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FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 24, 1991 file photo, thousands of Muscovites carry a huge Russian national flag as they walk with the coffins of three victims of the failed Kremlin coup in Moscow, Russia. When a group of top Communist officials ousted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev 30 years ago and flooded Moscow with tanks, the world held its breath, fearing a rollback on liberal reforms and a return to the Cold War confrontation. But the August 1991 coup collapsed in just three days, precipitating the breakup of the Soviet Union that plotters said they were trying to prevent.(AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)