal, inhuman iron-blooded tyrant and described him as a lunatic like Stalin.Yanayev twitched his lips in disdain, mocking him as a fool who could only write hypocritical words without doing anything.