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Monday, August 19, 2013

THE 1991 AUGUST COUP, DAY TWO

THE COUP BECOMES PUBLIC 
THE TANKS ENTER MOSCOW 
BORIS YELTSIN STANDS ON ONE 
August 19, 1991 


DMITRY YAZOV 
SOVIET ARMY MARSHAL 
USSR DEFENSE MINISTER, August 1991 

Photographed in 2005, after his membership in the failed GKChP coup attempt led to eighteen months in prison, and after the Presidential (Putin) award of the Order of Merit, November 2004 

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