The bullet went to the sky

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The bullet went to the sky


In 1990, 7 in November (25 years ago), an assassination attempt was made on the last USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. Alexander Shmonov, a resident of the Leningrad region, tried to live for the life of the head of state. Historians are still wondering whether the attempt was real. Mikhail Sergeyevich himself in one of the interviews already in our time said that the attempt was more likely a dramatization in order to intimidate him.

Shot Shmonov on Red Square during the last in stories country demonstrations in honor of the 73-th anniversary of the October Revolution. Shmonov was convinced that Gorbachev was responsible for the death of people in Tbilisi in April 1989 of the year and in Baku in January of 1990. But the gunman didn’t work and the unarmed police officer neutralized this man. By profession he was a fitter, he worked at a factory in Kolpino and lived with his family in a hostel. In any case, the terrorist in it, none of the friends and especially the security services could not make out.

True, a year before the shooting in Red Square, he went to the November demonstration in Kolpino with a self-made poster "Direct popular elections of the head of state on an alternative basis!". And six months before the arrest, he sent a letter to the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU demanding a referendum on direct elections, a market economy and a multiparty system. Then he printed and posted leaflets with the words: "Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to kill the leaders of the USSR!"

Immediately before the assassination attempt, Shmonov quit his job, bought a gun and made an edge of it. And in the capital he went to Red Square with a column of demonstrators.

Shoot began when the stand was about 50 meters. Shot twice and missed. The police officer managed to grab hold of the barrel and lift it, so that the next bullet went to the side.

Ulik against Shmonova enough. Besides weapons in his pocket he had a newspaper clipping with a schedule of movement of the secretary general. But Shmonov himself did not deny guilt. It turned out that he was still in a psychiatric hospital in the seventies, but by chance he was not registered later.

One year after the failed assassination attempt, the Moscow City Court recognized Shmonov as mentally ill and sent him to a special hospital. There he spent five years.

Coming out of the hospital, Shmonov wrote and published a brochure "How and why I shot the leader of the totalitarian state M. Gorbachev." And a year later he tried to run for deputies in St. Petersburg, but the election commission was eliminated because of strange signatures in support of the candidate candidate.
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  1. +15
    13 November 2015 09: 21
    It’s a pity! It’s a pity that the dude did not grow together .....
    If Vladimir Semenovich is slightly corrected, then:

    "If not for the past, - I would have walked then
    Also a hero ...! "
    laughing
    1. +6
      13 November 2015 09: 37
      if I had the opportunity, I would have named a street or even a square in honor of Alexander Shmonov ... sorry he didn’t get there. crying
      1. +2
        13 November 2015 10: 06
        No, well, the idea with the tagged one was sensible, but he himself was clearly not in his right mind .... So you went too far from the street. Good day. hi
        1. 0
          13 November 2015 10: 43
          Actually about the subject, a very talking video about how it was in 1991 ...
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        3. +2
          13 November 2015 17: 18
          No, well, the idea with the tagged one was sensible, but he himself was clearly not in his right mind ....
          - Sashka

          This crazy man, Shmonov, didn’t shoot at Gorbachev, he shot at the USSR, dissatisfied with his sick mental imagination, the ordinary Soviet life, in which he had to work in order to win honor and respect in society.
          This is the main thing that none of those discussing and the author of the article noticed.
          There were many such sick people, whose place in the psychiatric hospital, in the USSR, and interestingly for some reason, quite healthy people listened to them.

          But Gorbachev had to be removed from the leadership, in the very first years of his reign, as soon as he began a course on betrayal of the USSR.
          And in the 90th year this Judas was already written off a political figure, moreover, written off by his true masters from the USA, who made another bet on his other puppet Yeltsin.
      2. +3
        13 November 2015 10: 40
        Of course, it’s bad for people to wish evil, but because of this ... they still die a million a year ...
        1. +2
          13 November 2015 11: 16
          Quote: sasha 19871987
          Of course, people want evil

          So then people ..
    2. +5
      13 November 2015 09: 58
      I will not be original, but it’s a pity that they did not fail.
    3. +2
      13 November 2015 10: 14
      Quote: Finches
      If it weren’t for, then I would have walked
      Also a hero ...! "

