Chapter 1761 August 19th

Similarly the State of Emergency Committee did not cut off the external communications of the Villa Foros, because Aliksheyev was still able to contact the guard forces around this villa.

No occupation of the radio and television stations, no ordering of categorical measures against the Chetniks, no cutting off of external communications at the head of the map.

Not even the coup forces of a small African country would have been so amateurish, and this setup was a loophole in the face of the most coup-experienced mother and son in all the Soviet Union.

Keeping a close eye on the White House, Arikseyev watched as a contingent of more than twenty people’s deputies left the White House, and after identifying the departing members, Arikseyev checked to see that these were all political allies of the Russian president, but that Vice-President Rutskoyin, Acting Chairman of the Parliament Khasbulatov, and the government prime minister, Siraev, were not among the ranks of these exiles.

“Arrest them secretly.” Alexeyev hadn’t wanted to increase his role, but had ceded command to Lubyanka, but Lubyanka had done nothing, so it was up to him to wipe his ass.

Putting down the phone, Alexeyev thought back to the vigorous miracle that had taken out the pro-American Indonesian military directly in Jakarta more than twenty years ago, and he felt that Yazov still owed something to his position as Minister of Defense.

Communications should have been cut off from the Soviet Union, especially from the frontier garrisons, especially the side facing the Khitans, and the garrisons everywhere should not have been allowed the opportunity to wait for the coup.

If the military actions of the coup were to be carried out in the vicinity of the Moscow military district, the success rate would have been much higher, and in general the coup was very ill-considered.

The eighteenth was the last day of Maplehead’s vacation, and the morning seemed to be exactly the same as the other days of his vacation in the Crimea.

He and Lyssa woke up at eight in the morning, ate breakfast, and then went down to the beach around eleven in the morning, their every move recorded by two KGB guards.

As usual, Lysa went down for a swim, and Maputo stayed on the beach: a few days earlier, he had suffered a sudden attack of back pain, and now he couldn’t touch the water.

Just minutes earlier, two KGB officers and General Plekhanov, the head of the KGB guard service, had arrived in the Crimea and ordered Tamara Vigulina, an operator who worked at the KGB-run government communications center, to cut the dacha’s phone lines. However, as soon as the call ended, all the telephone lines from the villa that had made contact with the outside world were cut off.

“President, a guest from Moscow wants to visit you.” Medvedev, the Director of Personal Security, being the only one who kept in contact with the outside world, learned that the members of the Emergency Committee were coming to see Maphead and had already arrived and were on their way to Villa Foros.

“Oh, yes.” Maphead was momentarily startled, then calmed down and replied, “Since it’s urgent, I’ll wait for my comrades.”

Waiting for Medvedev to leave, Map Head directly picked up the phone, unsurprisingly the entire villa’s external communications had been cut off, his feeling was correct, someone had coup d’état, but he didn’t know who yet, Map Head was undeterred and dialed five consecutive numbers, including the red phone, which had the highest level of secrecy, and all of them were busy.

“Honey, maybe things aren’t too bad.” Mrs. Lyssa reassured Maphead, “Let’s see what they want.”

“You don’t have to comfort me either.” Maphead replied to his lady, “It’s just as Yakovlev said, a coup d’état, I just don’t know who the exact people are.”

It was now certain: this was the coup, and these visitors had not only violated protocol by arriving uninvited, they had also cut off the Soviet leaders from the outside world.

However, considering the political conventions, it was not a bad thing to talk before doing anything, and Maphead had a certain amount of confidence in his heart, and ten minutes later, Defense Minister Yazov appeared at the dacha, and in addition to Yazov himself, there were also Plekhanov, Bolkin, Scheinin, and Valenikov.

Appeased his family, the map head decided to talk to the people who came, see the people who came to the map head instantly heart relieved, in addition to Valenikov, the commander-in-chief of the army, the rest of the people are his hand to promote the people, know that most of these people are his own promotion, the people who are the most powerful, the people who are the most powerful.

Knowing that most of these people are his own promoted cronies, the map head instantly have a bottom line, did not wait for Yazov to open his mouth first asked, “This is not an arrest operation.”

“Mikhail, it’s not like that, I came here just to talk to you about the seriousness of the New Alliance Treaty.”

Yazov sighed, Kryuchkov had originally resolved against his coming, however, Yanayev and the others still suggested that it would be best to get Maphead to accept it, and for once Yazov didn’t side with Kryuchkov, instead favoring Yanayev.

A king can not take seven bronze, let alone Kryuchkov at best a gold, the only silver segment of the defense minister also said that he can not be rough on the supreme leader, he can not help.

