Chapter 1759: Reasons to do it

Semichasne was no longer the same person he had been twenty years ago, compared to the KGB chairman who was in his thirties at the time, this important figure of the Sherepine group had traveled to the city of Kalinin unnoticed, and then met Foltseva, who wasn’t exactly a close friend at the time, but couldn’t be described as an enemy either.

Semichasne was a KGB chairman with a very low presence, which was due to the fact that he was too young at the time, having become the head of the most powerful department at just over thirty-five years of age, and had to keep a low profile, but such a performance did not let Brezhnev off the hook.

Of course it was also because of his youth that Semichasne was not too old even now, and seemed to look a little more spry than Ligachev.

“Katyusha, you want a coup?” After hearing Foltseva’s purpose, Semichasne was shocked, if he didn’t remember wrongly, Foltseva should have already left the center for many years, personally retired, but still thinking of a coup? Who listens to you?

“Vladimir, back in the day you were the youngest head of department in the country.” Foltseva replied noncommittally, “In fact, your lack of presence in the first place was itself a way of avoiding Brezhnev’s attention. In fact, our responses were similar, and the reason for the different results is that I have to mention a weakness in me that can become a strength at critical moments; I am a woman.”

The USSR was very egalitarian, but it didn’t deliberately try to prove equality, so Foltseva settled down to be at the top of the USSR for more than two decades without getting into trouble, but certainly not as the number one.

It was also because of this one protective color of her gender that she had allowed her children to step up to the point where they were all about to start taking part in coups.

“But you’re retired, who can you find to help?” Semichasne shook his head, from what Foltseva had said he knew that the coup, which had gathered the heads of almost all the important departments, had already begun, and with such a powerful lineup, how could there be any room for Foltseva to play.

“Why not.” Foltseva at this time can be said to be fighting spirit, and does not appear a little old, one word, “Now I am going to carry out the third coup d’état in my life.”

Semichasne thought the Culture Tsar was crazy, but in fact Semichasne had been away from the center for too long, and thought that the Soviet Communist Party was some kind of invulnerable and fighting organization. But Foltseva, who had spoken to Alexeyev one more time, had learned that on the first day the members of the Emergency Committee had gotten drunk, and she had been disappointed in the ranks of the most powerful coup in history.

“What, they got drunk?” Semichasne looked shocked, now that the KGB had become like this, and he didn’t realize that Kryuchkov wasn’t among the drinkers.

But the incident gave Semichasne an extremely bad impression, and if the members of the Emergency Committee were like that, it was not a good thing.

Foltseva asked whether Semichasne’s friends were still in touch, and the latter nodded that naturally they were, including Egorechev, then first secretary of Moscow; Kharazov, second secretary of Lithuania; Tikunov, minister of the oil industry; Meshchatsev, head of the Tass news agency; Kochemashov, first secretary of Azerbaijan; Golunov, chairman of the USSR radio station; Tolstykov, first secretary of the city council of Leningrad; and so on.

“Look, in fact, you people were strong enough back then, but didn’t you also end up losing to Brezhnev? And then now looking at the positions of those people in Yanayev, you feel sure that you will succeed?”

Foltseva spoke with a light smile, she wasn’t trying to mock these lesser men from back then, in fact giving everyone a chance, “Unlike you, I have a proud son.”

As for the fact that there was another man who was ready to help out on the same level as his husband, Semichasne didn’t need to know, he only needed to know that the son of the Culture Tsar was in a position to be drawn in right now.

Semichasne opened his mouth, the top of the KGB, a handful of Moscow’s security services was certainly worth pulling for, and if Alexeyev didn’t follow orders, Kryuchkov couldn’t really do anything about it.

In a trance, the youngest KGB chairman at the time, recalled the two coups of Foltseva’s life, the first coup when Foltseva guarded the Moscow airport, persuading commissioners one by one to support Khrushchev, and the second time was to cut off Khrushchev’s supporters, it seems that the culture tsar has such a believable charm.

“You mustn’t forget that the city of Kalinin is the logistical base of the Moscow Military District. Do you know the division of labor in the Kalinin Vodka Group?” Foltseva confidently introduced, “Actually, these workers are divided according to the establishment, a production line were all once comrades of a unit. The shift leader is the team leader, the company commander is the unit leader, and the battalion commander is the production director.”

Kalinin Vodka can not break up the retired Soviet Army in Germany establishment, just a new name for production work, the people are still the same people, only for the time being no weapons.

