By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
January 9, 2023 at 06:30 JST
The original official telegram sent by diplomat Masaru Sato to report that President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived the August 1991 Soviet coup. It was released with other diplomatic documents in December at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki district. (Hiroyuki Yamamoto)
Japan found itself in the enviable position of being among the first nations to learn that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived a failed coup attempt by Communist hard-liners in 1991 before the country collapsed under the weight of his reform programs. [Read More]
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