It’s somewhat ironic the coup leaders used the pretense of Gorbachev’s “poor health” to legitimize their actions when Gorbachev is still alive as of 3/3/2022

@silvanagonzalez8469

2 жыл бұрын

They will use the same excuse for Putin un 2022.

@penskepc2374

2 жыл бұрын

I could have sworn Gorbachev died at some point during the pandemic, guess it's a false memory.

@sisophon1982

2 жыл бұрын

@@penskepc2374 Mandela Effect

@MuhammadFarukh

2 жыл бұрын

@@penskepc2374 I’m another person and am familiar with the Mandela affect as well but I had a recent conversation with my dad and he mentioned that Gorbachev passed last year. I didn’t think much of it but is it possible that this is just an incidence of fake news?

@penskepc2374

2 жыл бұрын

@@MuhammadFarukhyeah, it could been one of those hoax articles they do about celebrities, or maybe some other Eastern European leader that would be easily confused with him died. You said ask your dad again about it and see if he like vividly remembers hearing about Gorbachev dieing or if he just heard it in passing.

The last time Yeltsin was sober.

@oasis1282

2 жыл бұрын

L

@spkanava

Жыл бұрын

91

@mohinderkumar7298

2 ай бұрын

He had Czarist background in youth.

@bobbyhill5067

2 ай бұрын

lol 😂 he couldn’t find a new successor so he just picked Putin to be the new leader

@jpmnky

2 ай бұрын

@@bobbyhill5067he’s not even sober here.

It's hard to believe this happened 30 years ago. Great piece of history.

@drewreynolds1649

2 жыл бұрын

Now this happening now

@heccsclips3319

2 жыл бұрын

@Legalize Raping Russian Broads In America you are fucking sick

@goatgamer001

2 жыл бұрын

@@patricksimpson9225 that will probably happen in 2025, after trump Will become president again

@mirola73

2 жыл бұрын

It will repeat itself in time to come and we won't have to wait years for it.

@Pllayer064

2 жыл бұрын

It's gonna happen again soon

Gorbachev is still alive in 2022, and still gives interviews. But the gang of 8 that tried to overthrow him are all deceased.

@libertyforall5764

2 жыл бұрын

Tried?

@EmberDRG

2 жыл бұрын

unfortunately that vile human being is still alive

@zenothemeano4381

2 жыл бұрын

@@libertyforall5764 yes, tried. He was still unjustly couped though although libs don't want to admit it.

@michael-df8vt

2 жыл бұрын

@@zenothemeano4381 libs?

@ArcturusOTE

2 жыл бұрын

@@zenothemeano4381 Which libs are you talking about? Milquetoast American liberals or the Russian Liberal Democratic Party which isn't even liberal and is more of a RW populist?

"Yeltsin is our only hope" i wonder if she tought the same, once her son was drafted into the army to fight in chechnya.

@superdoglogan

6 жыл бұрын

MrAKNerd Well, her husband already fought a disastrous war in Afghanistan so

@MrAKNerd

6 жыл бұрын

so give up your son for another war?

@superdoglogan

6 жыл бұрын

MrAKNerd nah, war’s barbaric and shows the dark side of humanity. Whether it’s the Russians now in Crimea, the soviets in Afghanistan, the mongols in the Middle Ages, or the Greeks in Troy. War is something I want to avoid as a whole, which is why I cannot support neither the soviets nor current Russian government. A strong socialist yet isolationist state would be preferable

@EyeLean5280

6 жыл бұрын

A sad thought indeed.

@BlackMasterRoshi

6 жыл бұрын

superdog logan yup, it sure is. welp, that's life.

"Yeltsin is our only hope"- meanwhile Yeltsin becomes the worst thing that ever happened to Russia.

@nelsonbladimir6671

2 жыл бұрын

Yeltsin put Putin in power

@whatservicetojoin8593

2 жыл бұрын

@@nelsonbladimir6671 They do seem very different tho -- don't they ?

@ab8588

2 жыл бұрын

@@whatservicetojoin8593 Putin is Sober

@massinakmin8340

2 жыл бұрын

@@whatservicetojoin8593 yeah putin does not drink that is the difference

@dakkossman2063

2 жыл бұрын

@@nelsonbladimir6671 he supported him, but he would be for sure against him if he would know the upcoming reality

Must have occurred early in the day as Yeltsin isn’t even buzzed yet.

@kaldunaaa

2 жыл бұрын

I believe his alcoholism started after the dissolution of the USSR.

@andreborges3849

2 жыл бұрын

Laughed so much

@idiocrat3744

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaldunaaa He was always loving to drink too much. In August 19th (Morning) he was laying in his Dacha after a good drink with Kazakh leader. After some hours his guards will inform him about the Putsch and they will move out. Yeltsin was an alcoholic. In 90s this started hurting his health

@qarmatianwarhorse6028

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaldunaaa No, prior to that. It only came into prominent focus during his Presidency of Russia.

@johntitor7989

2 жыл бұрын

Yeltsin woke up with a buzz!

....and finally, Yeltsin died in 2007, and Gorbachev is still alive in 2018. 😂😂😂

@dedmurawskiy5982

4 жыл бұрын

Ja ustal, ja yhozhu!

