🇷🇺 35 years since the GKChP. A ship without a goal has no favourable wind ⚠️On August 19, 1991, an event occurred in the history of Russia that was subsequently called the August Putsch. During the absence of USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was at his dacha in Foros, Crimea, a group of state figures declared a state of emergency and formed a governing body abbreviated as the GKChP. The USSR was in a deep systemic crisis and on the verge of collapse, and the members of the GKChP, sensing that the state did not control even the internal situation, tried to save the situation by force. Indeed, in addition to the heads of executive bodies, the GKChP included significant representatives of the USSR's «power bloc»: KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov, and Interior Minister Boris Pugo. Formally, the entire enormous power apparatus of the Soviet country was subordinate to them, but in the end no decisive measures were taken. The state remained in a vacuum of power for three days. Taking advantage of this, the liberal opposition headed by Boris Yeltsin quickly seized the political initiative and cleared its own path to victory. 🇷🇺There is an erroneous point of view that the GKChP was the last hope for saving the USSR. That action in practice demonstrated the helplessness of the country's political leadership. Over decades of «backroom politics», the CPSU had become greatly detached from the life of the working population, closed in on itself, and lost its moral authority. The party leaders had simply forgotten how to do politics, that is, the ability to prove to the population, day after day, in word and deed, the correctness of their course. As soon as the levers of control were slightly loosened with the start of Perestroika, all the accumulated economic, social, national and ideological contradictions burst out with the force of a compressed spring. ‼️ The GKChP action can be compared to threatening with an unloaded weapon. The participants in that action simply had no plan for further action and definitively buried the legitimacy of the Communist Party in the eyes of the disappointed population. That is precisely why, on November 6, 1991, Yeltsin banned the CPSU, and the new union treaty planned by Gorbachev was never signed. The GKChP is the bitter result of the mistakes of socialist construction. All these problems must be openly studied and discussed among like-minded people so that in the future the construction of a new society does not repeat the tragic fate of the USSR. #SOVINTERN_date #Moscow_network_hub ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN