From: (Anonymous) Date: October 29th, 2019 11:00 am (UTC) (Link) Советский Архив - Bukovsky Archive. http://www.bukovsky-archives.net/buk-rus.html



These are the fragment from V. Bukovsky's interview (Warsaw, 1998)



It was the beginning of September, Moscow had not yet rallied after the "putsch", there were still barricades around the "White House" and flowers on the Sadovaya Ring marking the spot where three young men had been killed, when we a television crew, Yakovlev and I drove to the notorious building on the Lubyanka. Everything here was just as it had been in my youth: the "Detsky Mir" (Children's World) shop on the corner and the grim KGB building in the center, opposite the "Dzerzhinsky Square" metro station; only "Iron Felix's" empty pedestal bore witness to recent events. It was unbelievably strange to see that pedestal daubed with graffiti such as "Down with the CPSU!" or the communist hammer and sickle with an equal sign joining it to a Nazi swastika. These were removed every night by someone's caring hands, but reappeared inevitably the next day. So it went on for several weeks, until people tired of the game. And then, a carefully inscribed words in white paint appeared on the clean pedestal: "Forgive us Felix for failing to save you". The chekists got the last word, after all.



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