Alfred's Diary
Dear diary,
I heard people talking about Mr. Braginsky today, and there was mention of his looking slightly better than yesterday. His temperature has finally dropped after many days of high fever, and he is beginning to talk to his nurses and clerks about the life and the weather - as he has done since the fever began - without any mention of work or politics. I don't know if there are signs of improvement, or the reasons for the precursors of improvement. But from what I can tell, this brief upturn vaguely reveals the last helpless cry of an immune system driven to desperation, desolate, pathetic and awe-inspiring.
The situation in recent months, let me put it this way, the situation in recent years seems to be running according to the plans of the central government of the United States of America. Whether it is a lackluster economic reform, a crude and haphazard political reform or a wholesale disregard for the introduction of culture, it is presented to the world in a manner that does not produce the slightest deviation. It is difficult to see how Braginsky, who had guarded the vast territory of the Great North since 1572, could have accepted such a radical change. Perhaps he saw it as an all-round democratization - provided he saw it as a good thing - which spread from the state system of government to the social life of the population. Just as when this Soviet regime was first established, Braginsky began to suffer from obvious physical discomfort from that time on. It was not until I met him much later that he recovered at least that sense of oppression from the high latitudes. At that time, he was already full of a vision of the future and infinite vitality, in contrast to me, who had just struggled to climb out of the mud, but this is not something I want to talk about today, and I am reluctant to mention it on some occasions.
But what is certain is that Braginsky's body has definitely been experiencing this discomfort for a long time. I was able to detect some clues from the contemptuous sneers of the bosses who were in the White House. I initially felt a blind pride and elation at this change, which, after all, reflected the correctness of our strategy from the side. Over time, this subtle, invisible infiltration made me shudder, not only making the key political operations at the top of a country unrecognizable, but also making the country's emergency response mechanisms extremely vulnerable to paralysis at particular times. The Soviet institutions were the most important part of the Soviet state management system, and their role became even more important under Braginsky's new bosses' administration. In 1990, when the Soviet Union adopted the same "presidential system" as my country, the center of state power was once again transferred from the Supreme Soviet to the President of the Soviet Union. This presidency was adopted by both countries. This presidential presence was portrayed by the media of both countries as an important step in the "de-authorization" process. I can't agree with this kind of propaganda and political propaganda. The president is just a name, and the new ambitious boss has apparently collected all the decisions in his own hands through a more subtle means. Such dirty politician's tricks are for me just pretexts - richly decorated pretexts - that have been used for centuries by both factions to crush each other. I am worried about Braginsky, and I suspect he will hardly be able to recognize this ugly kernel with clarity. Long-standing imperialism and long-standing high concentrations of one-party power have been etched into the land behind Braginsky, just as equality and freedom are etched into this American continent.
The vast, mysterious and infinite possibilities of this northern land is the supreme treasure of God's diversity for mankind, and cannot be desecrated or interfered with in any way. I can see the struggle and confrontation in the House of Representatives as they sit in their seats, either drowsy or disdainful when the opposition speaks, and then stand up when it's their turn to speak and throw out a set of seemingly esoteric theories and data, and speak with great passion. In essence, these clowns and the Mississippi River sunrise, only this fixed routine, but you can never say that every day the sunrise is the same, or the government officials in St. Louis will jump up excitedly, red neck, shouting and those clowns do not differ from the doctrine and data. I can read all this, but I have no right to make changes - I am just a speaker and executor who follows the orders of my superiors. Braginsky should have been more repressed than I. He had sharper observations than I. His beloved Russia was a war-torn land, where strong monarchs kept the darkness out of Moscow. However, in the air of seeming stability for several years, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR has become weak, and on the contrary, it is the efficiency of the actions of the Soviet of the Russian Federation that stands out. The White House, where the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation is located, has a tendency to become a political center that rivals the Kremlin, where the State Emergency Committee is located. This is a perverse product of our brutal intervention, where the fate of a land cannot be decided by the people who have been living on it for generations, but only by a few powerful people who know very little about it. What is even more frightening is that when a real crisis arises, these powerful people, out of a weak sense of national identity, will only protect themselves and run away.
This is the reason why Mr. Braginsky's recent situation has improved somewhat these days. The people are not stupid, they will make a choice; the Soviet still exists and the people will choose the people who will represent them in the Soviet. It is a great system, birthed by the brave and resourceful people of this land. Whether this was a coup d'état as they claimed or a self-directed one or, as I believe, a last cry before falling into the abyss, the Supreme Soviet should have had the strength to deal with all the problems that might have arisen, but the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union did not fulfill its mandate and was largely neutral on the matter. In contrast, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation was active and supported every decree issued by the leadership of the Russian Federation. The different behavior of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Supreme Soviet of some republics reflects the decline of the central power of the USSR and the increase of the power of some republics, which to a large extent affects the development of events in the USSR and, to a certain extent, the fate of the land on which Braginsky rests.
We are engaged in an unprecedented conspiracy that contends against one of the largest empires. We are behaving like colonists with blood on their blades, using good political and cultural propaganda, and we are winning this invasion in a silent and overwhelming way. I hope that everything will not turn out as I think it will, and that this will be a no-win contest for both sides. Even if Braginsky can fall into darkness as we expect, then the centuries-old celebrity sentiments of the people of that land will be directed at us, the originators. Then, what falls on our land, whether it is a nuclear warhead or a dove of peace, will be the heavenly punishment for our sinful and inhumane, despicable and lowly behavior.
Yours,
Alfred
25/8/1991
Appendix:
1)Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR:On some measures to restore constitutional order in the country
(August 21, 1991)
On urgent measures for the restoration of constitutional order in the country
Adopts the Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR:
Considering that the de facto deprivation of the constitutional duties of the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, and their transfer to the Vice that the de facto deprivation of the constitutional duties of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and their transfer to the Vice-President is illegal.
1. To demand that Vice-President Yanayev of the USSR immediately revoke his orders, as well as the orders based on them, which have not been in force since the date of their signing.
2. demands that Vice President Yanayev of the USSR immediately revoke his orders and the resolution on the imposition of the state of emergency based on these orders, which have no legal force since the date of their signing.
3. to refer the proposal to set up a delegation to investigate the process of activities of those primarily responsible for undermining the Constitution of the USSR.
The proposal to set up a delegation to investigate the activities of those primarily responsible for the destruction of the Constitution of the USSR was referred to a non-regular session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for examination.
Chairman of the Union House [of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR] I. Д. Laptev
2)The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt made by communist hard-liners of the Soviet Union to take control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the party. The coup leaders consisted of top military and civilian officials who formed the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). They were hard-line opponents of Gorbachev's reform program, angry at the loss of control over Eastern European states, and fearful of the new union treaty that was about to be signed. The treaty decentralized much of the central government's power to the 15 republics. The hard-liners were very poorly organized. They met defeat by a short but effective campaign of civil resistance, mainly in Moscow, led by Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who had been both an ally and critic of Gorbachev. The coup collapsed in only two days and Gorbachev returned to office, while all the plotters lost office. Yeltsin became the dominant leader and Gorbachev lost much of his influence. The failed coup led to both the immediate collapse of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the USSR four months later.
Following the capitulation of the GKChP, popularly referred to as the "Gang of Eight", both the Supreme Court of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev described their actions as a coup attempt.
