The Week That Shook The World: The Soviet Coup - ABC News (1991)

An ABC News documentary covering the military coup attempt in the Soviet Union from August 19 to August 25, 1991.

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  • @93Jubilee
    @93Jubilee2 жыл бұрын

    By pure chance, I happened to be visiting Moscow in late August of 1991 after a summer of research in Prague. When we landed in Moscow, my husband and I had no inkling that there was a massive upheaval taking place. But when I realized what was happening -- with tanks churning up the asphalt on the streets, Russian women weeping on street corners, barricades on the bridges leading to the Parliament Building, we quickly caught on. The lack of information was incredible; all tv channels were filled with the same entertainment (I want to say it was a famous ballet, but I'd have to look it up, didn't spend much time watching the aimless but significant show that was on every single channel, indicating that something was vastly wrong). We went straight to the Parliament Building, surrounded by Russian tanks (turrets then challenging the Russian "White House" and by Russian protestors). My husband was frightened but I had my camera and couldn't stop taking photographs and attempting to talk to the protestors. Thank god, after a few days, it ended in peace. (So interesting, many years later, in 2016, I was visiting a friend in Nairobi after the terrorist attack on the mall took place. The news covered every detail, criticizing the Kenyan government harshly)

  • @metameta1427

    @metameta1427

    Жыл бұрын

    Your memory about what was on Soviet TV during the coup is correct: "On August 19, 1991, Russians awoke to looping videos of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake on Soviet state TV - a sure sign something seismic was up." I was just a young kid in grade school in the USA in '91. At the start of the school year, each kid chose a foreign country to do a project on throughout the year. I had chosen the USSR and got to follow this craziness and write about it, giving kid-style presentations to the class. Because of that project, I've always been a Soviet-phile, interested in anything of that period from the revolution until the disolution. To this day (as evidence of my presence in the comments of a news vid from 1991) I get lost in anything to do with the USSR. It's sad what has occurred in Russia after Yeltsin selfishly chose an unknown KGB officer as his successor. Russia could be a great, thriving country given a Scandinavian type system of government.

  • @brinjoness3386

    @brinjoness3386

    Жыл бұрын

    Please try and digitise any photos you have from that trip and post online somewhere. Historians of the future will appreciate it. 👍🇦🇺🇱🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  • @youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw4904

    @youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw4904

    Жыл бұрын

    Post your photos online please, those would be very valuable to history

  • @petrsovicka

    @petrsovicka

    Жыл бұрын

    @@metameta1427 A typical Western view... I must oppose this idea. Taking into account the geography and history given Russia could hardly become a Scandinavian type democracy. I also cannot agree in the question of succession. The choice of Putin was quite a lot deliberated not by Yeltsin but by Yevgheny Primakov. Yeltsin got an immunity from prosecution in the deal made and to be frank that was the thing he and his circle cared the most.

  • @metameta1427

    @metameta1427

    Жыл бұрын

    @@petrsovicka agree to disagree. Have a good day.

  • @jeffkardosjr.3825
    @jeffkardosjr.3825 Жыл бұрын

    Boris Yeltsin would attack that same Congress building a couple years later in 1993.

  • @K.Marx48

    @K.Marx48

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly and with lots of deads, but that's democracy apparently, how sweet

  • @NPCorangebad

    @NPCorangebad

    Жыл бұрын

    @@K.Marx48 He was probably working with the Americans for money.

  • @stephenmarcus9601

    @stephenmarcus9601

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeltsin was power hungry. He killed the Union that lead to Oligarchs & the edge of WW3 today.

  • @anemoiatrippin

    @anemoiatrippin

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeh and he would be hailed as the "democratic one" for firing and then firing ON his own parliament smh

  • @Ickie71

    @Ickie71

    Жыл бұрын

    ah i stuck this on today thinking this was the Tank attack that took place i forgot it happened twice!

  • @jamesmiller113
    @jamesmiller11310 ай бұрын

    22:05 - good to see Borat kept his eye in as things fell apart

  • @livethefuture2492
    @livethefuture2492 Жыл бұрын

    News was different back then...feels like i am really watching history change before my eyes.

  • @Marco-fn6kg
    @Marco-fn6kg Жыл бұрын

    I loved when news was news

  • @FireMarshallStev
    @FireMarshallStev Жыл бұрын

    Peter Jennings had an incredible skill in delivering straight facts while at the same time unapologetically calling it like he saw it.

  • @claytondusauzay6745
    @claytondusauzay674510 ай бұрын

    That '90-'91 period was absolutely nuts. Between the Gulf war and this. Crazy times.

