

The coup d'état in the USSR, which occurred between August 19 and 21, 1991, was an attack carried out by hard-line members of the Communist Party (CPSU), the KGB and the army to depose Mikhail Gorbachev. The objective was to stop the perestroika reforms and the imminent dissolution of the Soviet Union. Here the coup d'état triumphs and Mikhail ...Read more