"Support for the Junta on behalf of the Crimeans": Interviews with Deputies

From the personal archive of Yaroslav Kendzor.

August 24, 1991, the sidelines of the Verkhovna Rada, Kyiv.

On the video: Yaroslav Kendzor interviews people's deputies: Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Crimean ASSR Mykola Bagrov, asks about his personal support for the junta and support for the junta on behalf of the Crimeans, his assessment of the events of the anti-state coup; Vyacheslav Chornovil asks Bagrov what he tried to do as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea; a blitz interview of deputies-officers, Yaroslav Kendzor expresses sympathy that their leader turned out to be a state criminal, asks what their relationship was to the coup, what was their position during the days of the coup, whether they will vote for the independence of Ukraine, how they feel about the creation of the Ukrainian army; response from the head of the Military Academy in Kyiv, People's Deputy of the Ukrainian SSR Borys Dukhov; blitz interview of the People's Deputy from Western Donbass Volodymyr Pykhtin, he answers that he has been taking democratic positions for more than a year, wrote a statement about leaving the Communist Party, voices the address of Bashkirov Mikhail, People's Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the Mykolaiv Executive Committee; question about how he perceived the news of the coup, whether he has changed his opinion about him (Kendzyor) and his statement that the Communist Party is a fascist party; interview of the People's Deputy Vasyl Lisovenko, Kendzyor asks whether he agrees that he, as a representative of the Communist Party and a communist leader, is also a rebel, whether Gurenko is involved in the coup d'état; Lisovenko's answer; People's Deputies Mikhail Potebenko and Oleksiy Savvin (Metropolitan Agafangel) escaped from Kendzyor's questions.