Resignation

I did not want to resign as a president but I knew it was a wise choice. I was already losing my popularity, as there was a coup trying to assassinate me. All of my allies have turned on me.  I had to arrest my own men and kill them for treason and dishonesty. They were no longer loyal to me but to a man named Boris Yeltsin. Boris Yeltsin may have plotted the coup himself but I don’t know that. All that I remember is that Yeltsin and I both agreed upon the fact the Soviet Union should have been dissolved. It was the right thing to do, as Russia and communism was slowly deteriorating. All of the satellite nations in the free election had voted for democracy, or their leader was overthrown. The chances for communism to survive evaporated when all of them chose to become democratic. The Soviet Union I knew was disintegrating right before my eyes. The satellite states had all turn communist and the east Germans wanted to be reunited with the west Germans. The Warsaw Pact became nullified when all of this happened and I began to question myself. I questioned myself: was it because I was a president of the Soviet Union so long that they had become tired of me or was it the fact they thought that I was a bad leader. It became inevitable for me to question why my own men would turn on me and plot a coup against me in the crisis I was in as the leader of the Soviet Union. I was upset and in a state of confusion when I resigned and to this day I still question myself if that was the right decision.