@Daniel-fx7xv

3 жыл бұрын

2020 is still alive lol he never dies

@emericdion

3 жыл бұрын

imagine he could be leader of the soviet union for over 40 years it would've been a record lol

@unsec-genantonioguterres5788

3 жыл бұрын

@@emericdionin a alternate future or scenario where the soviet union survived,i dont think he will rule the soviet union for life.probably he will copy china's political system from 1983-2013 where there is collective leadership (unlike mao zedong and xi jinping) and the president haves term limit of 5 years,renewable once (10 years).sorry but soviets are tired of old man leadership in the kremlin,from brezhnev to andropov,from andropov to chernenko,and possibly to grigori romanov.

@antoniopaganini5700

3 жыл бұрын

It's because yetsin was an alchogolic, and maybe gorbachovs is queen Elizabeth's student?????? They are both immortal

As I recall, the soldiers had no clue why they were ordered to Moscow and milled about the city in confusion. The coup quickly collapsed and the Soviet Union with it.

@killiansonck6278

2 жыл бұрын

Huh, some thing never change.

@Destroyer2150

2 жыл бұрын

In 1991,russian soldiers didn't even know they were part of a coup. 31 years later, russian soldiers had no idea why they were invading ukraine The more things change, the more they stay the same

@DevilDaRebel

2 жыл бұрын

@@Destroyer2150 Lol, nice propaganda. Russian soldiers in 2022 invaded Ukraine due to the Neo-Nazis attacking the Donbas which many pro-Russian citizens resided.

@Destroyer2150

2 жыл бұрын

@@DevilDaRebel Yeah, and Putin wants World Peace and is innocent of any atrocities commited in Ukraine. Get your sources straight, or don't...

@DevilDaRebel

2 жыл бұрын

@@Destroyer2150 Your name indicates you're probably 14 year old. You don't know anything about this world nor it's history, kiddo. Stay in your lane and make sure you're aren't being brainwashed with agendas.

“Due to his state of health” he will outlive Putin.

@alexanders.170

2 жыл бұрын

Let's drink to that!

@testla3383

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexanders.170 said Boris Yeltsin

@armedwithBurgers

2 жыл бұрын

I will comeback to this comment if putin will pass earlier than gorbachev

@user-pw1rr2vm8b

2 жыл бұрын

Unless someone kills Putin he won't outlive him. Putin is in great shape you know

@psilobom

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-pw1rr2vm8b putin looks like hes pumped up on drugs what are you on about

I was on a business trip for a few days when this happened. It seemed surreal and took a year for it to sink in to my head...that Communism had toppled in Russia.

@wombatwilly1002

2 жыл бұрын

Not at the top

@nukacola3795

2 жыл бұрын

@duckynado that's why Gorby was removed. He followed the west's advise to have democratic elections and it was soon over. A commie system couldn't support the greed of capitalism.

@marvinyo5

2 жыл бұрын

@@nukacola3795 greed of capitalism is different greed of Oligarchs?? There's a reason why the Russian people haven't advanced in basic living standards compared to the Western world and that is the greed of the few oligarchs investing in the West and showing off their riches

@SCHMALLZZZ

2 жыл бұрын

The soviets never claimed to have achieved communism. It's more accurate to say the Bolshevik party collapsed.

@mikemarley2389

2 жыл бұрын

It only stumbled .

In 1988 our Professor of Western Civilization told us, in case we didn't notice, these are historic times for the Soviet Union and the world.

@carneirouece

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, more historic was de devastation this shit Yeltsin along with us did to Russia

@chriscurtis3150

2 жыл бұрын

What a gensius

@Hilaire_Balrog

2 жыл бұрын

It was great to be in college at that time. We had so many interesting conversations about the events happening at such a rapid pace.

@cooldudecs

Жыл бұрын

@@Hilaire_Balrog like today

@spkanava

Жыл бұрын

91

In retrospect I recall that some of us expected changes in the Soviet Union, after the 1989 collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, but no one foresaw the coup and the rapid collapse of USSR in December 1991. The coup had weakened Gorbachev more than it was apparent at the time.

@knispelwedges427

2 жыл бұрын

And here we are in March 2022. How weak is Putin right now? Interesting times.

@ZhuJo99

2 жыл бұрын

@@knispelwedges427 We here in eastern europe hoped the Russia will change to new democracy, yet, Putin turned it again into totality, with people brainwashed even worse than in communism.

@frenzalrhomb6919

2 жыл бұрын

@@knispelwedges427 Kurt Knipsel was the greatest German Tank Ace of WW2 , and the World's most prolific destroyer of Tanks, who was himself killed in the last few days of the whole War in Europe. Your Avatar name resembles his own very much, which is why mentioned him at all.

@knispelwedges427

2 жыл бұрын

@@frenzalrhomb6919 I've heard of him, or better said I read about him. However my name does not relate to him.

@frenzalrhomb6919

2 жыл бұрын

@@knispelwedges427 ,- Yeah I your name doesn't relate to him, it's just very similar, that's all.

I was on the Norwegian Soviet border when this was coming down. A lot of Norwegian troops on the road as we travelled to Kirkenes. Tension were high within NATO

8:08 This man gets it. Maybe our current “leaders” should listen to him.

