Former Soviet leader Gorbachev says he knows who plotted the siege on U.S. Capitol

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Gorbachev briefly was held captive during an attempted coup against him in the former Soviet Union.

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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said that he knows who planned the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and that the incident bodes ill for America's future

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"The storming of the Capitol was clearly designed in advance, and it is clear by whom," Gorbachev last week told an interviewer for Russian media. And, while he didn't identify the plotters, the renowned statesman said that he senses machinations at work.
"It will take a little time, and we will figure it out, why it was really done," Gorbachev said.

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The Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol was quickly put down, and was not accompanied by the usual trappings of a coup d'etat, such as tanks in the streets. Nevertheless, Gorbachev indicated that the episode would reverberate through the United States. The incident "called into question the future fate of the United States as a state," he said.

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