Address by the President of the USSR M.S. Gorbachev regarding the referendum on the preservation of the USSR

USSR. Moscow. March 14, 1991. President of the USSR, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (right, foreground) during the recording of an address to the Soviet people for Central Television regarding the holding of an All-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR. Vladimir Timofeevich Medvedev, Major General of the USSR State Security Committee, head of M.S. Gorbachev's personal security, is present during the recording (center, background). Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS