On August 19, 1991, the world held its breath as hundreds of tanks and other armoured vehicles rolled into Moscow in a massive show of force....
Presenters read out a terse statement saying the president was unfit to govern for health reasons....
But for the coup's plotters, the document sealed its demise. Memories came flooding back, of brutal repressions in previous decades when Soviet bloc countries dared to defy Moscow: Hungary in 1956, Prague in 1968....
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