  • @Cooe.

    @Cooe.

    10 ай бұрын

    True, but it still ain't got shit on 2020-2022 🤷.

  • @skymaster4743

    @skymaster4743

    9 ай бұрын

    Those were monumental years as the world formally transitioned from the bipolarity of the Cold War into a Post Cold War era with the US as the pre-eminent superpower.

  • @ReveredDead

    @ReveredDead

    8 ай бұрын

    And here we are. 2020-2023 have been the most chaotic and unstable years I have ever witnessed. Especially now with Israel and Gaza. We are on the brink of something really bad. Too say we aren't in a new cold war with China and Russia is to deny the complete state of the world today October 22th 2023.

  • @me-jv8ji

    @me-jv8ji

    7 ай бұрын

    the everything since 1900s was crazy with everything that has happened

  • @sarahnewton2550

    @sarahnewton2550

    4 ай бұрын

    @@Cooe.yeah you could have kept 2023 in that! 😂

  • @josephhoward4697
    @josephhoward4697 Жыл бұрын

    “History repeats itself; try and you’ll succeed.”

  • @tmp197

    @tmp197

    Жыл бұрын

    oh so close........keep trying liberators!!!

  • @jenniferclark9842

    @jenniferclark9842

    Жыл бұрын

    No, but to quote Mark Twain, it often rhymes.

  • @yaboyed5779

    @yaboyed5779

    Жыл бұрын

    Damn… the blue balls must hurt 😂

  • @josephhoward4697

    @josephhoward4697

    Жыл бұрын

    @@yaboyed5779 Yeah, it was a real kick in the groin. I was looking forward to watching some kind of “Battle of Moscow” ultimate showdown. The worst part is that both Prigozhin and Putin are still alive and well.

  • @yaboyed5779

    @yaboyed5779

    Жыл бұрын

    @@josephhoward4697 yup.

  • @tiadaid
    @tiadaid11 ай бұрын

    1991 was crazy. The Gulf War, and then the fall of the Soviet Union. I wish I was old enough to appreciate seeing history in the making.

  • @jebbroham1776

    @jebbroham1776

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah, when I was born we were just beginning to drive deep into Iraqi lines during Operation Desert Storm, and then when I was 8 months old this unfolded in Moscow. I do remember the Russian invasion of Kosovo and Chechnya, followed by Russia's invasion of Georgia and Ossetia in 2008 but those were mild by comparison.

  • @RedWing88

    @RedWing88

    4 ай бұрын

    Your living in historic times right now.

  • @adamantlyadam5201
    @adamantlyadam5201 Жыл бұрын

    Crazy. I remember watching the evening news with my mom every day as a kid. I was 7 at this time, I remember watching footage of the Persian Gulf War, but I have NO memory of watching these events on the news. It must have been so routine to my young mind, I didn’t understand then how monumental this was.

  • @andreworiez8920

    @andreworiez8920

    10 ай бұрын

    I did... I was 10 and my father was active duty US Navy. I watched in rapt attention as the USSR fell apart.

  • @literaturesim
    @literaturesim Жыл бұрын

    it's pretty neat to live at a time where I can watch events unfold that happened before I was born

  • @Ickie71

    @Ickie71

    Жыл бұрын

    its always been like this!

  • @marcuswatersbonner7394

    @marcuswatersbonner7394

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ickie71 there didn't use to be the technology to capture moving images

  • @spkanava

    @spkanava

    Жыл бұрын

    91

  • @sid2112

    @sid2112

    Жыл бұрын

    I was 16. Dad was worried the nuclear balloon was going to go up. He had me gas up the truck and check the axle.

  • @MrGrace

    @MrGrace

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@sid2112sure. Of course you can outrun a mushroom cloud by truck 😂

  • @brucetharpe762
    @brucetharpe7622 жыл бұрын

    1:45 August 19 15:29 August 20 26:13 August 21 45:25 August 22 54:16 August 23 56:27 August 24 59:20 August 25

  • @93Jubilee

    @93Jubilee

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @spkanava

    @spkanava

    Жыл бұрын

    91

  • @ChairmanMeow1
    @ChairmanMeow110 ай бұрын

    Parts of history are so wild its hard to believe they actually happened sometimes

  • @mrcapybara3579

    @mrcapybara3579

    9 ай бұрын

    meow

  • @ThirdPedalMetal

    @ThirdPedalMetal

    9 ай бұрын

    woof@@mrcapybara3579

  • @CrossbowManD
    @CrossbowManD Жыл бұрын

    Welcome, new viewers.

