Name: The Coup That Killed The U.S.S.R.
Uploaded: 2021-08-16 10:13:00Z
Duration: 4 min 43 s
Channel: Ivan Gutterman
Description: In August 1991, a group of Soviet hard-liners locked Mikhail Gorbachev up in his Crimean dacha and tried to keep the U.S.S.R. together by force. Facing massive protests, they gave up just three days after taking power, when the first civilian blood was spilled in Moscow.

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