Saturday, August 20, 2022

Remembering the day people power succeeded in Moscow

On this day, August 20, 1991 over 100,000 people demonstrated outside the parliament building in Moscow protesting at those supporters who were trying to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.

And on the same day Estonia, one of the Soviet republics declares its independence and breaks its ties with Moscow. 

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