  • @Horrormaster13
    @Horrormaster13 Жыл бұрын

    This aged pretty well.

  • @Nikowalker007

    @Nikowalker007

    11 ай бұрын

    Hell yeah, to bad it was unsuccessful this time 😄

  • @HaohmaruTachibana

    @HaohmaruTachibana

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Nikowalker007 lol keep dreaming not really gonna happened 😂

  • @Nikowalker007

    @Nikowalker007

    11 ай бұрын

    @@HaohmaruTachibana who knows 😄

  • @skibididopyesdop

    @skibididopyesdop

    10 ай бұрын

    @@HaohmaruTachibanaeventually it will, with a tyrant like that in power

  • @Unknown-vk9oe

    @Unknown-vk9oe

    9 ай бұрын

    this happened because of the cia

  • @isaacshaver6218
    @isaacshaver6218 Жыл бұрын

    I was 12 when this happened, my parents always made me watch the news. I realize now the Berlin wall , The fall of Russia, and the Persian gulf war are historic events that I witnessed. Fukk I'm getting old.

  • @abdelgaderalfallah

    @abdelgaderalfallah

    11 ай бұрын

    Same here bro 😢

  • @fuckcensorship69

    @fuckcensorship69

    11 ай бұрын

    what about the murders of the children at Waco?

  • @jesselivermore2291
    @jesselivermore2291 Жыл бұрын

    the soviet union was such a distant place to me when i was kid that when i heard Gorbachev is in Crimea under house arrest back then in the news i remember thinking "what the hell is a Crimea" Putin was near the stasi kgb office that was torched down.

  • @ThirdPedalMetal
    @ThirdPedalMetal9 ай бұрын

    Not a cell phone in sight. Just living in the moment. Everyone looks so happy.

  • @rabbitramen
    @rabbitramen11 ай бұрын

    I was 30 with a family and beginning Army basic training in South Carolina when our drill sargeants announced that the Soviet Union has fallen and that President Gorbachev was overthrown and under arrest. They also told us that no matter what our MOS was, if we were going to war we were all riflemen first and will be sent into the infantry. We didn't realize that there were plenty of already trained soldiers ready to deploy and that our specialty training would continue, if only abbreviated.

  • @YNL-vy4iy

    @YNL-vy4iy

    10 ай бұрын

    Are you was born in 1961?

  • @jnpohjoinen9827

    @jnpohjoinen9827

    9 ай бұрын

    Secretary Gorbachev was not a president.

  • @nizloc4118
    @nizloc41183 жыл бұрын

    This is crazy nostalgia. As an American (kid at the time). I remember this. And in like the previous 5 years it went from "soviets bad, want to kill us". To "soviets are alright, we're not gonna go to war". To "soviets are cool! We're friends now!" When this happened it was "hope those soviets are ok, theyre cool" Lasted for awhile at least.... hope someday the old politics will go away for good

  • @nizloc4118

    @nizloc4118

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Harvey Smith and vice versa. Perhaps if Russia would stop doing the same to its neighbors.

  • @Ingens_Scherz

    @Ingens_Scherz

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, that's not quite how I remember it. I was 19 at the time and having had two years of elation (Berlin wall coming down and all that good stuff), 1991 brought the Gulf War and this. That optimism quickly turned to the kind of fear I felt as a child in the early 80s: that hard line Soviet communists were about to use their vast armed forces to reset their revolution by any means they decided were necessary, including nuclear weapons. This coup was a nightmare, albeit a brief one.

  • @nizloc4118

    @nizloc4118

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ingens_Scherz out of curiosity, what nationality are you? And I dont mean it to accuse anything, just curious as to what perspective this is coming from

  • @nizloc4118

    @nizloc4118

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Harvey Smith define "opposed". If you mean direct conflict, sure. And from their perspective, it looks like self defense. What was Ukraines provocation, though? And why do you think so many of its neighbors are cozying up with NATO?

  • @nizloc4118

    @nizloc4118

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Harvey Smith so Russia intervenes in a civil war, and claims part of a sovereign country for itself. This isnt "opposing"? And like I asked last time, why exactly is it that Russias neighbors prefer siding with NATO in the first place?

  • @gianniformica8235
    @gianniformica82352 жыл бұрын

    Sad to think where the country has gone since this...

  • @zekeyeager1458

    @zekeyeager1458

    Жыл бұрын

    Well at least it’s there. If the Soviet Union was still around today well, we wouldn’t. Or them. And let me tell you, them LGM-30 Minuteman missles travel pretty darn fast….

