His comments attracted attention. On June 19, 1991, at a press conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, Akhromeyev pointedly pointed out from the beginning that the situation in the Soviet Union in 1941 was somewhat similar to what is happening in 1991. He believed that the country was heading for destruction in 1990. According to him, USSR, which was defended by Soviet soldiers and civilians at the expense of 27 million people, is about to collapse. Hitler's intentions that Hitler's tens of millions of troops failed to achieve, are possible now.