A Conspiracy Theory About the 1991 August Coup Gets More Interesting

On 19 August 2025, the 24th anniversary of the 1991 August Coup, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda ran an article New Twist in the GKChP case: Kryuchkov was in collusion with Yeltsin, planning to make him president of the USSR (Новый поворот в деле ГКЧП: Крючков был в сговоре с Ельциным, собираясь сделать его президентом СССР). [ ]