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In this August 19, 1991 file photo, crowds of people surround and climb on tanks which were stopped by the crowd as they drove towards the Red Square area of Moscow, Russia, during a military coup after the announced ousting of Mikhail Gorbachev from power. In these critical days when Muscovites turned out to defend the spirit of democracy that Gorbachev had unleashed, and many Soviet officers defied their orders and sided with the people, ensuring that that the plotters failed. (Photo by Boris Yurchenko/AP Photo)
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