Imagine just driving to work and seeing a bunch military tanks drive alongside you

@RokkitGrrl

2 жыл бұрын

Just another Tuesday in Mother Russia.

@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901

2 жыл бұрын

The best part was how nonchalant it was. Tanks committing a coup alongside and at the same pace as cars going to the office.

@PRubin-rh4sr

2 жыл бұрын

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 Yeah, you think your boss is gonna give a day-off because of a government collapse? 🤣

@lordkrythic6246

2 жыл бұрын

If morons keep voting Democrat, this will be common place in america soon, too. Democrats already want to abolish the Bill of Rights.

@mustangrt8866

2 жыл бұрын

and the economy is about to collapse

Traitors are more dangerous than the most powerful enemy.

@williamgill_esq.6487

6 жыл бұрын

Baran And the West is full of them. They are called liberals and progressives. Atheist Marxist Globalist traitors the whole lot of them.

@alexlaza5301

6 жыл бұрын

William Gill_Esq. Yeah right, people you disagrees with were all traitors. That is the spirit of true Freedom and Democracy!

@williamgill_esq.6487

6 жыл бұрын

Alexlaza You're a traitor. By just being the effeminate metro Leftist SJW that you are.

@neofusionstylx

6 жыл бұрын

Yea like Trump and his cronies. Treasonous bastards who colluded with a foreign power to influence an American election.

@neofusionstylx

6 жыл бұрын

William Gill_Esq. Lincoln should’ve hung all you treasonous hillbillies. Fuck trump. Fuck Russia. Flynn, manafort, zwaan, kushner, trump are going to prison.

"...those who have the normal, honest hearts of Russian citizens will never allow the army to fight its own people."

@adamdenton1543

2 жыл бұрын

Yeltsin in 1993: lol

@user-wq9mw2xz3j

2 жыл бұрын

Putin 2022:

@jozz2248

2 жыл бұрын

Not aging well...

@danrook5757

2 жыл бұрын

Well turn it on the Republics instead

@stevenbluestone2014

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Maidan, this is Mariupol

I love that this happened in August. Cause not even Russia would invade Russia in winter.

@bellami86

2 жыл бұрын

Actually the most critical moments of Russia's history happened in August

@BETTER.ART.

2 жыл бұрын

@@bellami86 October revolution?

@bellami86

2 жыл бұрын

@@BETTER.ART.read about what happened in august 1917😏

@bellami86

2 жыл бұрын

@@NeistoviySampay нет, напряги мозги, чтобы погуглить

@bellami86

2 жыл бұрын

@@NeistoviySampay никто не виноват что тебя забанили в гугле

2:35 the man standing on the tank on the far right is Viktor Zolotov. Current Director of the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardiya) and a member of the Security Council of Russia.

@rustemzholdybalin6210

2 жыл бұрын

and the chef of Kadyrov. Leader of one of two most powerful clans in Putin's elite, the only rival to Patrushev-Naryshkin coalition

@joetatoesniff9525

2 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@brazilpaes

2 жыл бұрын

Which work soviet ppl had?

The one moment Yeltsin was sober.

What is really tragic about this was that the USSR had already moved to being a multi-party liberal democracy and was about to sign an internal treaty that enshrined a new union, that respected the democratic sovereignty of each constituent republic, acknowledging the departure of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia. The new Union of Soviet *Sovereign* Republics would've been like the remaining 9 republics' version of the EU and NATO combined. Instead, the coup hastened a collapse which led to great poverty and the current war in Ukraine today.

The actual irony is that in the long run, Glasnost and the rise of Yeltsin was what allowed the original oligarchs to come into being, which is what led to Russia's economic decline and Putin's actions today.

@mrslushydaminator4974

2 жыл бұрын

russia has been growing since putin lol sanctions have always been in place before we were all born to make sure they never made it to the top. putin has pushed there economy back on top so i don't understand lmao

@tbiebrich

2 жыл бұрын

Bullshit. Its the leaders that didnt act properly to the growing threat. But look at Russia now. A few oligarchs are enough to control most of the country.. Almost as if thats what they wanted ;)

@tbiebrich

2 жыл бұрын

The soviet union failed and Glasnost and Perestroika were necessary as the union was highly in debt and couldnt sustain any longer

@TheNotSoFakeNews

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm not exactly true. The fall of communism shifted the power from the USSR to private wealthy business men. But let's not act like corruption and statesponsored oligarchs didn't happen in the USSR, infact they were worse in the USSR

@obliviouz

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrslushydaminator4974 Putin turned Russia into a petro-economy like Saudi Arabia, Qatar or the UAE. That's _not_ a good position to be in, because it comes at the cost of the atrophy of the rest of a country's economy and industrial base.

I wish they hadn't cut the part where Yeltsin demanded the safe return of the Gorbachevs. That was so inspiring.

@whythelongface64

3 жыл бұрын

So cute and heartwarming. Gorbachev deserves and end to his misery. He is a traitor and a disappointment to his country and should be condemned as such

@mr.100rupees3

2 жыл бұрын

He only did that to appear like a kind leader, in reality he wanted Gorbachev for hid own agenda

@bidenwearstrumpscrappypamp1829

2 жыл бұрын

Yeltsin was a western sock puppet and a drunk.

