The Soviet Coup – 20 Years Later
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Twenty years ago, residents of Moscow awoke to the sound of tanks in the streets. There was a coup in the USSR. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was on vacation in the Crimea, had been put under house arrest by members of his own government. Just about everyone in the former Soviet Union remembers where they were on August 19, l991.
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