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Moscow, USSR. President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev (C, front) speaks at a memorial rally on Manezhnaya Square, held in honour of three men Vladimir Usov, Ilya Krichevsky and Dmitry Komar, who died in the Chaikovsky Tunnel on August 21, 1991. They were killed during a clash between defenders of the RSFSR House of Soviets and a column of armoured vehicles from the Taman Division of the Soviet Army, which acted under orders from the military commandant of Moscow, an official appointed by the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). Representatives of the highest state bodies headed by Vice President of the USSR Gennady Yanayev removed the president of the USSR from power and declared a state of emergency in the country in order to 32404359

Moscow, USSR. President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev (C, front) speaks at a memorial rally on Manezhnaya Square, held in honour of three men Vladimir Usov, Ilya Krichevsky and Dmitry Komar, who died in the Chaikovsky Tunnel on August 21, 1991. They were killed during a clash between defenders of the RSFSR House of Soviets and a column of armoured vehicles from the Taman Division of the Soviet Army, which acted under orders from the military commandant of Moscow, an official appointed by the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). Representatives of the highest state bodies headed by Vice President of the USSR Gennady Yanayev removed the president of the USSR from power and declared a state of emergency in the country in order to 32404359

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Moscow, USSR. President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev (C, front) speaks at a memorial rally on Manezhnaya Square, held in honour of three men Vladimir Usov, Ilya Krichevsky and Dmitry Komar, who died in the Chaikovsky Tunnel on August 21, 1991. They were killed during a clash between defenders of the RSFSR House of Soviets and a column of armoured vehicles from the Taman Division of the Soviet Army, which acted under orders from the military commandant of Moscow, an official appointed by the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). Representatives of the highest state bodies headed by Vice President of the USSR Gennady Yanayev removed the president of the USSR from power and declared a state of emergency in the country in order to 32404359

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