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Gorbachev apparently was listening if not watching. His security guards stayed with him at the Foros dacha, scrounged up some old radio receivers that had been forgotten but not discarded, and set up a jury-rigged antenna so they could monitor foreign radio coverage of the coup. Gorbachev later praised the reporting of the British Broadcasting Corp., Radio Liberty and Voice of America -- without seeming to recognize the irony that all three networks had been jammed by the Soviet government not so very long ago. Though he said he had been subjected to intense "psychological pressure," this apparently consisted...
When Kryuchkov and Yazov arrived at his dacha, Gorbachev refused to see them; he demanded that they be arrested (Lukyanov was not arrested but was suspended from his job pending an investigation). Rutskoi and his gun-toting party, who got to the dacha shortly after, were delighted to do that job. They frisked both Kryuchkov and Yazov; Kryuchkov offered no resistance, but the Defense Minister grumbled (neither was armed). Even then Rutskoi and his companions were worried that other plotters might try something. "We told the airport to prepare two planes to mislead the scoundrels," Rutskoi later said on Soviet...
...Communist Party Central Committee plenum, Gorbachev invited the leaders of nine of the 15 Soviet republics, including Russia's maverick chief, Boris Yeltsin, to a conference at a secluded dacha in the woods outside Moscow. The six republics that are bent on immediate independence -- Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldavia, Georgia and Armenia -- were not asked...
...General Secretary in March 1985. Yeltsin soon arrived in Moscow as Central Committee Secretary for Construction, and Gorbachev later selected him for the tough task of cleaning up the corrupt Moscow party apparatus. With that job came candidate membership in the Politburo and such perquisites as a marble-lined dacha, a small army of servants and access to special Kremlin consumer stores. Far from being seduced by such luxury, Yeltsin was repelled, and that led to his wildly popular denunciations of high living by Soviet leaders...
Picture yourself seated in the garden of an elegant country dacha in an exclusive suburb of Moscow. You sip tea while you admire the golden hues of the lingering Russian sunset. Seated across from you, physicist Andrei Sakharov talks plainly about his life...