  • @User_J9000

    @User_J9000

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zekeyeager1458 So does Sarmat nuke, we most likely would still be here because Gorbachev was cooling down the cold war, US and USSR were making peace.

  • @zekeyeager1458

    @zekeyeager1458

    Жыл бұрын

    @@User_J9000 what I’m saying is that without Gorbachev, there STILL would be a Soviet Union today. Albeit a very irradiated and sparsely populated place at that, as well as the US. Basically just saying that if the USSR was still around, nobody would be…catch my drift?

  • @zekeyeager1458

    @zekeyeager1458

    Жыл бұрын

    @@User_J9000 by the way, the SARMAT is not a nuke. It’s just a missile. Missiles are just delivery devices, like how a gun is to a bullet. A missile can be used in various ways. Over in America, NASA has used the Minutemen missile platform to launch things into orbital space. What you’re probably thinking of and referring to is the warhead. There are various types of warheads that can pack anywhere from a conventional explosion to an earth shaking nuclear detonation.

  • @pauliewalnuts4672

    @pauliewalnuts4672

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zekeyeager1458 when the Soviet Unione fell and Released data on nato the Soviet Unione never had not even one plan to attack it was all jus defensive plans if nato attacked

  • @KamsPoliticalPredictions
    @KamsPoliticalPredictions Жыл бұрын

    KZread picked one hell of a day to recommend this to me

  • @jenniferclark9842

    @jenniferclark9842

    Жыл бұрын

    That is one definition of irony.

  • @goughrmp
    @goughrmp Жыл бұрын

    Mmm I wonder why this appeared in my feed

  • @Mors_Atra_

    @Mors_Atra_

    9 ай бұрын

    The US has no exit strategy in losing its war in ukraine, so the offer this propaganda to infect the feeble minds.

  • @MarKhan111
    @MarKhan111 Жыл бұрын

    4:04 that's one fast tank.

  • @remove_marko

    @remove_marko

    Жыл бұрын

    T-80U of course it's fast

  • @spkanava

    @spkanava

    Жыл бұрын

    91

  • @SirHellNaja

    @SirHellNaja

    Жыл бұрын

    I bet you've never seen a modern MBT before this

  • @dougs4944

    @dougs4944

    9 ай бұрын

    T-80 is what we would have faced in the Gap... Thank God that war didn't (yet) occur.😬

  • @VictorPhnom

    @VictorPhnom

    3 ай бұрын

    Это была последняя разработка советского Союза, танки работающие на русской водке 😂

  • @tea_and_crumpets6919
    @tea_and_crumpets6919 Жыл бұрын

    Ah s***, here we go again.

  • @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid

    @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid

    11 ай бұрын

    Shiatap. You probably don't even know what you're referencing.

  • @tea_and_crumpets6919

    @tea_and_crumpets6919

    11 ай бұрын

    @@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid Like GTA San Andreas, if you talking about the meme, and Wagner mutiny 2023 if you talking about ruzkiez?

  • @SoultyBoiBeats
    @SoultyBoiBeats Жыл бұрын

    While this is happening, Sergei is stuck in space with USSR passport

  • @Nmax

    @Nmax

    2 ай бұрын

    Poor Sergei 😅

  • @nfamus540
    @nfamus540 Жыл бұрын

    History does indeed repeat itself.

  • @alexreznov45

    @alexreznov45

    Жыл бұрын

    “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” - Mark Twain

  • @ackinson
    @ackinson3 жыл бұрын

    Thank You

  • @radix133
    @radix13311 ай бұрын

    I was living in Ireland when this happened...I remember feeling really tense and exhilarated when this was going on.

  • @lucaspham5238
    @lucaspham523810 ай бұрын

    cant wait for part 2

  • @greeneast
    @greeneast2 жыл бұрын

    same thing happened in Afghanistan a year prior, the hardliners returned trying to take the country back. Both the Soviet Union and Afghanistan would eventually fall by 1992.

  • @iggvec5769
    @iggvec576910 ай бұрын

    Interesting, I was too young to remember anything, thank you 👍

  • @eq1373
    @eq13733 жыл бұрын

    And then Metallica played Moscow a month later.

  • @93Jubilee

    @93Jubilee

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great! There is a book with the very interesting theory that Bruce Springsteen's concert in then-East Berlin helped to free the citizens of that country only four or so months later. In a beautiful spontaneous movement, East Berliners fled their side of the city, hanging their keys on trees and finding homes in the free world. Bruce's concert drew hundreds of thousands and inspired many! Wonderful!