      He is the real hero. To whom it is weak to grumble on Humpback? The whole country dreamed that he got, rooting for him). Well missed, with whom does not happen sad
    4. +1
      13 November 2015 21: 57
      As in Trofim's song: "It's a pity Fani Kaplan missed"))))
      1. -1
        13 November 2015 22: 23
        But with Fani Kaplan and Trofim, and you got excited ....!
        1. +1
          13 November 2015 22: 47
          Quote: Finches
          But with Fani Kaplan and Trofim, and you got excited ....!

          no, I'm quite meaningful ..
  2. +8
    13 November 2015 09: 24
    What is so unsuccessful then ...
    And then how could it turn out good
    1. +5
      13 November 2015 09: 34
      Quote: Vladimir
      What is so unsuccessful then ...


      But for us, the whole period from the end of 80x, right up to the beginning of 2000x, evolved, to put it mildly (well, oooh-h-mu softly), unsuccessfully ...
  3. +1
    13 November 2015 09: 33
    Good time of the day Dear!
    Gliadia, for which he created 4, this is the agent with the Great Country, sometimes
    There is no time machine.
    4 that would be the case 4 rewind and make corrections, 4 would have found a bullet
    your addressee!
    In this case, this is a renegade !!!.
    1. 0
      13 November 2015 09: 40
      Quote: marinier
      Good time of the day Dear!
      Gliadia, for which he created 4, this is the agent with the Great Country, sometimes
      There is no time machine.
      4 that would be the case 4 rewind and make corrections, 4 would have found a bullet
      your addressee!
      In this case, this is a renegade !!!.

      smile Entoni, why are you so worried? wink Gorbachov you have a hero and not a traitor!
      1. +1
        13 November 2015 10: 00
        Quote: Andrey Yurievich
        Entoni, why are you so worried? Gorbachov you have a hero and not a traitor!

        Logically, the Marine guarding the Netherlands mission for such statements, and in general, for the presence at the VO, should be "hooked", "interested guys". Moreover, from our side ...

        Either, "To the madness of the brave, we sing a song", or Entoni, some banal Anton, vytryvshis, mowing under a foreigner, and fooling us.
        1. -1
          13 November 2015 10: 56
          Quote: Good Me
          Either, "To the madness of the brave, we sing a song", or Entoni, some banal Anton, vytryvshis, mowing under a foreigner, and fooling us.

          laughing with a broken-down keyboard? Apparently the letters H, L, I, F, and some others do not plow him ... But how else to understand the respected
          1. +1
            13 November 2015 11: 29
            Quote: Corsair
            laughing with a broken-down keyboard?


            Apparently, with a broken head ...

            That's what you want, think, write, but I do not get the feeling that it is someone who is quite RUSSIAN, so we are "bred" ...

            Maybe there is someone on the site who is more or less tolerable in Dutch to talk to the "Marine from the Netherlands" directly, to dispel doubts and suspicions?

            If it is confirmed that he really is who he claims to be, I will be the first to publicly apologize ...
  4. +2
    13 November 2015 09: 33
    Any terrorism is an impasse branch of development!
    1. +5
      13 November 2015 09: 43
      I agree, but I would like to add excerpts and accuracy to Shmonov.
    2. +1
      13 November 2015 09: 49
      Quote: vladnn2015
      Any terrorism is an impasse branch of development!

      For a terrorist individually, terrorism in general, a state practicing terrorism, YES ...

      But for the USSR, that shot of a lone terrorist could set a different development vector. And who knows where we would be now, if a hunchback was killed, then ...
  5. +3
    13 November 2015 09: 37
    I don’t even want to joke.
  6. +3
    13 November 2015 09: 44
    Narodovolets! you do not know how not to start, otherwise such a thing has messed up!
  7. +4
    13 November 2015 09: 45
    At 90m it was already late. 5 years to rewind.
    1. +1
      13 November 2015 10: 21
      Quote: Ecilop
      At 90m it was already late. 5 years to rewind.

