John Major on Soviet coup
- Title
- John Major on Soviet coup
- Genre
- Press conference
- TX Date
- 20 Aug 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:03:38
- Description
- Prime Minister John Major gives a press statement from 10 Downing Street on the coup in the Soviet Union which saw the current regime overthrown, and relays a statement from Russian President Boris Yeltsin who is barricaded inside the Moscow Parliament building with troops advancing on it.
- Contributors
- John Major
- Keywords
- Revolutions; Politics; Armed forces; USSR; Political systems; Political leadership; Political reform; Moscow; Boris Yeltsin; Mikhail Gorbachev
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