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By Ellen Barry / The Bulletin
May 11, 2009
MOSCOW — Retired Gen. Valentin Varennikov, who plotted to overthrow President Mik-hail Gorbachev and called the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century,” died Wednesday in Moscow. He was 85.
His death was announced by the Club of....
