Also apparently Noam Chomsky, the dude who praised the collapse of the USSR, is “an appeaser of the soviets”. Straight up mccarthyism. Azov Something is 100% a reaganite. I have 0 doubts, when the revolution triumphs Adam Something gets the wall immediately.
I am afraid that by the time the August coup took place, it was already too late to stop the process of destruction of the USSR.
The seeds of nationalism have already sprung up, since the republics were already beginning to rebel, the Baltic States are an example of this. And the proto-capitalists have already flooded power, both in the republics and in the RSFSR, so even if a miracle happened and the GKCHP could had managed to retain power, the government elites simply would not let them hold out until the GKCHP took measures to, say, purge the party of pests and traitors.
Most likely, all that the putschists could achieve was a postponement of the fall of the USSR.
I dont think so. If the GKCHP had taken power and had the military on their side, they would have definetely been able to stamp out all the traitors. Sure maybe a short civil war would have happened, but with the powerful soviet military on their side they would have won no doubt. The problem was that liberal infiltration of the state caused the coup to not be successful.