Chapter 1353: The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Shortly after Vice President Yanayev issued an order that the Soviet Union had entered a state of emergency, Ye Liqin, who had resigned and had become an ordinary person, stood up and soon set up a resistance command against the coup in the Russian parliament building, and gathered a large number of fox friends to form an anti-coup organization.
At 11 a.m. on 10 April, Yelichin held a news conference at the Russian Parliament building, where he read out a "Letter to Russian Citizens," declaring the State Emergency Committee "illegal" and a "reactionary coup d'état against the Constitution," demanding the immediate convening of the Extraordinary People's Congress of the Soviet Union, calling on "the citizens of Russia to give due response to the rebels," and calling for an indefinite strike throughout Russia.
When the news spread abroad, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Australia, and other Western countries spoke in unison and condemned the Soviet State Emergency Committee in the international community, forming a trend of encirclement and suppression. The United States also used its propaganda machine to broadcast Ye Liqin's speech calling for the overthrow of Yanayev and others with high power.
Three days later, Yelichin declared the takeover of all armed forces in Russia null and void an order issued by Soviet Defense Minister Yazov. Yelichin ordered the Soviet and KGB troops deployed on the territory of Russia to stand by and all units that left their places of origin must return immediately. Yeliqin also appointed his own cronies as military leaders, and at the same time spoke by telephone with the US president and the British prime minister, seeking international support and calling on the West to demand the release of Gorbachev.
What is strange to everyone is that, just like in previous lives, the leaders of the coup d'état retreated, and the next cousins were far from being as ambitious and bold as they were when they started the coup, but repeatedly backed down, not only releasing Gorbachev who was under house arrest, but also refraining from any counterattack on what Yeliqin did, and allowing Yeliqin and others to agitate the people against the emergency committee and seize power from the army.
Not for a few days. These coup backbones either committed suicide or were arrested, and Gorbachev returned to the presidency, but most of his power was taken away by Yeliqin and others. While Gorbachev was busy punishing those who carried out the coup d'état and if he was regaining power, Yeltsin signed an agreement on the establishment of the "Commonwealth of Independent States" on behalf of Russia and the leaders of the republics of Ukraine and Belarus, who had insisted on signing a new alliance treaty, and Gorbachev.
The agreement said that "the Soviet Union, as a subject of international law and geopolitical realities, is ceasing to exist," and they jointly met in Almaty, Kazakhstan, stating that the union republics were ready to participate in the "Commonwealth of Independent States" as "equal founding states". The Alma-Ata Declaration was issued. It was officially announced that "the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) would cease to exist", and after the meeting they signed a circular informing Gorbachev that "the establishment of the post of President of the USSR should be abolished".
With this notice, Gorbachev turned into an old man with no power.
Unlike previous lives, these republics and some non-republics have gone further and changed beyond recognition. The day after the Alma-Ata Declaration was issued, there were people in the Union Republic who did not recognize the declaration, which had been signed by the leaders of the existing Union Republics. They have declared complete independence and demanded the re-election of new leaders......
Lithuania, Estonia, and Armenia have even announced their applications to join NATO, and Outer Mongolia has announced its accession to China.
The Soviet troops, who were on the front line in Czechoslovakia, took it upon themselves to reach a cease-fire agreement with the European and American countries, dropped their baggage and heavy equipment, and retreated back to China with a hula. Even those high-ranking officers who were in charge of the negotiations had not returned, and the army left them alone and left on their own. So much so that those officers suddenly lost their qualifications to negotiate and became ordinary soldiers without any power.
As the Soviet army fled, and as they each grabbed their vehicles and rushed to their hometowns, the fifteen Soviet republics began to scramble to form their own states. In addition, many local power groups have also taken advantage of the fire to loot. The establishment of their own states was proclaimed, the most famous of which were two, one was the Republic of Tobol, which was proclaimed in the Tyumen region by a group of officials headed by the mayor of Tyumen; One is the proclamation of the Far Eastern Republic in Vladivostok by servicemen headed by the commander of the Far Eastern Military District.
In addition, beating, smashing, and looting occurred everywhere in the Soviet Union. Sporadic gunfire rang out everywhere, and there were even tanks joining one of the parties to the conflict. Cases of deaths and injuries continued everywhere, the entire Soviet Union became a pot of porridge, refugees began to appear in droves, and began to rush to neighboring countries, including China.
