State Committee on the State of Emergency
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The State Committee on the State of Emergency (Russian: Госуда́рственный комите́т по чрезвыча́йному положе́нию,
From 22 to 29 August 1991, former members of the dissolved SCSE and who actively assisted them were arrested, but from June 1992 to January 1993, they were all released on their own recognizance.[6][7][8][9] In April 1993, the trial began. On 23 February 1994, the defendants in the SCSE case were amnestied by the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation,[10][11] despite Yeltsin's objection.[12] One of the defendants, General V.I. Varennikov, refused to accept the amnesty and his trial continued, which he ultimately won.
Diplomatic support came from:.
Members
The eight members were:
- Gennady Yanayev (1937–2010), Vice President
- Valentin Pavlov (1937–2003), Premier
- Boris Pugo (1937–1991), Interior Minister
- Dmitry Yazov (1924–2020), Defense Minister and Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Chairmanof the KGB
- Oleg Baklanov (1932–2021), First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Council of the USSR
- Vasily Starodubtsev (1931–2011), Chairman of the Peasants' Union of the USSR
- Alexander Tizyakov (1926–2019), President of the Association of State Enterprises
Pugo committed suicide via gunshot to avoid arrest, while the other seven members were arrested. However, there is some speculation that he may have been murdered instead.[17]
Coup d'état
The
Court trials
On December 14, 1992, a year after the attempted coup, the Prosecutor General of Russia Valentin Stepankov approved the indictment in the GKChP case.[18] It was sent to the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Anatoliy Ukolov, a deputy chairman of the Collegiate, was charged with reviewing the case, and the hearing was scheduled for 26 January 1993. The defendants included the aforementioned seven living members of the group plus Oleg Shenin (1937–2009), Politburo and secretariat member; Anatoly Lukyanov (1930–2019), Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union; and Valentin Varennikov (1923–2009), General of the Army, Deputy Minister of Defense, and Commander of Land Forces.
The trials lasted more than ten months, from 14 April 1993[19] until 1 March 1994. They were open to the public and press; however, foreign press did not participate due to lack of space in the courtroom. A prosecution commission was assigned to the case by the Collegiate, consisting of nine people and headed by Denisov, a Deputy Prosecutor General. The defense attorneys, Genri Reznik (Shenin), Genrikh Padva, Yuriy Ivanov (Kryuchkov), and Dmitriy Shteinberg (Varennikov) were hired, but in total, there were seventeen defense attorneys. After various delay tactics staged by the defense, the trial began on 30 November 1993. The main defendants were Yazov, Kryuchkov, Shenin, and Varennikov.
On 23 February 1994, the State Duma issued an amnesty to the defense,[20] and on 1 March 1994, the case was closed with all ten defendants accepting amnesty. Varennikov requested amnesty on the condition that Mikhail Gorbachev would be the next to be prosecuted, as he accused Gorbachev of creating the recent political disorder. The court rejected his petition, and upon Varennikov sending his request to the Prosecutor General's office, it was rejected again.
Ten days after the close, the Presidium of the Supreme Court revived the
Kryuchkov, Yazov, Shenin, and Pavlov were named as the main conspirators.
Further fate of GKChP members
Yazov spent 18 months in
Baklanov spent 18 months in Matrosskaya Tishina, and then accepted amnesty in 1994, stating that he was not guilty. He later worked as a director of Rosobshchemash.
Yanayev spent 18 months in Matrosskaya Tishina. He later became a chairman of the department of national history at the Russian International Academy of Tourism.[21]
Pavlov had been taken to a hospital during the coup with the diagnosis of
Evaluations of Anatoliy Ukolov's interviews
According to
References
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Obolensky, Georges (2013), Forever Russian: Memoirs of a Vagabond Prince, AuthorHouse, p. 152, ISBN 978-1481714761,
[...] a group of military brass and Communist Party hardliners, calling themselves the 'State Emergency Committee,' (later to be known as 'the gang of eight') attempted a coup d'état.
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- ^ "Пресс-конференция по делу ГКЧП. Шесть узников "Матросской тишины" получили свободу до приговора". 27 January 1993. Archived from the original on 2021-04-05. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
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- ^ Постановление Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации от 23 февраля 1994 г. № 65-1 ГД «Об объявлении политической и экономической амнистии»
- ^ "Борис Ельцин. Первый". Archived from the original on 2015-06-30. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
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- ^ "Апресян Р.Г. Народное сопротивление августовскому путчу". 2007-09-11. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ Ishërwood, Julian M. (19 August 1991). "World reacts with shock to Gorbachev ouster". United Press International. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
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- ^ "The Men Who Tried to Topple Mikhail Gorbachev". The Moscow Times. Russia. August 17, 2001. Archived from the original on September 5, 2001.
- ^ В Прокуратуре России
- ^ Суд над членами ГКЧП
- ^ Постановление Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации от 23 февраля 1994 г. № 65-1 ГД «Об объявлении политической и экономической амнистии»
- ^ Бывший вице-президент СССР Геннадий Янаев: Ручонки действительно подрагивали (in Russian). Версия. October 31, 2008.
- ^ Книга памяти: "Часпромбанк" (in Russian). Банки.ру.
External links
- Обращение ГКЧП к советскому народу (in Russian)
- Постановления № 1 и № 2 Государственного комитета по чрезвычайному положению в СССР (in Russian)
- Тринадцать лет спустя, или Три дня ГКЧП (in Russian)
- Как судили гекачепистов? (How were the GKChPsits trailed? Aug. 22, 2006) (in Russian)
- Суд над ГКЧП (GKChP court trials) (in Russian)
- Михаил Полторанин: «ГКЧП — величайшая провокация Горбачева!» (in Russian)
- ГКЧП 25 лет спустя. Разрушение советского Левиафана (in Russian)