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...about 5 o'clock, Olga ran in: "Anatoli Sergeyevich! What's happening? ((Gorbachev's chief of staff Valeri)) Boldin, ((deputy chairman of the Defense Council Oleg)) Baklanov and ((Politburo member Oleg)) Shenin have come with a tall general in eyeglasses. I've never seen him." I saw a convoy of cars with aerials, some of them with lights flashing on the roofs, at the entrance of the office building, a swarm of drivers and guards. I peeped out the window that looked onto the presidential quarters: gloomy ((General Yuri)) Plekhanov ((head of the KGB department responsible for the security...
...told her everything about the plan for the tape. Gorbachev and I had been demanding that Olga be allowed to go to Mukhalatka ((the communications center about 12 miles away)), where her baby and heart-deficient father were. And from there, we hoped, on to Moscow...
Boris reported that the Russian parliamentary delegation was on the dacha premises. "Call them in now," said M.S. A couple of minutes later we joined them in the dining room. I will remember all my life the scene that followed. Silayev and Rutskoi ran up to Gorbachev and embraced him. Exclamations, some words spoken loudly. People interrupting each other. Bakatin and Primakov were also there. Those were all the guys who had cussed M.S. more than once in parliament and in the press, argued, expressed indignation and protested...
Once on the airfield, M.S. pretended he was getting out of his car to board the presidential plane, then immediately climbed back into the car, which instantly sped off for Rutskoi's plane, two or three miles farther away. So when Gorbachev, dressed in his cardigan, got out of the car and went to the airplane, those lieutenant colonels were standing with their rifles at the ready until he disappeared inside. Watching this scene, I thought that there is still an officer's honor in our army...
Then came the flight. M.S., together with his family, occupied a small compartment in the plane and called me in. Everyone laughed with relief. We were joined by Silayev, Rutskoi, Primakov, Bakatin and Dr. Igor Borisov ((Gorbachev's personal physician)). The talk centered on people, on their behavior in extreme situations, on immorality as a source of all ills. Toasts were proposed to ongoing life. It was then that Gorbachev spoke for the first time the words "We are flying into...