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Not to mention that the European and American countries were dumbfounded, such a powerful country suddenly became leaderless, full of violence and blood. In the face of such a powder-keg country, the leaders of Europe and the United States were surprised but hesitant at the same time, not knowing whether to immediately take action and seize it, or to encourage separatist forces to split the Soviet Union into countless small pieces, or whether to encourage those local forces to burn, kill and loot, or to support a few large power groups for their own use......
This is true of the leaders of European and American countries, and the leaders of China are also suffering from gains and losses. Although the central bosses had received hints from Guo that they were fully prepared for the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were caught off guard by the fact that it had collapsed in this way, so quickly, and the situation had become so bad.
Even Guo Zhuocheng himself felt a little dazed but a little unconfident, this is not because the collapse of the Soviet Union was too fast, in fact, he was fully prepared for the early collapse of the Soviet Union, after all, the Soviet Union was stronger than the Soviet Union in this life in the previous life, and the national strength of China in the previous life was much weaker than that of this life, and the rise of China greatly weakened the political foundation of the Soviet Union in this life, and even hollowed out the trust of the Soviet people in the government, and it was impossible not to disintegrate in advance. What's more, this advance time is not much, just more than a year in advance.
Guo Zhuocheng is at a loss because the collapse of the Soviet Union in this life is too violent, too violent, and the situation changes too violently, which is likely to lead to a major war within the Soviet Union, and even a world war.
Although the previous Soviet Union collapsed with a coup d'état launched by the Soviet high-level www.biquge.info, the coup d'état at that time and after the failure of the coup d'état were very peaceful, and the coup leaders basically only shouted a few slogans, put Gorbachev under house arrest, and did not take any measures against Yeliqin and others who opposed the coup. So much so that Ye Liqin and others took over the army and various government agencies very smoothly, and then convened a meeting of the leaders of the other union republics, and divided the Soviet Union very peacefully, and there was no turmoil in the entire Soviet Union that the world feared.
The main reason is that the government institutions of the Soviet Union have been functioning all the time, and have been playing the role of managing and guiding the people, maintaining social order and maintaining relative normality. Although Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Ye Liqin carried out deep-seated reforms to confuse the Soviet Union's top leaders and make these high-level leaders at a loss, because of the time relationship and the inertia of politics, there has not been a major chaos in the grass-roots leadership and basic organizational structures, especially the leaders of the union republics are still recognized by the governments at all levels below them, so these leaders still have the ability and courage to lead the republics to appear as a whole and change in the form of the whole, so they are relatively orderly. There will not be much turmoil, especially among the people, and many ordinary people will wait and see the changes in the situation with indifferent eyes.
But in this life, after the failure of the coup d'état, it suddenly became violent, first of all, the leaders of those union republics were questioned by the governments at all levels under their management, they lost the authority of their previous life, and they lost the legitimacy recognized by the vast majority of people, which is also the reason that after they signed the "Alma-Ata Declaration" on behalf of the union republics, the countries did not calmly divide the Soviet Union, but broke out internal power struggles, and many ambitious people strongly demanded the re-election of leaders, Some even adopt or are preparing to adopt violent ways to obtain their own interests. This is the main reason for the general turmoil in the Soviet Union in this lifetime.
The second reason is that because the Soviet Union sent troops to Czechoslovakia and sent a large number of military forces to the west to confront European and American countries, the military strength in various parts of the country was empty, so that many people saw opportunities, in addition to directly or indirectly encouraging the ambitions of those local forces, giving them the confidence to resist their superiors, reducing the risks and difficulties of their struggle for power, and also giving opportunities to certain military groups, especially the military leaders in the Far East. Besides, Moscow is not monolithic, and some high-ranking officials also need their own backing and hope that there will be forces to support them, so they will encourage them, allow them benefits, and support them to establish themselves as kings.
Under the manipulation of these military bigwigs, they who want to fish in troubled waters naturally know that the more chaotic the situation, the better, and the more chaotic it is, they can not only reduce the pressure from above, but the senior officials in Moscow will put out fires everywhere, promise everywhere, and suppress everywhere, where will there be more energy and strength to fight against the military bloc? And the military clique can also bargain left and right with more ambitious people.
You must know that the Soviet Union is a nuclear power, and almost every military bloc has nuclear weapons in its hands to a greater or lesser extent, not to mention that the senior officials of the Soviet Union do not dare to rashly send troops to suppress it, even if they have troops in their hands, even European and American countries and China do not dare to act rashly, who knows what actions these power-eyed guys will make in despair? It is not impossible to take a risk and press the nuclear button to end up together.
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