However, the good thing is that the situation in Moscow is still in the middle of the smooth, the White House has been controlled, Kryuchkov does not know, this is the director of the Moscow Security Bureau in the dark to help him wipe his ass.

The head of the map relaxed in his heart after seeing the visitor, and under the consideration of not harming his family, he used words to make Yazov understand, “Yazov, you should understand who the real opponent is, in fact, if you can stabilize the situation, you can control this country. Instead of being in the middle of a villa, talking to me about something serious.”

The meaning of the head of the map is very simple, if you are able to deal with the Khitans, there is no problem to put him under house arrest now, and if they are really worried about the situation in the country, then they should convene the Congress of the Supreme Soviet and the Congress of People’s Deputies, so that all of them can discuss it together and make a decision. But only within the framework of the Constitution and the law.

While the discussion was going on in the dacha, Gnelarov was also taking a call from Moscow, “Plekhanov? When he, the head of the General Directorate, went solo in the new Directorate, he took all my men with him. Now what is the movement of Yazov and the others.”

“Don’t know yet, General.” Gneralov’s voice gloated a little; the fact that General Plekhanov, the head of the Ninth Main Directorate, had been refused reception and called a traitor by Maphead was the same thing he had just told Alexeyev in the middle of the conversation.

“These people have big problems. You have to be careful.” Alexeyev looked at the time and said, “Let’s call it a day, I’ll be calling you tomorrow.”

“General, my son the deputy.” Gneralov didn’t let the phone hang up right away, although Alexeyev had already given him a lot, this time it was only right that he should be more sincere.

“Deputy?” Alekseyev laughed out loud when he heard that, “Director, ah, that boy is quite good, the Moscow Kalinin Security Service needs such a talent.”

After the conversation ended, the map head, although he was always smiling in front of his old subordinates, he could still feel sadness in his heart, all of them, everyone in the Emergency Committee, all of them he promoted, all of them used to be his staunchest supporters.

As for Yazov and the others, these people on the way to Foros, high spirits, and talk about the weather, and on the way back is annoyed, most people silent.

It seemed to them that Maphead should rightly take their advice, after all, he himself was under control, but on the contrary, Maphead found confidence in the presence of his old men.

Before his departure, Yazov informs Medvedev, “Send the nuclear code box to Moscow tomorrow.”

“Darling, I’m so scared.” First daughter Irina Virganskaya, shocked and delighted, listened to Arikseyev’s reassuring voice and said, “Are you all right, and what is the situation in Moscow now?”

“I’m glad you’re all right, Irina.” Aliksheyev conversed while two teachers in military uniforms were next to him, people who taught psychology at the KGB school, the state of Moscow right now was impossible to answer, but he hoped that his First Daughter would be able to talk to Maphead about his own desire to send someone to remove the nuclear code box.

“Father won’t agree. But Medvedev wants to keep the nuclear code box, and father didn’t refuse.” Irina Verganskaya was a little embarrassed, “Father was rather relieved to know that the coup makers were Yanayev.”

“It’s a good thing that these people are still polite, otherwise I’d make them look bad if something happened to my child.” Alikseyev changed the subject once again, only he rolled his eyes as he spoke; although he had estimated it himself, he had inevitably failed to tense up after confirming it himself from his first daughter’s mouth, and Maphead had dismissed these coup members hastily.

Elena Verganskaya mentioned that the nuclear code box was already in Medvedev’s hands, and Arikseyev’s mind was reassured that it would be no problem, that someone would remove it from Medvedev’s hands.

Convincing Maphead that he had failed, Kryuchkov looked at the members who couldn’t be brought around and said, “We can’t wait any longer, the twentieth is the date of the signing of the Treaty of the New Alliance, declaring that Comrade Yanayev is exercising presidential powers, there’s no other way out of this now.”

Hoping that these men would come to their senses at this point and not be whimsical again, the members of the Emergency Committee nodded at Kryuchkov’s insistence.

At six o’clock in the morning of the nineteenth, Nayef, together with the then Soviet Minister of Defense, Marshal Yazov, and the head of the KGB, and others, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Emergency Committee, ordered the armed forces to take over the power of the country, and issued a Message to the People of the Soviet Union.

“We appeal to you at a time of grave peril to the destiny of our Motherland and our peoples! Our great Motherland is in mortal danger! ……”

On August 19, 1991, with the release of the Book of the People of the High Soviet Union, troops from the Moscow Military District who had received the order departed from their posts and entered Moscow to take over order in the capital.

The dacha security chief, Medvedev, who was carrying the nuclear code box, had just stepped out of the dacha on his way to the airport when he was intercepted by the police force, and Gnelarov got out of his car and looked at the dacha security chief, “Comrade Medvedev, I don’t know if that’s the proper term for it, give the nuclear code box to the right hands.”