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Oberon

08-18-11, 10:10 AM

New light shed on the events of 19th August 1991

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14560280

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIczK4rue0g

It could very well have gone a very different way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO-BLggwqRU

Randomizer

08-18-11, 10:30 AM

Basically the same topic but with a different point of view. From Foreign Policy magazine a couple of months ago: Everything You Think You Know about the Collapse of the Soviet Union is Wrong.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/20/everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_o f_the_soviet_union_is_wrong?page=0,0