  • @bananaempijama

    @bananaempijama

    Жыл бұрын

    And Pantera

  • @michaeloneill7276

    @michaeloneill7276

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bananaempijama p

  • @PASTPRESENTVideo

    @PASTPRESENTVideo

    Жыл бұрын

    Sad but True 😆

  • @spanky9676

    @spanky9676

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bananaempijama and Skid Row

  • @crazydinosaur8945
    @crazydinosaur8945 Жыл бұрын

    06:25 the news backgrounds looks like old movie set paintings.

  • @daddy_1453
    @daddy_1453 Жыл бұрын

    You really appreciate how Gorbachev lost power after this. Whilst he was locked up in Crimea, Yeltsin was fighting and had created a sort of fortress within Moscow itself, the heart of Russian power. Yeltsin was the face seen by the international community and media. He was the man of action, whilst Gorbachev was totally absent. Naturally the Russian people would find one man more reliable a leader than the other. And Gorbachev lost all political respect. The world had overnight moved on from Gorbachev during that week.

  • @vitamc1213

    @vitamc1213

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, and I find that a very sad fact. Considering how much of a man he was to be admired for what he did. How principled he was.

  • @faultboy

    @faultboy

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeltsin choose the alcohol over the people shortly after

  • @anemoiatrippin

    @anemoiatrippin

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeltsin was ready to just give up the morning they found out Gorbachev was "sick" too. He had to be corralled into fighting. Khasbulatov wrote that speech Yeltsin read on the tank. Yeltsin wanted to stay in bed.

  • @d40boundyahoo18

    @d40boundyahoo18

    Жыл бұрын

    @@faultboyYes, which opened the door to Putin and soft fascism to thrive in Russia.

  • @tongobong1

    @tongobong1

    11 ай бұрын

    @@d40boundyahoo18 Putolini is very different from Yeltsin.

  • @SydneyHumanismGroup
    @SydneyHumanismGroup10 ай бұрын

    This ABC News documentary delves into the military coup attempt in the Soviet Union between August 19 and August 25, 1991. It provides a detailed account of these events that unfolded during that fateful week.

  • @counsellor3474
    @counsellor3474 Жыл бұрын

    An interesting end to a most dramatic, perhaps most deceptive & most detestable (to some) revolution. Good narrative, kudos to the producers et am.

  • @thiccsmoke2354
    @thiccsmoke23542 жыл бұрын

    30 years...

  • @russellst.martin4255
    @russellst.martin425510 ай бұрын

    This reminds me of the old adage "Don't bother learning history because nothing ever happens twice".

  • @claudettes9697
    @claudettes96979 ай бұрын

    This is so great. Thank you for posting.

  • @alexanderkingtickle
    @alexanderkingtickle Жыл бұрын

    interesting how this showed up in my suggested videos on 8/18/2022…the day before the 31st anniversary of the coup attempt

  • @RogueSabre
    @RogueSabre Жыл бұрын

    Tedd somehow doesn't open his mouth to speak. Absolutely amazing how a human can produce information without the use of his mouth

  • @ryanB74
    @ryanB74 Жыл бұрын

    Back time, I was visiting Hungary, in Budapest.. In apartment with my family and their old friends (they were over 70' yrs), watching TV.. they said.. 'God, we hope they don't invade us again'.. I was only 16, didn't understood all, but now, I say: we do not let them cross, with every costs we have to endure! (and now, Hungary-Orban.. I don't understand)..

  • @ZiggyMercury
    @ZiggyMercury Жыл бұрын

    I like it that they invited Boris Yeltsin to go with them to where they've arrested Mikhail Gorbachev. So kind of them!

  • @daddy_1453
    @daddy_1453 Жыл бұрын

    Gorbachev lost power in August. Gorbachev died in August.

  • @killerfrank8974

    @killerfrank8974

    Жыл бұрын

    Good observation, and I have to say it's very curious, too.

  • @spkanava

    @spkanava

    Жыл бұрын

    91

  • @BigBoiTurboslav

    @BigBoiTurboslav

    10 ай бұрын

    COINCIDENCE!?!?!?!? I THINK NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @bivianocazares6919
    @bivianocazares691911 ай бұрын

    I REMEMBER THIS

  • @bambimbam8962
    @bambimbam8962 Жыл бұрын

    Who else is watching this after the Russian rebellion

  • @Itailan-Geography

    @Itailan-Geography

    Жыл бұрын

    :) me

  • @SiJullianToGuys

    @SiJullianToGuys

    Жыл бұрын

    Had the same thought

  • @namenameson9065

    @namenameson9065

    9 ай бұрын

    @vyhozshu A failed coup doesn't mean it wasn't an attempted coup. Wagner was trying to capture Shoigu and Garasimov who were scheduled to be in Rostov when they took the city. Their schedules were changed at the last minute. They also had co-conspirators in the Russian government. It was by all means a coup attempt.

