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Article: 3 Years Later, Russians Revising View of Coup Plotters
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- The Washington Post
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- August 21, 1994
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They call each other "comrade."
They think the Soviet Union's glory days were before Mikhail
Gorbachev came to power. And they swear that the failed 1991 coup
attempt against Gorbachev, which led a few months later to the
Soviet Union's disappearance, was not a bungling grab for power but
a heroic last-ditch effort to keep the proud nation whole.
The hard-liners who rue the collapse of the old order were a
spent force after 1991, and for a long time they kept their heads
down and their mouths shut, stunned and silenced by events in the
New Russia.
Now, three years after the Aug. 19-21 coup attempt that
heralded the end of an epoch, the hard-liners are out of jail, out
on the streets ...