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Missed #OTD for the past week or so. A selected few ... <Thread>
15 August 1920: #Poland halts the advancing #Soviet army at Warsaw, the "Miracle on the Vistula". Had the Soviets broken through, they would have captured Germany, where a Red rising had only just been defeated, and with its people and resources Communized all of Europe. Image
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43 BC: Octavian forces the Senate to make him a Consul

1953: Iran's lawless Prime Minister Mossadeq is deposed a counter-coup assisted by SIS and CIA

1991: KGB-led coup attempt in the Soviet Union begins

2010: Last combat troops leave Iraq after seven years ImageImageImageImage
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