The August Putsch of 1991 was set up by Mihail Gorbaciov – Grigore Eremei. Info-Prim Neo news story of 18 August 2006

The coupe d’etat on August 19, 1991 was set up by Mihail Gorbaciov himself, who had an authority crisis and was not able to lead the country after perestroika and glasnosti, Grigore Eremei, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova told Info-Prim Neo. According to Mr. Eremei, Gorbaciov acknowledged the crisis of the society and of the system, but his biggest problem was the totally wrong vision over the economic and spiritual reality of the whole geopolitical space covered by USSR. The cited source says that Gorbaciov was hoping to come to Moscow as a hero after the coup d’etat, but the following events compromised its authority for good, so that no union structure ever listened to his command. This way, Mr. Eremei says, that the collapse of this regime had a logical and legitimate end. A regime which came to power through a coupe d’etat in 1917, lost the power through a coup d’etat, said the source. Referring to those 3 days in August 1991 when USSR was headed by the “putschist” committee – GKCP, Grigore Eremei says that Moldova’s leadership was the only one to condemn the putsch and disobey their demands. “The putsch was benefic for those who wanted presidents as Eltin, Snegur, Aliev, Nazarbaev”, Mr. Eremei said. The cited source says that Moldova was ready to obtain independence, regardless the coup d’etat organized by GKCP. “At that time, there wasn’t a single Moldovan who would not dream about a mouth of fresh air”. Those who led Moldova over the past 15 years fought more for their own independence, so that they would not be controlled by anyone including the people, so that they could do everything they want and elude responsibilities. “None of the presidents of the Republic of Moldova, since the Independence Declaration until now fulfilled his electoral promises”, Eremia concluded. The August putsch of 1991 from Moscow happened a day before the soviet republics had to sign a new union treaty, which would have made them independent countries in a federation with a president, common foreign policies and army.