After Andrei's proclamation as the new General Secretary, protests erupted across the Soviet Union exactly as expected.
Some demonstrations were spontaneous, others clearly organized, but all shared the same furious energy with crowds pouring into the streets, banners raised high, voices shouting for the Emergency Committee to step down.
But as always, hope did not last long.
The demonstrations soon twisted into full-scale riots. Shops were smashed open, cars overturned and set ablaze, and in broad daylight some women were harassed and assaulted by the very men claiming to fight for "democracy" and "freedom."
The people's expectations at the beginning turned into disappointment. These people are not targeting the government, but plundering their own property, just like an upright robber breaking into home and plundering under the banner of justice.
Worryingly, the largely undecided senior army officers didn't follow the instructions of the central government to impose the martial law , they secretly observed and did not act. In some cases they even stopped reporting directly to the central high-level every half hour.
When Andrei realized that the actions of these fence sitters , he finally issued the order The long-prepared clearing order.
Unionist armored units rolled simultaneously into Leningrad and Volgograd, one the western transport artery of the Union, the other the breadbasket of southern Russia.
Andrei would not allow a single city to fall into the hands of protesters or would-be revolutionaries.
Before deployment, he personally telephoned the commanders of all sixteen military districts.
And one by one, the generals answered the phone with trembling hands, repeating his instructions word for word.
Except one.
General Silchenko of the Ural Military District never received Andrei's instructions.
He had shot himself in his office three hours earlier.
Witnesses said a GRU operative entered Silchenko's office, spoke quietly with him for several minutes, and then left. Silchenko, pale and hollow-eyed, sat on his sofa smoking one cigarette after another. When he finished the last one, he calmly picked up his pistol and pulled the trigger.
Two hours later, his entire family "fell silent" as well.
Everyone in the army understood the message.
Everyone in the army knew that Shilichenko and Yeltsin had been flirting with each other. It took less than two hours for Yeltsin to fall, and Shilichenko followed suit.
Everyone knew what was going on,
"A Purge."
So when the commanders of other military regions received the call from Andrei, their hands trembled with fear.
Men who had grown fat on privilege and vodka suddenly found discipline again. Andrei ordered them to enforce martial law immediately and to hold position until he personally authorized withdrawal. Not a single one argued.
The more power a person has, the more he cherishes his life. These old people who have been ruined by alcohol and years would do anything in order to keep their status.
Andrei put down the phone.
For the first time, he tasted the sorrow of the Soviet Union.
Those who fought for the ideals of equality under communism lost their way long ago. Under the joy of power, they forgot the goal of their struggle and began to doubt their own ideals and beliefs. In the end, it becomes the small group of thugs who become rich in their own pockets. And those who are still fighting for their beliefs gradually become disappointed in the reality and finally choose to stand by and watch the motherland they fought for to collapse.
(Now it's not time to get sentimental. This is the road to power..)
Andrei picked up the rusty and faded sickle and hammer badge in the dust, feeling sad.
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On that day, the idealistic protesters still drunk on the sweet perfume of "false democracy" finally discovered what real power looked like.
When it collided with the iron treads of reality , the false euphoria that had inflated their spirits like cheap balloons evaporated the moment they heard the first grinding roar of armored vehicles. Those steel beasts, crawling inexorably forward on their tracks, would become a lifelong nightmare to anyone fortunate enough to survive the lesson being delivered.
The army began its work with the cold professionalism threw tear gas into the crowd, and when those people realized what it was, they were already choked up and couldn't keep their eyes open. A few brave souls attempted to hurl homemade Molotov cocktails at the soldiers, but the snipers who had already ambushed the roof broke their legs with compressed air.
Then the soldiers advanced. The Soviet Army had never cared for the theatrical Western style of suppression with batons and shields, which are literary and artistic weapons of suppression. They directly shot the protesters with painful but not fatal rubber bullets.
Andrei's order was not to show mercy to any of the thugs until you ran out of bullets. He said
"Forgiving those people is God's business, we are only responsible for sending them to see God. "
Anyone caught was fair game. If they were caught on the street, they would be beaten violently in the street, and if they were caught in the toilet, they would drown their heads in the toilet.
Rubber bullets tore through skin, bursting it like rotten fruit. Even when they didn't break flesh, they left grotesque purple welts the size of fists. These soft young idealists ,raised on Western music and gentle fantasies collapsed instantly.
The demonstrators were frightened. For the first time, these opponents realized how terrible the iron fist of dictatorship is.
