So long scumbag
Posted by MK on November 25, 2007
SMH – Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former KGB chief who spearheaded a failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, has died aged 83. Kryuchkov owed his swift career rise to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. He worked alongside Andropov when he served as the Soviet ambassador to Hungary and oversaw a brutal suppression of anti-Communist uprising in Budapest in 1956. When Andropov became KGB chief in 1967 he took Kryuchkov along and helped him rise through the ranks.
In 1974, Kryuchkov was named chief of the KGB’s First Main Directorate in charge of spying abroad. In 1988, Gorbachev appointed Kryuchkov as KGB chief. In August 1991, Kryuchkov joined other hard-line members of the Communist Party leadership who ousted Gorbachev and declared a nationwide state of emergency in an attempt to roll back liberal reforms. The coup collapsed after three days, and helped precipitate the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
Time to meet your maker, perhaps he will show you the mercy you and your ilk denied to your countrymen, if not say hi to the father of lies for us won’t you. Yeah, funny thing about him too, he doesn’t need you to believe in him either.
