ITAR-TASS
01 January, 1991
Shaken, but not (yet) defeated. President Gorbachev and his family leave the plane that has flown them back to Moscow from the Crimea. What should have been a holiday turned into a nightmare when they became hostages as eight hard line communists made their bid for power.
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