The Last Battle For USSR
To preserve the integrity of the Soviet Union and building the constitutional order, in 19 August 1991 by the heads of Government of the USSR was formed The State Committee on the State of Emergency and Mikhail Gorbachev was arrested.
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Famous quotes containing the words the last and/or battle:
“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)