Iak Ukraintsi zruynuvaly imperiiu zla [How Ukrainians Destroyed the Empire of Evil]

At the end of July 1991, in the KGB report, Leonid Kravchuk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR, was informed about the scenario of the possible collapse of the USSR, which was predicted in the USA. The head of the KGB of the USSR, Volodymyr Kryuchkov, will claim that a few years earlier, the communist special services sensed the approach of collapse. What happened behind the scenes of the August putsch, which made the collapse of the USSR quick and irreversible? How did it happen that out of the four scenarios of the development of events described in the CIA forecast, the Ukrainians chose the most radical - ‘Disintegration’?