      It was just right. There was both the KGD and the army of the USSR - forces capable of putting a lock in the country and planting traitors.
  8. +1
    13 November 2015 09: 53
    Last president, last secretary general, last ... here you can insert any word that does not have a positive characteristic.
    A man who betrayed everything and everyone.
  9. -2
    13 November 2015 09: 55
    Do not exaggerate the role of personality in history. Everything went to the collapse and the advent of the golden calf. The elite mutated, so the death of Gorbachev could not affect the course of history.
  10. +1
    13 November 2015 09: 56
    Yeah! Then we were totally unlucky in anything ... What a "witchcraft"! It looks like we are not adapted to such actions. feel
  11. +1
    13 November 2015 09: 57
    It’s a pity that missed, the air would be cleaner. For this fascist henchman, the land has been crying for a long time!
    1. 0
      13 November 2015 10: 32
      Quote: njvlin
      It’s a pity that missed, the air would be cleaner. For this fascist henchman, the land has been crying for a long time!

      It will bend, cremate, shoot ashes from a cannon, as was the case in the old days in Russia with renegades and impostors.

      He has nothing to lay in the ground, which he sold ...
  12. +1
    13 November 2015 09: 58
    Yes breshut, the sho cop did not let you hit! SHOOT !!! Then people from his hands tore a sawn-off shotgun: "Give it to me! .. Give it to me, you bastard !!" .. Well, how can I get here, and even from 50 meters ?!
  13. +2
    13 November 2015 10: 00
    It is a pity that it did not grow together. But the hero from the asshole "terrorist" is not a trace. A whimsical fanatic, which by the way is typical for carriers of a liberoid idea. And he did not want to bang him at all for the deeds that the failed deceased had committed. Although it would be symbolic - the law of denial of negation in action laughing
  14. +1
    13 November 2015 10: 01
    Quote: Andrey Yurievich
    Quote: marinier
    Good time of the day Dear!
    Gliadia, for which he created 4, this is the agent with the Great Country, sometimes
    There is no time machine.
    4 that would be the case 4 rewind and make corrections, 4 would have found a bullet
    your addressee!
    In this case, this is a renegade !!!.

    smile Entoni, why are you so worried? wink Gorbachov you have a hero and not a traitor!


    In addition, there are 13 Monarchies in Geyrop, including the Order of Malta. Who is stopping you from shooting your monarchs and politicians! As the mattress makers say, "We know that he (Gorbachev) is a scoundrel, but this is our scoundrel!" and don’t get into our politics! How are you, dear, Entoni, get busy with your bedding commission on the "Malaysian" Boeing "or the moronic politicians who support sanctions against Russia! And shove your mindless opinions into the PDO == poo!
  15. +2
    13 November 2015 10: 01
    By himself, Gorbachev did not grow up to be a head of state, and even such as the USSR, he still does not understand who he really is, a Kremlin dreamer, but in his mind - an assistant to a combine operator. I wanted to change the horse without getting off it. Now it is even difficult to determine which of the two is "more worthy" Yeltsin or Gorbachev, but evil and misfortune, and at the same time, opportunities brought many millions of people. Well, as they say - time will put everything in its place. There would be another person who would explain all this to him, otherwise he is still a "hero".
  16. 0
    13 November 2015 10: 30
    By that time, his death would have decided nothing. The country has been ruined over the previous five years!
  17. +1
    13 November 2015 10: 37
    Quote: Johnny51
    Yes breshut, the sho cop did not let you hit! SHOOT !!! Then people from his hands tore a sawn-off shotgun: "Give it to me! .. Give it to me, you bastard !!" .. Well, how can I get here, and even from 50 meters ?!

    Actually, 50 meters for a hunter with a smoothbore is quite working, but there was a sawn-off shotgun. So, he had practically no chance to get there, but for sure.
  18. 0
    13 November 2015 10: 52
    Was Yeltsin already on the way? Was there a person in the circle who was able to lead the country in a different way?
    It is a pity for the "terrorist." A man with a restless soul did not understand that he was fighting not with a man, but with a process from across the ocean.
  19. -2
    13 November 2015 11: 18
    The bullet went to the sky.


