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Title:USSR: Russian Leader Boris Yeltsin Calls On People To Resist The State Emergency Committee
Date:19th August 1991
Summary:The Russian President Boris Yeltsin climbed on a tank outside his parliament on August 19 and called on supporters to resist the state emergency committee that has taken power from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Earlier the Russian Prime Minister, Ivan Silayev said that the legally elected president had been toppled and the country was now faced with an ultra-right wing reactionary coup.
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Location:USSR CCCP RUSSIA MOSCOW MOSKVA PARLIAMENTS MENYESHE SQUARE
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