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In 1990, Estonia, [18] Latvia, [19] Lithuania [20] and Armenia [21] had already declared the restoration of their independence from the Soviet Union. In January 1991, a violent attempt to return Lithuania to the Soviet Union by force took place. About a week later, a similar attempt was engineered by local pro-Soviet forces to overthrow Latvian ...
Coup leader Vice-President Gennadi Yanayev returns to the Kremlin August 21, 19:19: U.S. President George H. W. Bush talks with Gorbachev by telephone. August 21, 20:13: Gorbachev is announced to rule the Soviet Union again. August 21, 20:17: Four coup leaders are located at Gorbachev's summer villa in Crimea.
This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states.
The coup leaders also neglected to jam foreign news broadcasts, so many Muscovites watched it unfold live on CNN. Even the isolated Gorbachev was able to stay abreast of developments by tuning into the BBC World Service on a small transistor radio. [124] After three days, on 21 August 1991, the coup collapsed.
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The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, occurring between 19 and 21 August 1991, was an attempt by the SCSE to take control of the country from then President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. The SCSE were hard-line members of the Communist Party ( CPSU ) who were opposed to Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty he had ...
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Latvia faced further attacks of Pro-Soviet forces later in 1991 – on 23 May, when OMON launched attack on five Latvian border posts and during the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, when several strategic objectives guarded during the barricades were seized, with one civilian (driver Raimonds Salmiņš) killed by Soviet forces. The attempted coup ...