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putsch a violent and sudden uprising; political revolt, esp a coup d'état How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The enemies of America recognized long ago that only a sustained assault on America's cultural and moral foundations could possibly bring about the conditions for a political revolution on the scale of the Communist putsches that enslaved Russia and the former Eastern Bloc countries. This definition is perhaps closest to the essence of the phenomenon but it, however, contains a substantial inaccuracy: wars, armed conflicts (conspicuously unmentioned), insurrections, revolts, putsches (which are actually the same thing) are a component part of such general concept as military conflict. Since achieving independence in the wake of the August 1991 abortive coup in Moscow, the country has "enjoyed" three presidents, multiple acting presidents, two successful putsches, a handful of attempted coups d'etat, and generally more instability than most Middle Eastern, Caribbean, or chronically putsch-prone Central and South American countries could pack into a full decade. |
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