Revolution suddenly didn't seem as fun.
They originally thought that mobilizing street politics would make the top leaders loose control. They did not expect that the newly appointed General Secretary was a butcher. They realize as long as the army and the state apparatus remain loyal to the leader, those who demanded social change will never have a chance.
Soon the KGB run mental hospitals received 100,000 new young patients.
The so-called leaders of the movement, the "champions" of freedom panicked immediately. Like circus clowns who realized the tent was on fire, they abandoned their followers and bolted for the border, leaving the deceived youth to enjoy the full warmth of Communist education.
Hundreds of these amateur revolutionaries were arrested. Many went on television sobbing that they had been "tricked."
Andrei only made a short comment on these people, "a funny show composed of cowards and garbage."
Those with "serious ideological symptoms" were sent to the Special Psychiatric Facility of the KGB for a lovely stay,complete with treatment so "effective" that for the rest of their lives, their legs would tremble at the mere words of democracy or freedom . Oh, how ironic.
What's more Andrei gave a lot of free hand to how the soilders conducted themselves with the protesters. Andrei, having no interest in reversing Gorbachev's private-property reforms, encouraged local commanders to seize the assets of detained protesters.
As expected extrajudicial execution, rape , murder and blatant sizer of property took place across the protest hit areas.
Naturally, capitalists smell blood in the water. In Smlonesk the local mafia don Nikita Olivier became the first billionaire in the Soviet union by helping the red army identify the decidents. In Azov brothels suddenly became cheap.
In Kiev a tank rolled over a recently married couple who were protesting in full view of international reporters.
In Minsk, both church and government cooperated in what could only be described as a medieval witch-hunt targeting unmarried women, because nothing stabilizes a nation quite like paranoia and moral panic.
The commander in Votensk ordered children of the protesters young as twelve to be assrested, he'll personally decide what to do with them.
....
The Amarican and European ambassis in the Soviet union were suddenly overrun by crowds of people. In order to establish the order and to 'protect' the ambassadors and punish those who vandalised the foreign embassy, the soviet army entered the embassy in order to "save " the people inside.
Soon they were saved, they were so thrilled to be saved that thousands of grown men and women couldn't help but to start crying. Creating an emotional scene, captured by cameraman and broadcasted throughout the planet.
Soon they will be taken to a largely fenced area to receive hospitality.
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In response to this cleanup, those intellectuals who claim to be the conscience of humanity began to accuse Anderi of what he was doing.
BBC compared Yanayev to a brutal, inhuman, iron-blooded tyrant and described him as a lunatic like Stalin.
Times make a cartoon version of Andrei depicting him as Napoleon on the throne but likely the artist being french, made him way cooler than it should.
Oh of course Gorvochov compared him with Hitler.
This is the first time that Alexander Solzhenitsyn took up the pen to write a story about a dictator. Before that, whether it was "Gulag Archipelago" or "Matrona's House", Solzhenitsyn only aimed at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union In his eyes, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is an evil political organization formed by countless greedy for rights to oppress human rights.
Solzhenitsyn picked up the pen and wrote the first sentence on the paper, "On a peaceful night on August 26, 1971, a baby cried in the peaceful village of Perevoz, Gorky Region. The parents of the newborn are celebrating that they finally have a child, and the man named the newborn Andrei Ivan Kornilov . They just didn't know that the child would be born in An important role in the future Soviet state. A veritable tyrant, a man who was the antithesis of liberal democracy...."
"'The Dictator' finally tore off all the hypocritical masks at this moment, revealing that sinister, dark face of the city. He used the most vicious means to attack those dissidents and played them with applause. The people Began to fear him, his friends beware of him, it seems that everyone has become an enemy at this moment. But the 'dictator' is not alone, and he doesn't mind, because his goal is to become the greatest ruler, the Tsar."
The western world criticized Anderi's actions.
Solidarity protests took place in front of soviet embassies access the globe.
The British also issued a statement saying that the Soviet Union's repression had shocked the UK.
In response to the United Kingdom's strong condemnation and providing asylum of Gorvochov, suddenly a series of bombings shook the UK.
Then Yanov, the vice president personally greeted the chief of IRA in his visit to Ireland.A bomb was thrown directly at a candlelight march on the embassy protesters, killing 5 in Berlin. One very close to Solzhenitsyn's home.
Sending the message.
At this point, the leaders of Western Europe finally understood that the General Secretary of the Soviet Union at this time may really be an iron-blooded tyrant not to be underestimated.
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