How Alex Golesh went from Communist Russia to Tennessee offensive coordinator

Alex Golesh can’t recall much about his final summer living in Moscow as a child, but he remembers the tanks.

Hardline Communists staged an August coup in 1991 with the goal of ousting Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Tanks were on Moscow’s streets, in the Red Square and in front of Russia’s White House. Three protesters died, one of whom was crushed by a tank. The Soviet Union was on a path to dissolution.