30.08.2021, Aleksandrovskoye.
Chairman of the Soviet KGB Vladimir Kryuchkov was offered to assume the role of dictator in 1991 during the August Coup, but he refused, said political analyst and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan in his article entitled “Human, too human…” published in the Essence of Time newspaper on August 19.
Vladimir Kryuchkov was one of the leaders of the State Committee on the State of Emergency (SCSE) and the KGB Chairman in 1988-1991. Not long before his death Kryuchkov told Kurginyan about an offer to be made a dictator. The SCSE was organized on August 18, 1991, two days later some people came to Kryuchkov proposing a plan to him to eliminate Gorbachev in order to secure Kryuchkov’s rise to power.
“Vladimir Aleksandrovich, if you give us your consent, we will do the following. We will kill every member of the SCSE, except you, as well as Gorbachev and his accomplices. Then we will shoot all these bastards that have gathered around the House of the Soviets, and we will make you the dictator. If not, we will wash our hands of the conflict,” said the ex-Chairman of the KGB to Kurginyan.
Kryuchkov refused this offer. “It is striking how all the KGB leaders had so many virtues. They were capable and even brave. Their main flaw: they were very good people in the full sense of the word,” wrote Kurginyan.
The political scientist believes that the KGB leadership in 1980s, including Kryuchkov, had a very different kind of character than the prominent KGB figures of the previous era, like Lavrentiy Beria and Pavel Sudoplatov. According to Kryuchkov’s memories, KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov asked him as his deputy if there would be a nuclear war. Kryuchkov responded, “While the USSR exists, there will be no such war”.
“As I see it, even if some magician could have shown to Kryuchkov that he had only two options: either he accepts the offer, meaning the bloodshed, or there will be a nuclear war, Kryuchkov could not have given his consent to physically eliminate all his conspirators inside the SCSE. Beria could have given such a consent. But Kryuchkov was not Beria, he was an anti-Beria,” explained Kurginyan.
In his article “Human, too human…” Sergei Kurginyan told about KGB Chairman in 1967-1982 Yuri Andropov’s plan. Andropov wanted to separate the central part of the USSR (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) from the so-called ballast of Asian and Caucasian republics in order to join Europe.
According to the plan that was established even in 1970s, it was decided to unite the West and East Germany that would be an ally of the USSR’s “core”. Under these circumstances, Russia with its nuclear weapon and influence supposedly could join Europe and push the USA out.
For the sake of this plan, Andropov and his followers from the KGB leadership destroyed the communist ideology, with its place supposed to be taken by a unifying ethnic component.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