  • @chukchee
    @chukchee Жыл бұрын

    Anyone know when the 2nd coup will be? Thank you.

  • @CountCristianWaters
    @CountCristianWaters Жыл бұрын

    The hardliners almost returned back into power. I have a few ideas to add into Gorbachev's viewpoint. 1. Togetherness principle to prevent balkanization of Russian Federation, 2. The American-Chinese political model of 1-2 party system for the Russian Federation.

  • @douglasrobson3875
    @douglasrobson38754 ай бұрын

    I remember my parents made me sit down and watch this news cast. I was 21 and didn’t have a care in the world but my mother explained in detail what was going on and what this could mean for the world. It was scary.

  • @alisharifian535
    @alisharifian53510 ай бұрын

    22:05 Borat used to play a role there, I didn't know that.

  • @starsjosephfrost
    @starsjosephfrost Жыл бұрын

    i know it’s serious but, that T-80U sure is racing cause he’s going fast hahahaha

  • @stevecooper7883
    @stevecooper788310 ай бұрын

    Exactly 32 years ago today

  • @animatorandgtagamer137
    @animatorandgtagamer137 Жыл бұрын

    Everyone gangsta until the tank open fire

  • @DaLavenderhillMob
    @DaLavenderhillMob Жыл бұрын

    The good old days

  • @martinbitter4162
    @martinbitter4162 Жыл бұрын

    The map at 3:37 still shows the GDR.

  • @darwinqpenaflorida3797

    @darwinqpenaflorida3797

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah in 1990 when Germany reunited thanks to falling the wall

  • @madzen112
    @madzen11211 ай бұрын

    Getting briefings from CIA in a situation like this must be such a relief

  • @thatdognotthepuppy5809
    @thatdognotthepuppy580910 ай бұрын

    Time for an encore.

  • @andysorensen1737
    @andysorensen17374 жыл бұрын

    And what a Winter that would be for the Soviet people.

  • @ClassPresidentAlejandro1999

    @ClassPresidentAlejandro1999

    3 жыл бұрын

    What month did this aire?

  • @ErickGainesSanders

    @ErickGainesSanders

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ClassPresidentAlejandro1999 August 19-25, 1991

  • @gnas1897

    @gnas1897

    2 жыл бұрын

    The worst one

  • @spkanava

    @spkanava

    Жыл бұрын

    91

  • @NewGrow-kb1bg
    @NewGrow-kb1bg Жыл бұрын

    “Right wing agents in the shadows”. Very interesting given today’s circumstances

  • @simonyip5978
    @simonyip5978 Жыл бұрын

    I thought that this happened in late 1993. I am sure that I remember tanks firing at buildings in Moscow. Maybe they were different events?

  • @Infernal460

    @Infernal460

    Жыл бұрын

    1991 was the last year of the Soviet Union.

  • @lapieuvre30

    @lapieuvre30

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes that was a different event. That time it was Yeltsin who ordered tanks to fire on the building he himself defended two years before

  • @somedudeonline1936

    @somedudeonline1936

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lapieuvre30 really do you know what the incident is called I would like to learn more?

  • @GrandmasterDinnerRoll

    @GrandmasterDinnerRoll

    Жыл бұрын

    @@somedudeonline1936 the one in 1993 was the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis or the “October Coup.”

  • @somedudeonline1936

    @somedudeonline1936

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GrandmasterDinnerRoll thanks never knew that before so who was trying to start the coup remnants of the soviets?

  • @INDYANDY4C
    @INDYANDY4C4 ай бұрын

    6 months after Desert Storm, the USSR became defunct. 5 million soldiers in the Soviet Army and every Republic was declared independent with Russia being the biggest; their willingness to stand up for “freedom” stopped the coup, but today the reforms are gone and jail or gulag for speaking up are back!

