19.08.2021, Moscow.
The elite of the USSR prepared the conditions to disintegrate the country through organizing shortage of goods and undermining the economy, Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Yuri Prokofiev said in an interview to the Rossa Primavera News Agency.
According to Prokofiev, the shortage of goods in the late Soviet Union was deliberately organized to disintegrate the country.
“How could they close all the major tobacco factories at a time having a planned economy? In order to trigger discontent,” Prokofiev said.
He reminded that the country was in a hard period due to low oil prices that had fallen to the production cost level, which dramatically reduced the import of consumer goods. However, there was no “tragic situation in economy” of the USSR immediately before the coup d’etat attempt, Prokofiev believes.
According to the former leader of Moscow communists, the shortage of goods in that period was made deliberately. Prokofiev referred to evidence provided by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1985-1991 Nikolay Ryzhkov. In one of his works he wrote about refrigerators with butter, meat, cheese that were kept at the outskirts of Moscow and other major cities, but no one unloaded them. According to Prokofiev, then Chairman of the Moscow Soviet Executive Committee Gavriil Popov ordered not to allow trucks with food to Moscow.
All major tobacco factories were simultaneously closed in the country, Prokofiev continues. Detergent plants were closed for renovation. The expert stresses that this could not happen incidentally in a planned economy.
Another example of deliberately organized shortage of goods was the halt of the production of chicken meal for poultry plants. This was allegedly a demand of environment activists. This killed the Soviet poultry sector.
Prokofiev stresses that, in spite of a hard situation in economy, “the country could have been saved.” The Soviet elite, however, according to the leader of Moscow communists, betrayed the country for the sake of capitalist profit.
According to Prokofiev, officials, party functionaries and scientific, technical, and creative intelligentsia “had led the country to a condition when it only needed a pulse to disintegrate. GKChP (State Committee on the State of Emergency ― Rossa Primavera News Agency) became this sort of a pulse.”
“I believe GKChP was a sort of a color revolution,” Prokofiev concluded.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
