Remembering the 1991 Coup That Failed
Clip: Season 24 Episode 2 | 2m 28s
Russians remember a failed 1991 coup before the fall of the Soviet Union.
Russians remember the mass demonstrations that occurred in 1991 in response to an attempted coup of a group of Soviet hardliners against Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policy.
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Remembering the 1991 Coup That Failed
Clip: Season 24 Episode 2 | 2m 28s
Russians remember the mass demonstrations that occurred in 1991 in response to an attempted coup of a group of Soviet hardliners against Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policy.
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