Putsch birthday

Parties estimated GKChP role in the history on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary on August 19, 1991 the vice-president of the USSR Gennady Ivanovich Yanaev declared inability of the president Mikhail Gorbachev to fulfill duties "on a state of health", introduction of state of emergency "in certain districts of the USSR" and creation of the State committee on state of emergency (GKChP). This date was celebrated by many leaders of the Russian parties, but estimated it differently. For example, Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Liberal Democratic Party of Russia remembered GKChP with nostalgia, and ""A Just Russia" Party — For the truth" decided to use putsch anniversary for an appeal to association of the left forces. In that...