Reaction after Mikhail Gorbachev deposed

Title

Reaction after Mikhail Gorbachev deposed

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference; Speech

TX Date

19 Aug 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:03:04

Description

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has been deposed, Tim Locke rounds up world reaction. Comment from political commentator Joe Adamov; former KGB officer Stanislav Levchenko on new Soviet leader Gennady Yanayev; Prime Minister John Major; shadow Foreign Secretary Gerald Kaufman; Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown; former PM Margaret Thatcher (Big Ben heard in background); former PM Edward Heath; US President George H W Bush. Also Soviet demonstrators chanting and Moscow Radio announcement of coup.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Edward Heath; Gerald Kaufman; John Major; Paddy Ashdown; George H. W. Bush; Stanislav Levchenko; Tim Locke; Moscow Radio; Joe Adamov

Keywords

USA; Revolutions; USSR; International relations; Political reform; Cold War; Heads of state; Presidents; Political leaders; Mikhail Gorbachev; East West relations; Economic reform; Gennady Yanayev

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