the omon did not act on their own - after the preses nams was seized the omon claimed that high officials of the soviet government - boris pugo and mikhail gorbachev knew about the attack, however, both denied their involvement and the supreme council blamed the communist party of latvia. in december before the events, the popular front, in its instructions for x hour, asserted that a coup was planned by the "soyuz" group of the supreme soviet of the ussr mps.