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    1962Cuban Missile Crisis Shared thread 1991Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union Shared thread 1962Vasily Arkhipov Shared thread 1991Belavezha Accords Shared thread 1922Creation of the Soviet Union Shared thread 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union Shared thread

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    August 19, 1991

    1991 Soviet coup attempt

    Soviet television replaced ordinary programming with repeated performances of Swan Lake while announcing that Gorbachev was supposedly ill.

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