On December 30, 2019, Polozkov, a political activist who had served as a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, gave an exclusive interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda, revealing some previously little-known secrets.
In order to save the country, he said, at a meeting held in April 1991, several members proposed that Gorbachev should be expelled from the Central Committee of the CPSU and expelled from the CPSU. Seeing so many people against him, Gorbachev left the venue in a fit of rage.
But because some Politburo members still held their ground, attempts to expel Gorbachev from the Central Committee failed. None of the senior Soviet officials at that time were willing to stand up and take on the heavy responsibility of saving the Soviet Union.
Polozkov said that Lukyanov, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Kryuchkov, chairman of the KGB, and Ryzhkov, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, were three people who wanted to be the general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, who was then served by Gorbachev.
On the evening of the 30th, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev officially responded to the interview with his old comrade-in-arms Polozkov. Gorbachev said that it has been almost 30 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and some Soviet "old people" have occasionally told some secret stories about that era. This kind of detail, which is suddenly recalled decades later, is hard to believe.
Gorbachev made it clear that he believed that Comrade Porozkov's memories of his near expulsion from the CPSU in 1991 were, like the secrets told by others, all "lies" and "nonsense."
"In general, I feel that people (especially the people of the former Soviet Union) are still grateful to me, which is the most important thing and means that my work has not been in vain," Gorbachev said. ”
"The 'heroes' of that era are now rarely remembered, but people still remember me and respect me. I do not deny that there are still people who believe the gossip about me, but most people know that it was Gorbachev who made a great contribution to the development of the country during those difficult years. ”
Gorbachev was the first and last president of the Soviet Union. In December 1991, Gorbachev officially announced the collapse of the Soviet Union, but in his view, the organizers of the "819 Incident" should bear the main responsibility for the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1996, Gorbachev ran for president in Russia, but what surprised him was that he won less than one percent of the vote. (December 31, 2019, by Liu Peng)