@tumppu123-h4s

2 жыл бұрын

@@whythelongface64 commie

@whythelongface64

2 жыл бұрын

@@tumppu123-h4s No, you're a cuckold, watching the bourgeoisie fk the economy people like you and I had built.

Watching during 2023 coup. Anyone else?

@ramudasanjuu

4 ай бұрын

it was a complete nothingburger

@Ma-official_

3 ай бұрын

@@ramudasanjuuit made the ruble collapse… and gave us some quality kino

@ravinraven6913

2 ай бұрын

no, the video was taken down and never seen again

Once again, YT Algo knows things we don't, suddenly this pops up in everyone's recommended to prepare us for events yet to occur this week--

@ronjeppson6071

2 жыл бұрын

Noticed that too did you? Haven't heard a whisper about this event since it happened back in the 90's and now suddenly I see it in my recommended feed....yeah right, total coincidence. I think YT wants people to start talking about it and spread the word...

@Squidward558

2 жыл бұрын

People don't understand how algorithms work I guess. If there's an uptick in interest for Russian related things as a result of current events, the algorithm will assume others want to see it. It's not a conspiracy just look at your search and watch history and you can put the pieces together.

"The Economy cannot be developt with tanks", well said!

@garethpreston8275

3 жыл бұрын

Every government employee and civil servants brain in the world would hear that and respond with 'SyntaxError'

@sanityassassin8161

2 жыл бұрын

If only Putin understood this!

@kelvinekline5950

2 жыл бұрын

Thats why USA war budget is highest than all country together spend for defence

@IncaWarrior.

2 жыл бұрын

@@kelvinekline5950 5 percent of GDP spending is high?

@stevem2323

2 жыл бұрын

@@kelvinekline5950 Huh? So you telling me that Google, Apple, Tesla, Chrysler etc are developed by tanks.

And it looks like it's happening again. June 23rd, 2023

@kiwaya_

2 ай бұрын

НЕ СМЕШНО, дальше пытайся быть выдающимся в обществе, обиженка

Google decided today was a good day to revive this video.

Ah yes his poor health he’s literally still alive in 2022 😂😂

@damikey18

2 жыл бұрын

At the ripe ol age of 91

@lookalike3107

Жыл бұрын

no

Рекомендации ютаба радуют, как и всегда

*”IT’S JUST A PRANK, COMRADE!”*

@Cheerful_Ox

2 жыл бұрын

What a funny prank

@spkanava

9 ай бұрын

91

Ready for the sequel!

"The economy cannot be developed by tanks." so true words. I wish Putin had also learnt this.

@Stickboy1733

2 жыл бұрын

@Анастасия Борисова And that means that you have to send tanks there????

@4thtime910

2 жыл бұрын

What...?

@oqocraft2661

2 жыл бұрын

@Анастасия Борисова change the don to dum in donbass and that's what you are

@SirNyanPanda

2 жыл бұрын

@Анастасия Борисова And that means you have to kill Russians in Ukraine????

@hithere9393

2 жыл бұрын

Funny because Yeltsin porceeded to detroy the Russian economy and turn it into an oligarchy

I read that the government held a referendum a few months before the coup asking people if they wanted the union to survive, but not necessarily as a communist country, rather, it would be a republic. Around 3/4 of the people said yes. If the coup hadn’t happened, the union might not have collapsed and Russia would be much larger.

@edmundwoolliams1240

2 жыл бұрын

@ELDEANTI Yes, but the OP means Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan among others

@coltonsupergame

2 жыл бұрын

@@edmundwoolliams1240 I get a feeling though that the 25% who didn’t want to be part of that union probably lived in those countries though as those 3 countries combined made up less than half what Russia had.

@MCTogs

2 жыл бұрын

@@edmundwoolliams1240 Ukraine also didn't want to be part of the new union iirc

@Dan-kr9bm

2 жыл бұрын

The Soviet Union is the classic example for a "forced Federation", kept together by coercion and not much else. As soon as they had the chance to, all other states of the Federation with Russia left.

@Bob31415

2 жыл бұрын

Russia would not be larger. Russia (officially The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) was only one of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics.

Electing such a drunk was the worst mistake

@oceanwavesandcocaine1129

2 жыл бұрын

luckily Putin is bringing back the Soviet Union

@glebsokolov2366

2 жыл бұрын

Way better than USSR or what we have now.

@StormcloakGuard

2 жыл бұрын

@@oceanwavesandcocaine1129 with taking Ukraine and...what other countries now? he cant touch the baltic countries or Poland

@Anthony-yn9dg

2 жыл бұрын

Enter Winston Churchill.

@judgemcnugget7110

Жыл бұрын

@@glebsokolov2366 what?! The USSR had universal healthcare, basically housing for all and very little unemployment. When the USSR was dissolved and Yeltsin came into power, the biggest life expectancy decline of all time in a country not at war has happened, people got homeless and unemployed in masses, the suicide rate sky-rocketed and child prostitution became became a thing. The USSR was much, much better than Russia today, let alone under Yeltsin.

What an important archive. Thanks 4 shearing

This and the first Gulf War are among my earliest memories...

