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The August Coup: The Soviet Plan to Overthrow Gorbachev
In 1991, tanks rolled down the streets of Moscow. This was the August coup, an attempt by the remaining Soviet hardliners to bring down Mikhail Gorbachev.
On the hot summer morning of the 19th of August, the citizens of Russia woke up to find every TV channel broadcasting a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. This unseasonal broadcast was then drowned by the very real noise of tanks thundering down the wide Moscow streets. Was WWIII finally breaking out? What was happening? This was the August coup, the attempt of certain hardliners to keep the Soviet Union alive and seize power from Mikhail Gorbachev...
https://www.thecollector.com/august-coup-soviet-union/
In 1991, tanks rolled down the streets of Moscow. This was the August coup, an attempt by the remaining Soviet hardliners to bring down Mikhail Gorbachev.
On the hot summer morning of the 19th of August, the citizens of Russia woke up to find every TV channel broadcasting a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. This unseasonal broadcast was then drowned by the very real noise of tanks thundering down the wide Moscow streets. Was WWIII finally breaking out? What was happening? This was the August coup, the attempt of certain hardliners to keep the Soviet Union alive and seize power from Mikhail Gorbachev...
https://www.thecollector.com/august-coup-soviet-union/
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