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Thirty-five years ago, the GKChP coup began—and collapsed in ignominy just three days later.
Here is an excerpt from our 2015 book The Red Web, describing how Muscovites used the nascent Internet against the KGB-led conspirators in August 1991:
slate.com/technology/201…

slate.comHow the 1991 Soviet Internet Helped Stop a Coup and Spread a Message of Freedom

Aug 19, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC

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