  • @christiansimon3749
    @christiansimon374910 ай бұрын

    I remember this like it was yesterday. So much hope for a people who have suffered so much because of their horrible leaders. 😮

  • @skeletonwguitar4383
    @skeletonwguitar43839 ай бұрын

    The deaths of thoze three ordinary, yet brave and powerful souls died in vein, at least for this decade

  • @7offman
    @7offman9 ай бұрын

    The day the whole world was never the same

  • @madzen112
    @madzen11211 ай бұрын

    Crazy days

  • @keatonlacretin9781
    @keatonlacretin97812 жыл бұрын

    "WE WILL FIGHT TO BRING BACK THE SOVIET UNION!....oh shit we made it worse"

  • @4981t

    @4981t

    Жыл бұрын

    No way 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

  • @hueyfreeman1983
    @hueyfreeman19832 жыл бұрын

    I bet all the Yeltsin supporters are not celebrating now

  • @secretsquirrel6718
    @secretsquirrel671811 ай бұрын

    Dig that giant wooden tape dispenser on Yeltsins deak whwn hes talking to the reporter

  • @ClassPresidentAlejandro1999
    @ClassPresidentAlejandro19993 жыл бұрын

    what month did this aire?

  • @Sam-ik8dd

    @Sam-ik8dd

    3 жыл бұрын

    it never did. wake up.

  • @theduchessofkitty4107

    @theduchessofkitty4107

    2 жыл бұрын

    They would have aired it in the same month of August, and even perhaps at the time the Soviet Union went into the ash heap of history (December 25, 1991).

  • @ClassPresidentAlejandro1999

    @ClassPresidentAlejandro1999

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@theduchessofkitty4107 thanks for the info

  • @spkanava

    @spkanava

    Жыл бұрын

    91

  • @mojewjewjew4420

    @mojewjewjew4420

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Sam-ik8dd wtf?

  • @alfredawomi2340
    @alfredawomi2340 Жыл бұрын

    By the way, is it really Good for any Country in The World for its Secret Policing Police to take over The Goverment?!

  • @sarahnewton2550
    @sarahnewton25504 ай бұрын

    It’s funny how looking back we’re like ‘I miss Boris Yeltsin and even both Bushes - upstanding statesmen compared to what we’ve got today’

  • @lani6647
    @lani66479 ай бұрын

    Yeltsin - How to drink your way through a decade.

  • @thomasdeturk5142
    @thomasdeturk514210 ай бұрын

    30+ years ago today

  • @tsetenkhampa
    @tsetenkhampa2 жыл бұрын

    @26:40 u r fox news anchor same?

  • @hpvspeedmachine4183
    @hpvspeedmachine4183 Жыл бұрын

    22:05 Sacha Baron Cohen was there!

  • @littleantukins4415

    @littleantukins4415

    Жыл бұрын

    Borat man lol

  • @spkanava

    @spkanava

    Жыл бұрын

    91

  • @goldenmoontheyoungest8389
    @goldenmoontheyoungest838911 ай бұрын

    i'm old getting old

  • @johnkeller6063
    @johnkeller606311 ай бұрын

    It shure as hell shock the world

  • @amyhogarten5038
    @amyhogarten5038 Жыл бұрын

    This was the last crisis of this magnitude in the world before the Towers fell down in 2001. Oh well, we had at least (more or less) 10 good years before everything went to hell.

  • @Keatonsings

    @Keatonsings

    Жыл бұрын

    The towers don’t compare to this in any way. They will be remembered as a mere footnote in history.

  • @yauheniheartland8091

    @yauheniheartland8091

    Жыл бұрын

    Sure...all were happy and there were no wars or conflicts on the territories of the former USSR

  • @amyhogarten5038

    @amyhogarten5038

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Keatonsings It was not the towers themselves, but the machinery and mechanisms that those fallen towers enabled. I think that the over 1 million Iraqi and Afghani civilians that were killed as “collateral damage” in those wars would agree. Perhaps a democratically reformed and still intact USSR could have kept those who imitated these conflicts more restrained. At this point it’s all speculation and down stream.

  • @PabloPopova

    @PabloPopova

    Жыл бұрын

    @@yauheniheartland8091 judging by oneself - typical idealistyczne selfish approach

  • @alexm566

    @alexm566

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Keatonsings The destabilization of the middle east was very directly because of the attack on the towers

  • @VinnyOrzechowski
    @VinnyOrzechowski9 ай бұрын

    Preghozin could have had his own documentary

  • @Alberto-mc6yk
    @Alberto-mc6yk7 ай бұрын

    Im worried something like this could happen in the US sooner rather then later. Albeit for "different" reasons. But this is a real concern. I was a pre-schooler when this happened, so i remember little, but what i do remember is my fathers concern. We moved back to Puerto Rico that year. Wa came bavk a year later. I remember in second grade that our globe and maps in school still had USSR still stamped in them. As an early millennial, i remeber much if the changes in my world.

