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.
Rebuild and escalate the global movement against genocidal war and imperialism
Per-Åke Westerlund, ISA International Political Committee
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