Stanislav Kucher: "About August 91"

“It’s good that it’s impossible to look into the future and, based on what you see, make one choice or another. Because if exactly twenty-three years ago Vladimir Usov, Ilya Krichevsky and Dmitry Komar suddenly saw today’s Russia in all its glory, they would definitely stayed at home and drank vodka with friends.

Like tens of thousands of others who then came to the White House not because “people were hanging out,” but consciously, albeit naively, dreaming of a new, democratic Russia.

And then, most likely, the State Emergency Committee would have won, and these unfortunate fanatical old people would have tried to save the doomed Union, already bursting at the seams - with the help of tanks and sapper blades, they simply did not know how to do otherwise.”