THE RUSSIA DELEGATION
BRINGS MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
HOME TO MOSCOW
THE SOVIET DELEGATION
IS ACED OUT
Russia Vice-President ALEKSANDR RUTSKOI
(center left, with dark hair and moustache) and
Russian Prime Minister IVAN SILAYEV
(center right, with white hair)
at the Congress of People's Deputies of
the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
July 1991
On Wednesday, August 21, 1991, a delegation of Russian leaders including Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi and Prime Minister
Ivan Silayev flew to Foros in the Crimea, where Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev was said to have been held against his will
since Sunday, August 18th. A delegation of Soviet leaders flew in
a separate plane. Gorbachev rejected them as implicated in the
coup against him, and flew back to Moscow with the Russian
delegation instead. His arrival in the early hours of August 22nd
definitively ended the coup, but Gorbachev was soon to find he
had stepped back into a very different political world.
Ivan Silayev flew to Foros in the Crimea, where Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev was said to have been held against his will
since Sunday, August 18th. A delegation of Soviet leaders flew in
a separate plane. Gorbachev rejected them as implicated in the
coup against him, and flew back to Moscow with the Russian
delegation instead. His arrival in the early hours of August 22nd
definitively ended the coup, but Gorbachev was soon to find he
had stepped back into a very different political world.
More to come in RUSSIA REDUX
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