"At the end of July 1991, in the report of the KGB to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR, Leonbefore Kravchuk was informed about the scenario of the possible collapse of the USSR, which was predicted in the USA. The head of the KGB of the USSR, Volodymyr Kryuchkov, will claim that a few years earlier they felt the approach of collapse. What happened behind the scenes of the August putsch, which made the collapse of the USSR quick and irreversible? How did...