Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe
On August 19, 1991, when the ultra-conservative putschists sent tanks into Moscow to stop perestroika and the collapse of the USSR, Soviet TV was too shocked to know what to show. So they showed "Swan Lake." It's what @tvrain broadcast after their last broadcast. @EvgenyFeldman https://t.co/1CD6k3IyQ2 — PolitiTweet.org