@worldcomicsreview354

2 жыл бұрын

Mine too, I thought they were parts of the same war, especially once the shooting started in Moscow. Wonder where that little girl is now? She's about the same age I was. ("In Osaka" would be ridiculous)

@rodrigomarti1003

2 жыл бұрын

Mine too, im 34 now.

@Menaceblue3

2 жыл бұрын

LoL, I was born in 89' and I faintly remember a concrete wall being demolished and a party happening. Then I remember something about a war far away.

@spkanava

Жыл бұрын

91

I remember being up all night watching this in Seattle.

Oh, Algorithm, what have you brought us today? A message for the future?

Fun fact, all the way to the right of Yeltsin is Zolotov, who is now the head of the Russian national guard

@samemmo3202

2 жыл бұрын

Really

@PRubin-rh4sr

2 жыл бұрын

Most of the top guys right now are the young officers of this time

@whatservicetojoin8593

2 жыл бұрын

@@PRubin-rh4sr Curious to know what SWATs think about this - - - what has just happened - in 2022 - Is this the 1st time in history that NATO nuclear first strike military projects have ever been captured by Russians ? Congradulations ! To the SWAT Teams !

@ArcturusOTE

2 жыл бұрын

Russian nationalism really is a weird thing

You: Why are you recommending this now? Google: *Give it a few days*

"The economy cannot be developed with tanks." I was in highschool when this aired.

@reubensandwich9249

2 жыл бұрын

In the 1970s, roughly 44% of hard currency sales were through tanks.

@schoolofgrowthhacking

2 жыл бұрын

I was five. Too young to remember. Now we are almost senior citizens 😅

@discoboy8169

2 жыл бұрын

You are lucky, that was my childhood, some bastards broke the country and we been living in hell for about 7 years from 1991. USSR was ok, compare to capitalism in Russia in first years, now they have capitalism corrupted even more than USSR.

3:13 that man in a black suit is now the head of repression service - "rosgvardia" (national guard). How things change.

@Ved000000

2 жыл бұрын

When everyone was panicking about the communist coup, they failed to see the capitalist coup unfolding before them. Just remember: you asked for this.

@spkanava

10 ай бұрын

91

The coup failed for one reason.The failure to take out yeltsin.Yes other factors played their part,but if Yeltsin had been arrested,all the other factors would not have happened. Any opposition in order to achieve final victory,must have a leader.Someone who can harness and organize and express people's complaints etc. Yeltsin was that person. In many ways in that time,the only one. Had the coups leaders had him,the coup would have have no real organized opposition,and as per Soviet history,the coup would have succeeded. Yeltsin,was brilliant in that he said at that time,he was only fighting to bring back the Soviet president and the Soviet constitutional order,thereby gaining allies from Gorbacheves allies and moderate communists as well as anti Soviet forces in the people,army and leaders. While in fact Yeltsin was really fighting for the destruction of the Soviet state. If he failed and the coup won he was finished. If he won,he knew he would have the means to finish not save Gorbachev,and the Soviet state. The coup plotters despite their high positions in the Soviet state tried to do a coup using Humane Gorbachev style methods,,while overthrowing him. They thought that just being in power and based on Soviet systems past power and fear,that when orders are given,that's it.But Gorbachev had already weakened the fear system and put other spheres of power in Soviet system that would fatally weaken them. Plus it was done on the spur of the moment and the military and KGB were not given orders at the outset or had unreliable leaders to carry them out. Poorly planned and was it seems done on a moment's notice. Sadly,most of the people who rallied to Yeltsin,did so to bring back Gorbachev and law. What they got was a ruthless man only concearned about himself and power,who sold the Russian state to the highest bidder. Destroying the life's of the Russian people,humiliating and tearing apart the Russian state.Leading to the Russian people's hatred of democracy,USA and leading to Putin. Something that has cost our nation greatly. But in the end cost the Russian people the most.As they still don't have the freedoms they so deserve to have.

@contradriverESP

6 жыл бұрын

Freed Belak Thanks for that analysis mate

@SovietUnion100

6 жыл бұрын

ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS! Any anti communists are traitors and have done nothing but sell and destroy the country. You motherfuckers brought disgrace upon the working class of the world and sold them all off to slavery.

@manatee2500

6 жыл бұрын

An astute point, Dmitri. People forget how much worse the transition could easily have been. Credit for many sides East & West, but the most for those who risked their own lives for freedom in Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, etc. It was a monumental achievement for humanity.

@emaadkhan3031

4 жыл бұрын

Dmitri Kozlowsky did you say they tried to soften the fall? Honestly trying to give you a chance here. But that's bullshit. We both know it.

@stupidben999

4 жыл бұрын

Another brainwashed Commie crying about the loss of their empire, I'm sure the Baltic people & Eastern Europeans would grin at your shit.

Boris Yeltsin had Czarist background on joining Communist Party in 1970s. He was bourgeois. Difficult entry. But took revenge from Communist Party in 1989.

The fact is that most nations are based on ethnicity. USSR was based on the ideology of socialism. Once they took it out, there was no point to it’s existence. It’s that simple. And yes, I was born in USSR. And it’s people identified by their own nationalities. USSR was multinational state, not a nation.

