... President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian federation to call a strike. ... for a general strike to fight the ouster of Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

Reformist Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was removed from power today by his hardline opponents who imposed a state of emergency sending shock waves across the world which had witnessed unprecedented changes during his six-year rule.#htthisday #gorbachev #sovietrepublic #ReformistSovietPresident #Gorbachev #stateofemergency
HT This Day: August 20, 1991 -- Hardliners oust Gorbachev