Panorama

25/02/1991 (1991x7)

Exibido em:: Fev 25, 1991

While the world has been distracted by the Gulf crisis, momentous political events have been taking place in the Soviet Union, which put a question mark against President Gorbachev's entire programme of reform. Gavin Hewitt reports on how the struggle for independence in the republics combined with mounting economic chaos to provoke a formidable conservative backlash.