  • @soloar2007
    @soloar200711 ай бұрын

    Diane Sawyer looking fire in that outfit

  • @matthewskudzienski888
    @matthewskudzienski888 Жыл бұрын

    It was the free different countries from the U.S. Alliance Victory by the end of the Cold War and the end of the Persian Gulf war and brought peace

  • @first-thoughtgiver-of-will2456
    @first-thoughtgiver-of-will24569 ай бұрын

    42:35 he knew

  • @oldspicey6001
    @oldspicey600111 ай бұрын

    Diane Sawyer trying to be the main character in that interview was super cringe.

  • @Mors_Atra_

    @Mors_Atra_

    9 ай бұрын

    Adults using language like "cringe" is cringe.

  • @dieglhix
    @dieglhix Жыл бұрын

    Hi from Jun 24th 2023. Coup in Russia is on course as I write this.

  • @millsyinnz

    @millsyinnz

    Жыл бұрын

    Only the 1991 lot didnt chicken out.

  • @jackmason4320
    @jackmason432011 ай бұрын

    Gorbachev's Perestroika and Glasnost policies released an energy Gorbachev couldn't control nor foresee due to him being so naive and weak.

  • @JohnMoore-jz7be
    @JohnMoore-jz7be Жыл бұрын

    I don't like how Prigozhin is in asylum in Belarus sitting along side Putin nuclear weapons station in Belarus now they have Prigozhin there with his troops

  • @namenameson9065

    @namenameson9065

    9 ай бұрын

    lol don't worry, he seems to have missed his flight..

  • @thedoctor0496
    @thedoctor049611 ай бұрын

    I came for cold war Russia, not modern day Russia

  • @andrewburns7400
    @andrewburns7400 Жыл бұрын

    This should be titled 'The Rise of the Oligarch'

  • @johndecker2419
    @johndecker2419 Жыл бұрын

    Sorry, Uncle Roni didn't click to the end

  • @FunnyFallGuy
    @FunnyFallGuy11 ай бұрын

    It's crazy that Diane Sawyer was allowed in to speak with Yeltsin and his associates!

  • @rschloch
    @rschloch10 ай бұрын

    22:40 what are you doing?!?

  • @lizardkingwalking
    @lizardkingwalking10 ай бұрын

    On this day, Putin grew horns on his head and did a Mister Burns laugh

  • @concernedcitizen2766
    @concernedcitizen276611 ай бұрын

    Little did anyone back then know of a guy named Vladimir Putin…

  • @mrtrek64
    @mrtrek643 жыл бұрын

    back when presidents were leaders to be heard and listened to, whether you agree with them or not. Not the side show, clown school we have running our country now.

  • @alexmoore432

    @alexmoore432

    Жыл бұрын

    Right on

  • @vitamc1213

    @vitamc1213

    Жыл бұрын

    And not just your country. These days, most countries have soulless and characterless leaders.

  • @secretsquirrel6718

    @secretsquirrel6718

    11 ай бұрын

    George Bush the neocon former CIA man was the last person who should have been President. Geeze. He was as crooked as a mule trail. That being said. Who dis the Democrats run Dukakis? Yikes.

  • @ZuluGamingSeries

    @ZuluGamingSeries

    11 ай бұрын

    There all sold out to corporations

  • @daddy_1453
    @daddy_1453 Жыл бұрын

    Gorbachev is like a scholar coming to power, like Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Steeped in theory, but doesn't fully understand the hard politics of power.

  • @spkanava

    @spkanava

    Жыл бұрын

    91

  • @poplar6658
    @poplar6658 Жыл бұрын

    When Russia had hope

  • @robtrawick1

    @robtrawick1

    5 ай бұрын

    The problem was Yeltsin was extremely corrupt and he needed to make sure that whomever he picked as his successor would protect him and his family after he left office so he picked Putin. Putin basically finished the work of the 'Committee on the State of the Emergency'. Back then the KGB tried to overtake the country....and by picking Putin he allowed the KGB to take over the country. Once a KGB Agent, ALWAYS a KGB Agent. Notice all the rights that Russians have lost as Putin has cracked down to make sure he will always stay in power. Unfortunately the Russian People will never live in a democracy because they're too weak to fight for it.

  • @viktorkasatkin9996
    @viktorkasatkin99962 ай бұрын

    I was there and was living in Russia after that. That was terrible, what happened Gorbachov sold the country to the western world. That chose broke out shortly after. And struggle that people had to go through is indescribable. You all have no clue what was life like trough the 90s

  • @Nishisumii
    @Nishisumii10 ай бұрын

    Bro had a nice voice crack xd 59:13