Semichasne still gave Foltseva a piece of advice, there was no need to look for Podgorny’s supporters, when Shelest as a Ukrainian hand had an irreplaceable role to play in the rise of local nationalism, it was more or less the same to look for someone Shelbitsky had promoted.

“So it is.” Foltseva nodded at that, she really didn’t know the inside story of the struggle within Brezhnev and Podgorny.

Come to that, Cherest loved Ukraine and the Ukrainian language more than any other Kiev politician. Once he went to an oblast and noticed a slogan, “Finish the project a month ahead of schedule,” and noted with displeasure: “The slogan is written in Russian, but it is obvious that all the people working here are Ukrainians.”

Moscow is wary of such moves, seeing them as a sign of nationalism and separatism. Cherest relies on a segment of the Ukrainian intelligentsia that often speaks with anguish about what has happened to its people and blames Russia for its sins.

If Foltseva is in favor of the Chetniks, then these Ukrainian intellectuals in the field of culture are useful, if they are in favor of the Emergency Loading Committee, then these people cannot be approached.

“You’ll see when the time comes.” Foltseva didn’t say what she was up to, Arikseyev’s position was in a position to be drawn in, if the Emergency Committee was thundering, then surely there was nothing to say, but after the first day’s events it was clear that one couldn’t follow this group of fools as cannon fodder.

Mother and son of this time, but also Foltseva in this life experienced the third coup d’état has a consensus, to be the one who is not controlled by the fate of the person.

After a long call and anticipation of various contingencies, mother and son decided to see how well the Emergency Committee acted, and if it was still this farcical, to side with the Russian President.

Time so precious thing is wasted by these members of the Emergency Suit Committee, which makes Aliksheyev can not bear to look at the bystanders are so angry, Defense Minister Yazov and KGB Chairman Kryuchkov is no more, the two men, although they know that this is not a small matter, but is not the leader of the executive branch, the name of the executive branch or need to be the leader of the executive branch to step in, Vice President Yazov, Prime Minister Pavlov could all be such people, not the two of them.

In the midst of the precious time, Yazov made an appeal at the Defense Ministry to the members of the Soviet Communist Party in the army to strengthen their unity in defense of the motherland, an appeal that woke up Yakovlev straight away.

The former Minister of Propaganda, now advisor to the President, brought a reporter from Kommersant directly to him, accused the conservatives of the Soviet Communist Party of wanting a coup d’état, and announced on the spot that he was quitting the Soviet Communist Party.

Allen Wilson, who had been holding back from contacting the Moscow side, was staring at any news from Moscow almost every day, heard Yakovlev’s public remarks, glanced at the clock, it was only August 16th, and took a deep breath, what a farce.

The secret machinations of one of the strongest formations of a coup group in history could be seen even by someone who was now only an advisor to the president, which showed what level these members were at.

This appeal of the Ministry of Defense, directly let Kryuchkov can not sit still, at this moment he has a kind of clown is actually his own feeling, he has just felt, even if the head of several administrative departments can not be relied on, as long as he and Yazov is not a problem, so that Yazov and they stand on the field on the line.

But did not expect this head of the military in no action before, through a public put their purpose all out, angry Kryuchkov directly find Yazov, open letter why do not consult with him, Yazov does not feel that there is a problem, “let the people understand our purpose.”

“What nonsense, we could have made things happen and then explained.” Kryuchkov took a deep breath, he hadn’t expected the Defense Ministry to be so naive.

Yakovlev’s maneuvering like this caused a direct disagreement in the Emergency Committee, and for a while there were voices that it was still a good idea to act rashly.

Fortunately, Yanayev is still on the side of the two powerful department heads, now it is too late to retreat, August 20 is the day of the signing of the new alliance treaty, how to do it.

Kryuchkov opened his mouth and addressed the other members, “Our established plan is to take control of, among other things, the headquarters of the television station, the train station, and the White House, where the congressmen work, on the grounds that someone is going to start an armed uprising. I also found a blacklist of us government officials and family members who will be executed.”

“Executing them isn’t going to happen.” Yanayev said immediately upon hearing this, he knew this was the reason for the operation, but to start out with the intention of killing people would inflame the current situation in the Soviet Union.

Kryuchkov looked at Yanayev silently for a long time before saying, “This is just a reason for action, it doesn’t mean we really wish to kill people.”

The reason for the armed uprising was eventually accepted by everyone, and at this time in the city of Kalinin, the Tsar of Culture felt a force of karma in the underworld, as if someone was chanting about her, and Kryuchkov would not have thought that there was really someone plotting to reach their goal with a military action.