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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@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
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
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
Жыл бұрын
Post your photos online please, those would be very valuable to history
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@petrsovicka agree to disagree. Have a good day.
@jeffkardosjr.3825 Жыл бұрын
Boris Yeltsin would attack that same Congress building a couple years later in 1993.
@K.Marx48
Жыл бұрын
Exactly and with lots of deads, but that's democracy apparently, how sweet
@NPCorangebad
Жыл бұрын
@@K.Marx48 He was probably working with the Americans for money.
@stephenmarcus9601
Жыл бұрын
Yeltsin was power hungry. He killed the Union that lead to Oligarchs & the edge of WW3 today.
@anemoiatrippin
Жыл бұрын
Yeh and he would be hailed as the "democratic one" for firing and then firing ON his own parliament smh
@Ickie71
Жыл бұрын
ah i stuck this on today thinking this was the Tank attack that took place i forgot it happened twice!
@jamesmiller11310 ай бұрын
22:05 - good to see Borat kept his eye in as things fell apart
@livethefuture2492 Жыл бұрын
News was different back then...feels like i am really watching history change before my eyes.
@Marco-fn6kg Жыл бұрын
I loved when news was news
@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.
@claytondusauzay674510 ай бұрын
That '90-'91 period was absolutely nuts. Between the Gulf war and this. Crazy times.
@Cooe.
10 ай бұрын
True, but it still ain't got shit on 2020-2022 🤷.
@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
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
7 ай бұрын
the everything since 1900s was crazy with everything that has happened
@sarahnewton2550
4 ай бұрын
@@Cooe.yeah you could have kept 2023 in that! 😂
@josephhoward4697 Жыл бұрын
“History repeats itself; try and you’ll succeed.”
@tmp197
Жыл бұрын
oh so close........keep trying liberators!!!
@jenniferclark9842
Жыл бұрын
No, but to quote Mark Twain, it often rhymes.
@yaboyed5779
Жыл бұрын
Damn… the blue balls must hurt 😂
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@josephhoward4697 yup.
@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
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
4 ай бұрын
Your living in historic times right now.
@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
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 Жыл бұрын
it's pretty neat to live at a time where I can watch events unfold that happened before I was born
@Ickie71
Жыл бұрын
its always been like this!
@marcuswatersbonner7394
Жыл бұрын
@@Ickie71 there didn't use to be the technology to capture moving images
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@sid2112sure. Of course you can outrun a mushroom cloud by truck 😂
@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
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
@ChairmanMeow110 ай бұрын
Parts of history are so wild its hard to believe they actually happened sometimes
@mrcapybara3579
9 ай бұрын
meow
@ThirdPedalMetal
9 ай бұрын
woof@@mrcapybara3579
@CrossbowManD Жыл бұрын
Welcome, new viewers.
@Horrormaster13 Жыл бұрын
This aged pretty well.
@Nikowalker007
11 ай бұрын
Hell yeah, to bad it was unsuccessful this time 😄
@HaohmaruTachibana
11 ай бұрын
@@Nikowalker007 lol keep dreaming not really gonna happened 😂
@Nikowalker007
11 ай бұрын
@@HaohmaruTachibana who knows 😄
@skibididopyesdop
10 ай бұрын
@@HaohmaruTachibanaeventually it will, with a tyrant like that in power
@Unknown-vk9oe
9 ай бұрын
this happened because of the cia
@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
11 ай бұрын
Same here bro 😢
@fuckcensorship69
11 ай бұрын
what about the murders of the children at Waco?
@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.
@ThirdPedalMetal9 ай бұрын
Not a cell phone in sight. Just living in the moment. Everyone looks so happy.
@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
10 ай бұрын
Are you was born in 1961?
@jnpohjoinen9827
9 ай бұрын
Secretary Gorbachev was not a president.
@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
2 жыл бұрын
@Harvey Smith and vice versa. Perhaps if Russia would stop doing the same to its neighbors.
@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
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
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
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?
@gianniformica82352 жыл бұрын
Sad to think where the country has gone since this...
@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
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
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
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
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 Жыл бұрын
KZread picked one hell of a day to recommend this to me
@jenniferclark9842
Жыл бұрын
That is one definition of irony.
@goughrmp Жыл бұрын
Mmm I wonder why this appeared in my feed
@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 Жыл бұрын
4:04 that's one fast tank.
