80-year-old Gorbachev said he did not believe the Prevention of Bush made a few weeks before he was temporarily deposed. He believed that Soviet hardliners "would have to be idiots" to oust him and seize control of the parliament building in Moscow in an attempt to reverse his reforms, says "New York Times." "But, unfortunately, it was really stupid" – he said. As a result of the coup, Gorbachev, who at that time vacationing on the Black Sea, was deposed for three days with its own vice-president Gennady Yanayev and Vladimir Kryuchkov head of the KGB. "I did not have to go on the vacation. It was a mistake, "- declared Gorbachev. When he briefly returned to the Kremlin, the real winner was his main rival, Boris Yeltsin, who climbed onto a tank to defy the coup leaders. But Gorbachev expressed regret that did not keep Yeltsin's "thirst for power" before. "We had to send his ambassador to the banana republic that he's smoked a hookah – in peace and quiet," – said former Soviet leader. Gorbachev praised Bush for his support, saying that he tried to stop the independence movement in Ukraine and the Baltic states, aware of the instability that may occur in the case of the Soviet collapse.
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