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Hardline members of the Communist Party see the Soviet system crumbling The “Gang of Eight” (or the “State Committee on the State Emergency”) takes Mikhail Gorbachev hostage while at his vacation home Attempts to consolidate power in their hands fails after 3 days
Gorbachev will be released, but the Soviet Union cannot win back support. National governments begin to take control of the military and infrastructure Gorbachev resigns on December 25, 1991 and the Soviet Union officially dissolves the next day.
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Page 14 and 15: Checkpoint Charlie
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