“I happened to witness an impartial conversation.
I have never seen this person anywhere else.
Solid, to match Yeltsin, tall.
And he says to Yeltsin: “Well, Boris Nikolayevich, Rutskoi has fulfilled his function, you won the elections, you won the Emergency Committee, you need to think about how to relieve him of his post of vice president.
You do not need him, he will interfere with you with his character, abilities, behavior, ”said Rutskoi.
According to him, this happened literally a week and a half after the Emergency Committee was stopped.
He added that the man "had an accent, it was a foreigner."
Earlier, Rutskoi, within the framework of the RT project "Unforgotten Stories", recalled how he came to power after serving in the armed forces, how he ended up in the center of the country's political life and how the first and last vice presidency in Russia ended.
According to him, being the chairman of the committee of the Supreme Soviet and a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, he took a pragmatic and active position.
Rutskoi expressed the opinion that, apparently, that is why Yeltsin, the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, drew attention to him and offered to run with him for vice president.
Russian politicians and members of the public who took part in the events of 1991 or became their eyewitnesses also shared with RT their memories of the March referendum on the future of the Soviet Union and thoughts about why the results of the popular expression of will could not be put into practice.