@ninny65

2 жыл бұрын

So is the Russian Federation, there are still countless Asian and Caucasian ethnicities under Russian sovereignty

@gareginasatryan6761

2 жыл бұрын

@@ninny65 yes, but Russia is named after an ethnicity. Those are minorities.

@danijaldblr3388

2 жыл бұрын

I mean the USA, Canada and every other central or south american nation isnt based on ethnicity same applies to africa. This is just wrong.

@gareginasatryan6761

2 жыл бұрын

@@danijaldblr3388 yes. This was done deliberately in Africa to foster internal conflict

@brynnemeza

2 жыл бұрын

@@danijaldblr3388 africa want best choice

"Перемен Требовали наши сердца Ну а теперь Поедим мы дружно говна"

1991: Gorbachev has poor health (and he still is alive 30 years later)

@nokiatunes7256

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaely9900 Gorbachov might have had good intentions but he ruined a Superpower and brought misery to over 250milion people.

Prigozhin didn’t even make it to the Kremlin :(

Winds of Change.

Stalin : I'm disappointed

Russia reminds one of a person who has been so abused as a child that they end up spending all their adult years paranoid and lashing out against perceived enemies.

@santinavitalis

2 жыл бұрын

Powerful analogy......the people who drive themselves to power seem fuelled by that energy.....

@kguy6635

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha "abused child". Were _you_ knocked on the head as a child? In the 1990s the USSR and then the Russian federation killed Azeris in a massacre, made the Qarabaq war worse, invaded Chechnya (twice) and almost invaded the Baltic states.

@fgqgqlfqsfsffeff

2 жыл бұрын

@@kguy6635 I think you missed the point amigo, he is agreeing with you.

I remember this I was 15

YT algo remains undefeated

Freedom doesn't benefit the authoritarians.

@lordkrythic6246

2 жыл бұрын

I wish more Democrats would understand your words. Maybe then we could come together as a country, and work to cure all the cancer, destruction, erosion, and rage the Democrat party has created.

if you ever feel stupid just remember Russian military fired at its own Parliament Building lmao

@EyeLean5280

6 жыл бұрын

Doesn't make some Americans any less stupid.

@WalknTalknStevnHawkn

6 жыл бұрын

lol... sounds like someone is living in your head RENT FREE, eyelean.

@EyeLean5280

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that would be me :) You, on the other hand, sound like the kind of person who insults strangers on the internet based on one comment you read. Maybe 'cause you are? Have fun with it.

@WalknTalknStevnHawkn

6 жыл бұрын

it's a poke at the fact that people are so obsessed with america that anytime anyone pokes fun at their nation they need to cry about america, the joke is america lives in your head rent free. i didn't insult anyone, i simply pointed out that you're acting like a typical clown, but now that you're showing how much of a fool you are, you definitely would be deserving.

@margaretwilson8736

6 жыл бұрын

WalknTalknStevnHawkn I agree - people are incredibly quick to point to the US to ignore their own country's problems. The US has its international policy flaws (quite a handful, really), but the US has done much more good than harm. We helped rebuild Europe, SK, Japan, etc. We helped China open up so that they can finally regain prominence after a Century of Humiliation. We even helped get them on the WTO, which quickened the pace of their economic development. We support the Kurds in the Middle East, which nearly no one else does, though they are the victims of genocide in multiple countries. A lot of the truly awful stuff happened in the 60s and 70s. The Vietnam War and coups in Latin American and "banana republics" come to mind. However, it was a different time, and the US has liberalized as time goes on. I'm not blind in my patriotism, but I support my country. In a democracy, the people can choose different leaders if they don't like them - in Russia, it is much harder to do this because of the centralization of power.

Seeing this now I wonder how close Putin was to the head of the KGB back then. The KGB always hated democratic reforms.

My God, did they know Yeltsin was a boob? A disastrous one at that.

And apparently Russia still likes being isolated. 🤷‍♂️

@stvk99

2 жыл бұрын

it's not Russia's fault the West hates her.

@spkanava

9 ай бұрын

91

@ChicoTheMan69

9 ай бұрын

@@spkanava .....bottles of beer on the wall 91 bottles of beer, If one of those bottles should happen to fall 90 bottles of beer on the wall.......

I'm always annoyed thinking about this, so many Russians call out Gorbachev for the loss and say the coup was justified, the coup happened in August and was cited in the Ukrainian declaration of Independence written shortly after the coup, Gorbachev officially dissolved the USSR in December.. do they not connect the dots? there was no USSR left by December

thank you.how at age 66 have I never seen this?

So smooth..

No one mentions the destruction Yeltsin brought on that same building he's "Defending" Facism usually comes as a defender of freedom

@conveyor2

3 жыл бұрын

The building filled with communists trying another coup. They got what they deserved.

@scorpiocanuck6321

3 жыл бұрын

@@conveyor2 Another coup? They were civilians being fired on by their own military. Yeltsin took part in a coup not the other way round

@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know do you know that the whole facists everywhere thing is old trick of the Soviet propaganda machine. They label everything they don't like as facist, regardless does it have absolutely anything to do with facism for real.

