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俄罗斯纪念导致苏联解体的91年政变

Source: VOA    2011-08-20  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the failed coup attempt that hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union.
 
On August 19, 1991, a small group Communist hardliners placed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest at his vacation home in the Crimea. Their aim was to block the Kremlin chief's program of broad political and economic reforms, including allowing greater autonomy for the Soviet republics.
 
Within hours, thousands of people gathered around Russian government headquarters in Moscow, where Russian President Boris Yeltsin stood atop a tank to denounce the coup plotters.
 
The coup collapsed three days later and Mr. Gorbachev returned to Moscow.
 
Within weeks, the republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania seceded from the Soviet Union. The entire U.S.S.R. ( - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - ) was dissolved in December, less than 75 years after the Russian Revolution brought the communist state into existence.
 
To this day, Russians remain deeply divided over the Soviet collapse and the economic and political chaos that followed. 


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