(July 14), Xinwei, August 23, 1991, the Soviet Union adopted a series of measures against the CPSU.

1991 8, 23, Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin issued a command to stop the Russian Federation Communist Party activities and limit the activities of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This is after he participated in a meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and representatives of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, announced that he had signed the command, "to stop the activities of the Russian Communist Party, until the judicial authorities to investigate the situation of the Russian Communist Party to participate in the recent event & rdquo ;. (L $ j��.c��)
Yeltsin also issued an order, the decision of the Soviet armed forces in the territory of Russia, the Soviet Union, the National Security Council and the Department of the Interior agencies and military academies in the revocation of the military and political institutions, and to prohibit the presence of political parties and organizations. (L $ dj��.����T)
command date of the CPSU Central Committee building is located in the center of Moscow Old Square has been sealed. Building positive hung up before the October Revolution in Russia's red, white and blue tricolor. The red flag was ripped off the top of the building. Yeltsin has previously announced, the red, white and blue tricolor from the date of the Russian flag. CPSU Moscow Municipal Building adjacent to the CPSU Central Committee building has been sealed.
Yeltsin also issued an order to suspend the publication of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda, the property to be transferred to the Russian state organs. Was ordered to cease publication "Soviet Russia", "workers in the Tribune (�Ө�d��y����h�� $ �Ө�ry.c��m) the Moscow Pravda and Lenin zname" newspaper. command
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Dzerzhinsky statue in front of the building has been demolished. In Revolution Square, the statue of Sverdlov also defaced. (The history TodayOnHistory.com) Dzerzhinsky and Sverdlov were the leader of the October Revolution. In addition, the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution Monument in Ma Nieshen square had been removed.
According to reports, some other republics in the Soviet Union also made a decision to restrict and prohibit the activities of the local Communist. Lithuanian Parliament 23 prohibit the activities of the Lithuanian Communist Party and the confiscation of their property. The Lithuanian authorities ordered the arrest of Li Total leaders. The same day, the Latvian Parliament announced that the Latvian Communist Party, "illegal", and confiscation of all his property, and instructed the Republic Procuratorate pull total public officials to bring criminal proceedings, pull the total of the CPC Central Committee Building has been the Republic Ministry of the Interior troops occupied. Issued a "non-party" so that the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, prohibiting Communist Party activities in state agencies and enterprises. Tajik President of the Republic announced that the law enforcement agencies of the Republic of the implementation of the "non-party". In addition, the central building of the Kyrgyz Communist Party also were confiscated on June 23.
According to another report, the Bureau of the CPSU Central Commission said in a statement said that the Bureau has made former national emergency committee members expelled from the party's decision. The statement also said that "set off protest in many parts of the anti-communist hysteria".