Tuesday, August 21, 2007
This Day in the History of Evil Ends
On this day in 1991, the last gasp, hard-line Soviet coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin. This was the coup where all the conspirators kept calling in sick. Thus ended the second to worst lefty totalitarian regime in modern history.
Labels: Fall of Soviet Union