- 23rd Aug= parliament held a telivised session that showed Y criticising G over allowing conservatives to remain in parliament after the August coup.
- 23rd Aug= Y suspends operations of the Communist Party & a few days later the Supreme Soviet declares the same of the USSR.
- 24th Aug= G willingly resigns after seeing the damage he has effectively done and witnessing opposition against him as a leader.
- 29th Aug= Supreme Soviet banned all activities by the Communist party.
- Succession of Ukraine in Dec 1991 fnally kills off any prospect of a loosely federated Soviet surviving.
- The new states began forming their armies.
IMPACT= Fall of communism, due to August Coup. It was the catalyst for the collapse but other factors such as Yeltsin, economic & political reforms and the system eled in favour of the collapse.
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