@remove_marko
Жыл бұрын
T-80U of course it's fast
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
@SirHellNaja
Жыл бұрын
I bet you've never seen a modern MBT before this
@dougs4944
9 ай бұрын
T-80 is what we would have faced in the Gap... Thank God that war didn't (yet) occur.😬
@VictorPhnom
3 ай бұрын
Это была последняя разработка советского Союза, танки работающие на русской водке 😂
@tea_and_crumpets6919 Жыл бұрын
Ah s***, here we go again.
@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid
11 ай бұрын
Shiatap. You probably don't even know what you're referencing.
@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 Жыл бұрын
While this is happening, Sergei is stuck in space with USSR passport
@Nmax
2 ай бұрын
Poor Sergei 😅
@nfamus540 Жыл бұрын
History does indeed repeat itself.
@alexreznov45
Жыл бұрын
“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” - Mark Twain
@ackinson3 жыл бұрын
Thank You
@radix13311 ай бұрын
I was living in Ireland when this happened...I remember feeling really tense and exhilarated when this was going on.
@lucaspham523810 ай бұрын
cant wait for part 2
@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.
@iggvec576910 ай бұрын
Interesting, I was too young to remember anything, thank you 👍
@eq13733 жыл бұрын
And then Metallica played Moscow a month later.
@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
Жыл бұрын
And Pantera
@michaeloneill7276
Жыл бұрын
@@bananaempijama p
@PASTPRESENTVideo
Жыл бұрын
Sad but True 😆
@spanky9676
Жыл бұрын
@@bananaempijama and Skid Row
@crazydinosaur8945 Жыл бұрын
06:25 the news backgrounds looks like old movie set paintings.
@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
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
Жыл бұрын
Yeltsin choose the alcohol over the people shortly after
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@faultboyYes, which opened the door to Putin and soft fascism to thrive in Russia.
@tongobong1
11 ай бұрын
@@d40boundyahoo18 Putolini is very different from Yeltsin.
@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 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.
@thiccsmoke23542 жыл бұрын
30 years...
@russellst.martin425510 ай бұрын
This reminds me of the old adage "Don't bother learning history because nothing ever happens twice".
@claudettes96979 ай бұрын
This is so great. Thank you for posting.
@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 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 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 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 Жыл бұрын
Gorbachev lost power in August. Gorbachev died in August.
@killerfrank8974
Жыл бұрын
Good observation, and I have to say it's very curious, too.
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
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@BigBoiTurboslav
10 ай бұрын
COINCIDENCE!?!?!?!? I THINK NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@bivianocazares691911 ай бұрын
I REMEMBER THIS
@bambimbam8962 Жыл бұрын
Who else is watching this after the Russian rebellion
@Itailan-Geography
Жыл бұрын
:) me
@SiJullianToGuys
Жыл бұрын
Had the same thought
@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 Жыл бұрын
Anyone know when the 2nd coup will be? Thank you.
@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.
@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.
@alisharifian53510 ай бұрын
22:05 Borat used to play a role there, I didn't know that.
@starsjosephfrost Жыл бұрын
i know it’s serious but, that T-80U sure is racing cause he’s going fast hahahaha
@stevecooper788310 ай бұрын
Exactly 32 years ago today
@animatorandgtagamer137 Жыл бұрын
Everyone gangsta until the tank open fire
@DaLavenderhillMob Жыл бұрын
The good old days
@martinbitter4162 Жыл бұрын
The map at 3:37 still shows the GDR.
@darwinqpenaflorida3797
Жыл бұрын
Yeah in 1990 when Germany reunited thanks to falling the wall
@madzen11211 ай бұрын
Getting briefings from CIA in a situation like this must be such a relief
@thatdognotthepuppy580910 ай бұрын
Time for an encore.
@andysorensen17374 жыл бұрын
And what a Winter that would be for the Soviet people.
@ClassPresidentAlejandro1999
3 жыл бұрын
What month did this aire?
@ErickGainesSanders
2 жыл бұрын
@@ClassPresidentAlejandro1999 August 19-25, 1991
@gnas1897
2 жыл бұрын
The worst one
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
@NewGrow-kb1bg Жыл бұрын
“Right wing agents in the shadows”. Very interesting given today’s circumstances
@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
Жыл бұрын
1991 was the last year of the Soviet Union.
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@lapieuvre30 really do you know what the incident is called I would like to learn more?
@GrandmasterDinnerRoll
Жыл бұрын
@@somedudeonline1936 the one in 1993 was the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis or the “October Coup.”
@somedudeonline1936
Жыл бұрын
@@GrandmasterDinnerRoll thanks never knew that before so who was trying to start the coup remnants of the soviets?
@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!
