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A crowd gathers around a personnel carrier as some people climb aboard the vehicle and try to block its advance near Red Square in downtown Moscow, Russia, on August 19, 1991. The August 1991 coup that briefly ousted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapsed in just three days, precipitating the breakup of the Soviet Union that plotters said they were trying to prevent. Former Soviet leader Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (Photo by Boris Yurchenko/AP Photo/File)
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