by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics:
QUESTION: Why do you say the military will split? Is this routine?
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ANSWER: Throughout history, there have been many revolutions and coups. The most famous one in modern-day history is when Yeltsin stood on the tanks in Moscow and told the military not to fire on the people. They stood down and the Russian could that sought to overthrow Gorbachev and take the country back to Communism failed. Vladimir Kryuchkov, the coup’s leader, had published a two-volume memoir entitled “Lichnoye Delo”—”A Personal File.” He was the top spy for almost two decades, yet the US media never paid much notice to him. He was the embodiment of the old regime and its secret police. He was the real Soviet spymaster and was well known only to those of us who had insight into Russia aside from the CIA and the FBI.
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Kryuchkov was a young operative in Budapest who helped crush the Hungarian uprising in 1956, which launched his career. Kryuchkov rose through the ranks to be the head of the KGB’s First Chief Directorate and then as the spy agency chief. His climb up the political ladder was enabled because he handled two super-moles in the USA that were responsible for the worst damage ever done to U.S. intelligence – Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.
Then, it was August 1991 when Kryuchkov overestimated his power and organized a coup against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. I believe the real motive was that Russia was invited to join NATO, and Gorbachev was considering it. This is my prized autographed photo of Maggie and Gorbachev. Boris N. Yeltsin climbed on a tank and rallied the crowds against the coup’s leaders. Kryuchkov was thrown in Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina prison. He was charged and tried as a “betrayer of the Motherland.” He was released from prison in 1993 when the government of Boris Yeltsin saw there was a sense of nationalism and even Communist opposition on the rise. Kryuchkov was granted amnesty along with the other plot leaders, fearing it would not be wise to put him on trial pursuing the prosecution in the face of discontent with Yeltsin’s administration. Some of the coup members returned to politics, including in the Duma. Kryuchkov, however, retired. His memoirs were an effort to rehabilitate his reputation.
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