I say thank God if what looked like civil war in really has been averted. I hate to think what would have happened to the endlessly oppressed, repeatedly robbed, stoical, brave Russian people if civil war had come to that country again.I was in Moscow the last time its government was overthrown in a coup d’etat, and I do not recommend such events for people of a nervous disposition. Dig almost anywhere in Russia and you find human bones with the marks of murder on them. The country is never far from total disaster.For those few terrifying hours, what had been one of the strongest, most rigidly ruled states in human history was on the lip of the abyss. The danger never entirely disappears. That August day in 1991, I walked out into my street after hearing the first lying claims, on the radio, that the then President Mikhail Gorbachev was ‘ill’.
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