People reflected on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who presided over the end of the Cold War but lived long enough to see the East-West divide revived during the war in Ukraine.
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On August 18, 1991, the Soviet President was placed under house arrest during an attempted coup by hardline Communists that collapsed as abruptly as it began
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