“Dad, wake up! There’s been a coup!” a girl shouted as she rushed into her father’s room. Her father, still half asleep, mumbled: “That’s illegal.”
When reading this exchange, one might immediately think of the recent arrests of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli in China. However, this scene did not take place in China, but in the Soviet Union — the “big brother” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The coup in question was the August 19 coup in the Soviet Union, which directly precipitated the collapse of the Communist regime. The father and daughter were none other than Boris Yeltsin and his daughter, Tatyana.
General Flynn, a heavyweight figure in the U.S. intelligence community, has described the arrests of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli as a “coup within the CCP.” Judging from current developments, although the Xi Jinping administration announced the dismissal of Zhang and Liu with unusual speed, the military’s response suggests that the situation is far from resolved.
It is well known that Xi Jinping’s greatest fear is repeating the Soviet Union’s fate. Yet the coup he has personally orchestrated may be moving in precisely the direction he fears most. Rather than preventing collapse, it could ultimately evolve into another version of the August 19 coup in the Soviet Union — one that once again leads to the downfall of a Communist regime.
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