The failure of perestroika at the time was a result of the actions of the emergency Committee and those who took advantage of the situation after the coup for the country’s collapse, but that doesn’t negate its importance, said to RIA Novosti, the former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Thursday marks 35 years since the April Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist party, which is considered to be the date of the beginning of perestroika. Gorbachev is often called the "father" perestroika, he became the General Secretary of the Central Committee shortly before the Plenum.
"the Failure of perestroika in 1991 was the result of actions of the coup putsch and those who took advantage of the situation after the coup to destroy the country. But it is in any case not negates the value adjustment", – said Gorbachev.
On the night of August 19, 1991, senior Soviet leadership who disagree with the policies of Gorbachev’s reforms and draft a new Union Treaty, created State emergency Committee in the USSR (GKCHP of the USSR). This date entered the history of the state as the August coup. In this day held an attempt to remove Gorbachev from the post of President and to change its course.
A few dozen tanks in those days came close to the House of the Supreme Council and the government of the Russian Federation on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment (the White house). Resistance to the coup was headed by the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin and the Russian leadership. Yeltsin signed decrees in which the creation of the emergency Committee were qualified as a coup attempt; the Federal Executive authorities, including law enforcement agencies, was reassigned to the President of Russia.
