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U.S. Diplomat Burns: Fall Of Soviet Union 'Unimaginable' Until August 1991 Coup


U.S. Diplomat Burns: Fall Of Soviet Union 'Unimaginable' Until August 1991 Coup
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Nicholas Burns, a former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, spoke to RFE/RL's Russian Service about the attempted August 1991 coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the dissolution of the Soviet Union by the year's end.

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