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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 30 > Shenin, 71, helped try to overthrow Gorbachev

Shenin, 71, helped try to overthrow Gorbachev

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
May 30, 2009

MOSCOW — Oleg Shenin, a Soviet Communist Party official who played an active part in an abortive attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, died Thursday. He was 71. He died in Moscow, the Russian Communist Party said in a statement that did not give a cause of death.

Shenin was....

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