Yabloko honoured the memory of those who died defending democracy in Russia during the coup d’etat in 1991
Press Release, 21.08.2021
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov and other party members laid flowers at the monument to the Defenders of Democracy in Russia at the intersection of the streets Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring in Moscow.
Three young people – Dmitry Komar, Vladimir Usov and Ilya Krichevsky – died here 30 years ago, during the days of the August coup d’etat.
“In August 1991, the aging communist elite tried to retain power in the country and make impossible the changes that were inevitable. Every year we come here to lay flowers and honour the memory of Dmitry Komar, Vladimir Usov and Ilya Krichevsky. The history of the [so-called] State Emergency Committee [GKChP, that led the coup d’etat] has proved that one cannot stand in the way of changes and people’s desire to live free in their own country,” Rybakov stressed.
Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
Ivan Bolshakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, noted that the August coup was a dangerous operation of the security forces and the nomenklatura against the will of the absolute majority of the country’s citizens, but it was doomed to failure.
“Every Russian politician should learn a lesson from these events,” Bolshakov said.
Posted: August 23rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.