@scorpiocanuck6321

2 жыл бұрын

@@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20 I didn't call him Fascist but you just did

What's plain is when KGB head as well as minister of defense asked army and internal troops to storm Yeltsin's compound and arrest him, the men who actually had guns in their hands and tank wheels under their control dithered, then refused; Only a few years later, when Yeltsin asked the military to do essentially the same thing for him against his opponents, ultimately the military obeyed and you saw tank firing at opposition building: point is there are reasons SU went down.

@HateTheIRS

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@againsttheriver3657

2 жыл бұрын

Well this is a load of misinformation

@againsttheriver3657

2 жыл бұрын

The soldiers did not refused, on counturary young commanders and soldiers were optimistic and enthusiastic about the situation many whaited for the sacred command to open fire and saw it as defence of country from internal enemys, but Yazov(the marshal of soviet army) refused this plan and wanet to whait

@againsttheriver3657

2 жыл бұрын

Also you can clearlly see the support levels, the peoplle who oposed coup in 1991 gathered around parlament and the rest of city was calm, while in 1993 peoplle who wanet the coup back tok over almoust entire city, all the streats were full of peoplle and they even tok over red square.

@hueghh3775

2 жыл бұрын

@@againsttheriver3657 if there were so many in favor of keeping the Soviet Union, why isn’t it around anymore?

The Soviet Union was born in the Bolshevik coup d’etat of 1917 and dissolved with the failed coup of 1991. From dust to dust.

@aetiologist3973

3 жыл бұрын

The Circle of Life

@Cheerful_Ox

2 жыл бұрын

@@aetiologist3973 yes

thanks youtube this was very interesting

I remember thinking must be some chernoble when viewing this with snowing looking on screen

I'm shocked there was a rush hour.

I remember when this was reported and I thought there would be a nuclear war the way it was reported. The networks broke through and interrupted programming with an “emergency” broadcast. I was terrified until I realized it was sensationalized.

@kguy6635

2 жыл бұрын

Oh this was not sensationalist. The 1990s, especially the war in Chechnya, would have consequences that led to among other things ISIS, the invasion of Ukraine, the fuel crisis, the Boston marathon bombings, the remilitarisation of Russia in the late 2000s, and much much more. You just wouldn't know it yet.

@spkanava

Жыл бұрын

91

I can live, with or without you

Dam, I thought it was on and then I saw the date. Bummer.

Remember when news was like this and not cut up and set up to serve a narrative

Good to know nothing really changed on the inside just got a nice face lift for a few decades

Thanks KZread recommended

Fascinating to recap, given recent events. I can’t say what to make of it though.

@whatservicetojoin8593

2 жыл бұрын

Very Urgent - Lawyers Should Sue To Stop Usurper Biden From Sending Weapons To Terrorists In Ukraine ! What do U think about Lawsuits to stop the sanctions ??? Re-Tweet !

@spkanava

Жыл бұрын

91

KGB officer: Yeah I kinda felt a little bad about silencing the media, but... man, what a rush 🤣

Chernobyl (1986) was the crumbling factor of the Soviet Empire... nobody looked to Moscow for the latest in computers, cars, fashion or anything else. Even in 1985, the Soviet empire was creaking...by 1991, it was done.

@surendramumgai631

2 жыл бұрын

Nations don't cease to exist bcoz they don't have the latest things , USSR was brought down by inept , foolish leaders who got duped by western promises of a better future minus the soviet system.

@pussy_destroyer2294

2 жыл бұрын

@@surendramumgai631 yes they don't cease to exist, they become weak and irrelevant without string economy which is what happened to ussr

@dariomladenovski7047

2 жыл бұрын

no it wasn't done they were in a bad spot because they were still recovering from WW2 because they lost 27 million and no one rebuilt their country like the West rebuilt Europe, it was easy for America to become the richest country when no one invaded and bombed them during WW2 and they didn't have two world wars happening at their doorstep

@cryp0g00n4

2 жыл бұрын

@@dariomladenovski7047 Its impossible for US to be in a weak position with the geographic isolation they enjoy. They are practically analogous to the UK. UK to Europe is US to the World. US are practically an island when you think about it, Canada is friendly to them and Mexico is too weak and corrupt to be of any importance. The only other routes are the carribean islands which standout by cultural differences. All of South America might as well not also be considered too far too to be of any importance. The colonization of the western hemisphere were basically going to become the most economically sound from the start.

@afroninjadeluxe

2 жыл бұрын

@@cryp0g00n4 Only one wanting to attack Russia is itself.

If Gorbachev stayed in power and the USSR wasn't dismantled the way it was it would be now one of the richest and most developed countries in the world.

@texaswunderkind

2 ай бұрын

The oil reserves plus minerals and forestry products certainly could make Russia more of an economic superpower than it is today. But it was going to be a tough transition from communist economy to capitalism. Yeltsin tried the "jump in with both feet" approach, which caused a decade of crime and chaos. Russia's most valuable assets were plundered by a few future oligarchs smart enough to realize what was happening. Corruption would have remained a problem, and it takes a lot of investment capital to reach all of those natural resources in remote Russia.

@user-wx6vz2vn3y

2 ай бұрын

@@texaswunderkind and that's why Gorbachev wanted a gradual transition to a socialdemocratic system through a period of reforms.

2:35 The man on the extreme right in the black suite is Viktor Zolotov- now he is the head of National Guard and Putin's closest supporter and enforcer.

