On August 19 ​ — just five days before our convention was to begin — ​ Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the USSR, was arrested while on vacation near Yalta, not far from where we were.
Më 19 gusht, vetëm pesë ditë para kongresit, u arrestua Mihail Gorbaçovi, presidenti i atëhershëm i BRSS - së, kur ishte me pushime afër Jaltës.