    Nothing, has already passed the top point and is coming back :)
  20. +1
    13 November 2015 11: 23
    In the seventies and eighties, it was not possible for an outsider to get into the column of demonstrators. Long before a stranger approached Red Square, i.e. a person not previously declared and not included in the list of participants in the demonstration will be definitely identified and taken out of the column.
    And here an outsider, even with a sawed-off shotgun, hung himself in a column, and even in that column, which runs fifty meters from the mausoleum tribune, i.e. the left-flank column, which is controlled more than other columns by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB.
    True, this was the case in the seventies and eighties, which I myself observed. In the nineties, one could already fit into the column, as there were more “democracies”.
    All this was most likely a staged show with an attempt on the "humpbacked".
    1. 0
      13 November 2015 11: 44
      Wrong, wrote "left-flank column", but correctly "right-flank column"
  21. cap
    +1
    13 November 2015 11: 55
    The figure of Gorbachev is certainly ambiguous, contradictory in words and deeds.
    His only "merit" is that he surrendered the USSR without a fight, that is, he betrayed the People and the Party he served.
    You won't envy him. The sick old man. Let him die in peace in his new homeland. Let him be buried there. In Russia they will definitely not be buried. Most likely they will be cremated. In our memory, he will remain as "dear Mikhail Sergeevich." To whom and how dear he is, let everyone decide for himself. I am convinced that the Nobel medal, as a man of honor, will bequeath to Putin V.V.
  22. 0
    13 November 2015 12: 35
    Quote: Papapg
    By himself, Gorbachev did not grow up to be a head of state, and even such as the USSR, he still does not understand who he really is, a Kremlin dreamer, but in his mind - an assistant to a combine operator. I wanted to change the horse without getting off it. Now it is even difficult to determine which of the two is "more worthy" Yeltsin or Gorbachev, but evil and misfortune, and at the same time, opportunities brought many millions of people. Well, as they say - time will put everything in its place. There would be another person who would explain all this to him, otherwise he is still a "hero".

    How grown up! The people always have the leader they deserve. Forgot how everyone was touched, how young, articulate and modern he is? How did the creative intelligentsia thank "for a sip of freedom"? How touched that he in the word "rings" does not stress the first syllable, but the second ?. As it turned out, we don't need an army either, because "new thinking" (with an emphasis on the first syllable)?
    Then the massacre began in all the outskirts, he was their word, word ... Remember how he wrote: "Comrade Lansbergis, I ask you to cancel the acts that do not correspond to the Constitution of the USSR."
    And then they decided to change one father for another and went to defend the "White House". All this happened before my eyes. In August 1991, among my acquaintances, only I did not have a White House defender award. Everyone was proud, and who was a fool, and who was not. And now they refuse to remember it and lower their eyes.
    Of course, I am against terror, but ...
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  24. 0
    13 November 2015 13: 31
    The fact that Alexander Shmonov did not succeed in filling up the "tagged" is regrettable to me - Gorbachev deserved a hole in his head (and not even one), oh, how he deserved it, for everything he did to the country. But the question is, what motives drove Shmonov? Judging by his statements, he is still a noble liberal and "fighter against the totalitarian regime", that is, In fact, Shmonov, with the stupidity characteristic of all liberals, wanted to overwhelm his "fellow in the shop", and even nowhere with useless methods (if it were a rifled sawn-off shotgun and not a smoothbore, it would have hit). Conclusion: whatever the liberal will undertake, everything is very bad! So you shouldn't make a hero out of Alexander Shmonov.
  25. 0
    13 November 2015 13: 46
    No matter what motive the beautiful impulse moves !!! His intuition is not bad. Sorry for the poor accuracy. Yes, even a policeman. There would be a shoulder framed for emphasis.
  26. 0
    13 November 2015 17: 10
    Obviously a sick person, general secretaries are not killed from a sawn-off shotgun. Or a staging, someone
    grabbed a star on the shoulder strap. Yes, no matter with the consent of Gorbi, to raise the rating.
    Who there found out that flew into the sky.
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  28. 0
    13 November 2015 22: 02
    The shot was clearly an act, a manifestation of the position of this individual. It is clear that not a single sane person, from a shotgun of a hunting rifle, who at least once fired from a full version of a hunting weapon at least at bottles or cans, will not shoot a "zakan" at such a distance. Rave!!! And I also liked it ... The actions of the policeman who raised the barrel ... Double Delirium !!!
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