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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“The Germans are always too late. They are late, like music, which is always the last of the arts to express a world condition,—when that world condition is already in its final stages. They are abstract and mystical.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array through the always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)