Thursday, 18 August 2011

How Boris Yeltsin defeated 1991 Communist coup

MOSCOW — No picture better tells the story of Russia's failed 1991 coup than that of a fist-pumping Boris Yeltsin defying Communist hard-liners from the top of a tank. Those who were by Yeltsin's side describe his decision 20 years ago Friday to climb onto the tank as a stroke of political ...

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