Yuri Chekalin20.08.2026
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On August 19, 1991, an event began that would enter history under a dry bureaucratic acronym: the GKChP — the State Committee on the State of Emergency. Thirty-five years later, it is easy to look back and see those events as inevitable. The Soviet Union, it seems, was already doomed; the August coup merely added […]
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