Did Russian secret services avert military coup in Sverdlovsk?

[Magda Hassan]

Google translation of Russian article.

Ekaterinburg: GKChP won?
08.08.2011 YDAB11 1699 156 18
Tags: ussr , history , Yekaterinburg , Emergency Committee

On the eve of 20th anniversary of the attempted military coup in the Soviet Union FSB failed to prevent another military revolt. As reported by the journalists of the Urals, Yekaterinburg arrested five alleged organizers of the coup: among them 65-year veteran of the Afghan war, a businessman and a retired criminal investigator.

Plan revolt was as follows: August 2, when the main forces of the police are left to control airborne daring, attack a group of militants burst into the local department of the FSB, Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Emergency Situations and killing their superiors. After that blow up several electrical substations and deprive the city of electricity. In a panic, which is believed the plotters, inevitably cover Yekaterinburg, they will be able to capture weapons caches and give machines the whole male population. Then in other regions of Russia will start a chain reaction of riots. In the end, plotters seize all power in the country and establish a military dictatorship. Investigators suspect that the attackers are associated with a retired Special Forces colonel Kvachkov, who unsuccessfully tried to condemn the assassination of Anatoly Chubais. Kvachkov and is now in jail because he was suspected of trying to organize an armed rebellion. If you believe the investigators, the rebellion was under the scenario to become Yekaterinburg. Last summer in the woods near Vladimir thence security officers detained leader Togliatti cell kvachkovskogo "People's Militia of Minin and Pozharsky name" Peter coll. Galkin was armed. In his hand was ... crossbow. The detainee immediately gave testimony to Kvachkov. According to the concept of a retired colonel, half a thousand ex-military, armed, obviously, crossbows, were to meet in the Vladimir region, seize the arsenals of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and Highland Armored Division and then head to the side of Moscow.

I suspect that try to interest publishers by a thriller with a similar story, he still would have knocked their thresholds no chance of success. Because even the most daring fiction requires at least some connection with reality. Most of these plans look like gibberish of a Russian Breivik. Why would the death of chiefs of regional departments of intelligence and power outages to cause panic? Panicked why people should take the side of the rebels? Finally, to implement this plan, you have thousands of fighters and, therefore, an extensive underground organization, the existence of which until now no one noticed. Yekaterinburg is most impressive budget of a military coup - as much as 50 thousand rubles. Well just to known humoresque: a dozen more to bribe the President.

If Ekaterinburg Cheka arrested a nutcase who is a prisoner of such schemes, we should thank them. But when the same hallucinations appear immediately a few people, it smells like a provocation. Perhaps efesbeshniki not have been successful in the fight against the North Caucasian terrorists, the country's leadership decided to show their vigilance. Perhaps this is some preventive action after the December meeting of retired Marines. If so, nice security officers have selected several people with not too stable psyche and convinced them of the existence of a powerful underground anti-government organization. Finally, it is not excluded that the rights of the lawyer of one of the detainees. In his version, they are, it turns out, is not developed plans for a military coup, and the scenario playing airsoft. For all the strangeness of this explanation (to me, frankly, it's hard to imagine that the 65-year veteran of the Afghan war may be carried away by war games and shooting plastic balls), it is much more logical than the one that offered the investigating authorities.

The most interesting is that this story does not excite nor journalists nor the public. Countries emerging from 20 years ago, a very real attempt a military coup, is now such a threat did not touch them. The tragedy is a farce. 10 years ago, the question of whether military intervention in political life, vigorously debated. Besieged in the White House called Rutskoi troops to his aid. Chairman of the Duma defense committee, Lev Rokhlin sent dispatches to the commanders of military units with calls not to obey orders of the Supreme Commander. And this turn of events seemed, at least, the real military, for six months did not receive a salary, to rebel.
And then suddenly came the universal goodness. About the military coup only dream kvachkovtsy, which the KGB used to demonstrate their own vigilance. On the eve of the election authority quietly spends quite painful reforms in the Armed Forces and the Interior Ministry, which resulted in lost work about 350 thousand 30-40-year-old men who know how to handle weapons. It would seem - that's almost an exact repeat of the situation in the Weimar Republic. Unemployed angry security officials - the perfect army to Kvachkov. But nothing like this happens.

So what - that is, a real victory for democracy when a society no longer afraid of the "man with a gun?" Not at all, there is still no civilian control over security forces. Department of Defense and Interior continue to be a "state within a state", accountable only to two superiors.

Part of the reason for this peace of mind - in some, albeit very relative, but full. Shalye oil money allow retirees to promise benefits, and most importantly - free accommodation. In addition, they are not threatened unemployment. Since the Interior Ministry finally ceased to function, private security market is growing by leaps and bounds. And there is resentment for sewer trained Vladimir Zhirinovsky, delicately combining nationalism and great power with servility. And finally, the main thing. Senior officers became a corporation, great built-in Putin's vertical. All of them are quite wealthy. As with other Russian officials, their wives, children and other relatives - an extremely talented entrepreneurs. If they conflict with the authorities, it is only about the size of the piece, which allowed them to grab. The pillars of the regime, and not rebels. And with crossbows let losers like Kvachkov run. GKChP won, forget it. At least as long as the oil yield of more than $ 100 a barrel ...

Alexander Golts
Source: ej.ru

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