Moscow, December 25, 1991

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10 Colton, Yeltsin, 296.

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11 Zenkovich, Malchishki v Rozovykh Shtanishkakh, 388.

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12 Sukhanov, Tri Goda s Yeltsinym, 233.

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1 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 279.

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2 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 78-79.

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3 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 235.

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4 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 66.

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5 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 235.

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1 Interviews with Koppel, September 2009, and Kaplan, November 2009, cited here and elsewhere in the chapter.

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2 ABC Television, unedited footage, December 25, 1991.

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3 Gorbachev and Mlynar, Conversations with Gorbachev, 92.

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4 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 15, 1991.

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5 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 225.

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6 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 20, 1991.

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1 Shulgan, The Soviet Ambassador, 265-267.

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2 Dobrynin, In Confidence, 621-622.

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