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Article: INVESTIGATORS ROOT OUT FALLEN LEADERS OF JUNTA.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 26, 1991
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Byline: Michael Dobbs Washington Post
In the days since their coup collapsed, the eight fallen leaders of the junta have responded with recriminations, self-criticism and, in one case, suicide. Some are behaving, in the phrase of Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin, like "cockroaches in a closed jar."
Some have found the humiliation impossible to bear. Others have analyzed what happened with professional detachment. While some are talking, others have maintained a sullen silence.
When investigators broke into the Moscow apartment of interior minister Boris Pugo on Thursday, they found him lying in a pool of blood. He died in a hospital not long ...