@whatservicetojoin8593

2 жыл бұрын

Curious to know what SWATs think about this - - - what has just happened - in 2022 - Is this the 1st time in history that NATO nuclear first strike military projects have ever been captured by Russians ? Congradulations ! To the SWAT Teams ! What does Zolotov say about that ?

@geothon

2 жыл бұрын

@@whatservicetojoin8593 So the Kremlin propaganda moved on from the "secret bio labs" to the nuclear first strike? Upping the dose, comrade!

@UrMom-jb7vl

2 жыл бұрын

I mean putin himself was a yeltsin supporter, putin wasn't a communist hardliner.

This has all happened before, it is happening again.

Щас все эти люди говорят "а мы его не выбирали, он сам силой власть взял" хехехе

@stokzzzbatalov9249

2 жыл бұрын

Кого его?

@MCTogs

2 жыл бұрын

Много людей думали что Ельцин просто вернёт Горбачева, они не хотели чтобы именно Ельцин стал президентом

Can’t wait to watch this happen again live on 2022

Wow. This was a few days before I was born and it looks so damn old. Where has time gone...

Most Russians, much later after 10-15 years, much regret that Yeltsin ever got to power. He basically sold out our country. In this video, all you hear is people who are hopeful for the best but history persistently shows us that Yeltsin was not a better choice for Russia. Those who really believe in democracy, understand, that one should do whats right for the country, not for whats best for others. Westerners, wouldn't you want whats best for YOUR country?

@davidboswell2225

5 жыл бұрын

I Agree with you, yes.

@mega9756

3 жыл бұрын

People goes for Yeltsin because only him can destroy damn USSR and give freedom for Russia

@Brakvash

3 жыл бұрын

You can't fault the people for being mistaken about Jeltsin, you still need to build a democratic spirit, your former communist spirit wasn't built in a decade- it was created over 70 years and only became mature in the 1950's when you had some good decades. Why people progress towards is that creating stability in a democracy is more difficult but once it is built and the people's trust is put down into the system the people *do* rule themselves and most famous democracies are about 100 years now- Russia's problem is you never experienced democracy, Russia went from being a scary feudal state - to a civil war - to being a scary centralized one-party state. You had none of the culture or regulations to support a democracy, so I think China (despite it going Authoritarian Capitalism) did it the right way and slowly shaped insitutions and people to be prepared for change. I think the hubris lay both in the USSR thinking it had the greatness to switch from communism to liberalism at the push of a button - and the West's dumb belief that you could simply plop down democracies *cough* Iraq *cough* without changing how people and institutions acted. The West had to fight their own battles and win their own democracy while Russia was under the thumb of the Tsar or Stalin - so I get why you are disillusioned and broken from the sheer system-shock of what you released after the Collapse - I wouldn't call the aftermath democracy but more like actual Libertarianism where companies/corporations/interest groups like the mafia take over the reigns of ruling the country as a long-term elite.

@saidblanco7696

2 жыл бұрын

@@mega9756 Freedom of killing people

@RandomGuy9

2 жыл бұрын

@Open-minded World - Do you still think he's perfect?

Just think...some of those tanks might be burning wreckage in Ukraine right now

This news is so high quality.

Where is day two?

"the army will never fight against its own people" -- two years after, during the counter coup, the same army was fighting against its people under the orders of Usa, oops I mean Yeltsin.

“The economy cannot be developed by tanks” mannnn Russia didn’t learn lol.

@yespeace2000

2 жыл бұрын

It would be cool to get in touch with these people and find out what are they thinking *now* of those and current events.

wow top notch journalism, doesnt even compare to the tripe they make nowadays

Hard to believe this happened in my lifetime wow

It’s crazy I remember that lame crowd chanting “yeltsin! Yeltsin!” Softly. Guess I saw it in 1991.

It needs to happen again

oh boy... and the youtube algorithm has brought us all here... will history repeat itself?

Here's hoping for a sequel.

The one day when Yeltsin was sober

So if these coup leaders brought tanks into Moscow, and had control of most of the military, how did yeltsin later get control of it?

@bidenwearstrumpscrappypamp1829

2 жыл бұрын

The coup might've been a set up tactic to get Gorbachev to resign. A real coup like the WW3 mock u ment art released in 1998 would've executed him.

@js_guyman

2 жыл бұрын

@@bidenwearstrumpscrappypamp1829 I don't understand. What's the WW3 mockumentary?

@ronjeppson6071

2 жыл бұрын

It was a couple of Politburo heads who triggered the coup...KGB and I think Defense, once the Army was out in the street and the public began swarming the tanks along with Yeltsin coming out and giving his speech the officers on scene started calling back to higher HQ for instructions, basically the Generals of the divisions stationed around Moscow said no-go and threw in with Yeltsin who had be duly elected.

@seansimms8503

2 жыл бұрын

Yeltins had command of some Russian forces who engaged the Soviet Forces who had kidnapped Gorbachev, August of 1991 I was in the Marines...Yeltins was President of Russia and Anti Soviet, when he saved Gorbachev he forced him to outlaw the Soviet Party, Gorbachev held his power through the Soviet party.

Time for a sequel

:( sad times.