On this day in 1991, Red Army hardliners arrest Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and seize Moscow in a bid to end the Perestroika and Glasnost reforms. Although the coup fails, it hastens the collapse of the USSR. pic.twitter.com/n86tspNTyb
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