August 19th 1991 — an 8-man junta announced that the head of the Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had been taken ill, and an ‘Emergency Committee’ had taken over running the vast country. The defeat of the putsch opened the road to the collapse of the USSR.
For a solution based on working class independence!
Andre Ferrari, Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil)
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