was Raisa. When the BBC began to report on the race of the two planes to Crimea, Raisa convinced herself that the plotters were coming to get rid of witnesses, including her whole family. She collapsed into the arms of her daughter Irina and son-in-law Anatoly. It was a massive hypertension attack. Unfortunately for Gorbachev, he would lose his beloved wife eight years later; her terminal illness was caused by the shock of 21 August. The Soviet President was determined to get rid of the plotters.112 After assisting his wife into