@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. 😮
@skeletonwguitar43839 ай бұрын
The deaths of thoze three ordinary, yet brave and powerful souls died in vein, at least for this decade
@7offman9 ай бұрын
The day the whole world was never the same
@madzen11211 ай бұрын
Crazy days
@keatonlacretin97812 жыл бұрын
"WE WILL FIGHT TO BRING BACK THE SOVIET UNION!....oh shit we made it worse"
@4981t
Жыл бұрын
No way 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
@hueyfreeman19832 жыл бұрын
I bet all the Yeltsin supporters are not celebrating now
@secretsquirrel671811 ай бұрын
Dig that giant wooden tape dispenser on Yeltsins deak whwn hes talking to the reporter
@ClassPresidentAlejandro19993 жыл бұрын
what month did this aire?
@Sam-ik8dd
3 жыл бұрын
it never did. wake up.
@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
2 жыл бұрын
@@theduchessofkitty4107 thanks for the info
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
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@mojewjewjew4420
Жыл бұрын
@@Sam-ik8dd wtf?
@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?!
@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’
@lani66479 ай бұрын
Yeltsin - How to drink your way through a decade.
@thomasdeturk514210 ай бұрын
30+ years ago today
@tsetenkhampa2 жыл бұрын
@26:40 u r fox news anchor same?
@hpvspeedmachine4183 Жыл бұрын
22:05 Sacha Baron Cohen was there!
@littleantukins4415
Жыл бұрын
Borat man lol
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
@goldenmoontheyoungest838911 ай бұрын
i'm old getting old
@johnkeller606311 ай бұрын
It shure as hell shock the world
@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
Жыл бұрын
The towers don’t compare to this in any way. They will be remembered as a mere footnote in history.
@yauheniheartland8091
Жыл бұрын
Sure...all were happy and there were no wars or conflicts on the territories of the former USSR
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@yauheniheartland8091 judging by oneself - typical idealistyczne selfish approach
@alexm566
Жыл бұрын
@@Keatonsings The destabilization of the middle east was very directly because of the attack on the towers
@VinnyOrzechowski9 ай бұрын
Preghozin could have had his own documentary
@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.
@soloar200711 ай бұрын
Diane Sawyer looking fire in that outfit
@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-will24569 ай бұрын
42:35 he knew
@oldspicey600111 ай бұрын
Diane Sawyer trying to be the main character in that interview was super cringe.
@Mors_Atra_
9 ай бұрын
Adults using language like "cringe" is cringe.
@dieglhix Жыл бұрын
Hi from Jun 24th 2023. Coup in Russia is on course as I write this.
@millsyinnz
Жыл бұрын
Only the 1991 lot didnt chicken out.
@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 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
9 ай бұрын
lol don't worry, he seems to have missed his flight..
@thedoctor049611 ай бұрын
I came for cold war Russia, not modern day Russia
@andrewburns7400 Жыл бұрын
This should be titled 'The Rise of the Oligarch'
@johndecker2419 Жыл бұрын
Sorry, Uncle Roni didn't click to the end
@FunnyFallGuy11 ай бұрын
It's crazy that Diane Sawyer was allowed in to speak with Yeltsin and his associates!
@rschloch10 ай бұрын
22:40 what are you doing?!?
@lizardkingwalking10 ай бұрын
On this day, Putin grew horns on his head and did a Mister Burns laugh
@concernedcitizen276611 ай бұрын
Little did anyone back then know of a guy named Vladimir Putin…
@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
Жыл бұрын
Right on
@vitamc1213
Жыл бұрын
And not just your country. These days, most countries have soulless and characterless leaders.
@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
11 ай бұрын
There all sold out to corporations
@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
Жыл бұрын
91
@poplar6658 Жыл бұрын
When Russia had hope
@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.
@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
Пікірлер: 603
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
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
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
Жыл бұрын
Post your photos online please, those would be very valuable to history
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@petrsovicka agree to disagree. Have a good day.
Boris Yeltsin would attack that same Congress building a couple years later in 1993.
@K.Marx48
Жыл бұрын
Exactly and with lots of deads, but that's democracy apparently, how sweet
@NPCorangebad
Жыл бұрын
@@K.Marx48 He was probably working with the Americans for money.
@stephenmarcus9601
Жыл бұрын
Yeltsin was power hungry. He killed the Union that lead to Oligarchs & the edge of WW3 today.
@anemoiatrippin
Жыл бұрын
Yeh and he would be hailed as the "democratic one" for firing and then firing ON his own parliament smh
@Ickie71
Жыл бұрын
ah i stuck this on today thinking this was the Tank attack that took place i forgot it happened twice!
22:05 - good to see Borat kept his eye in as things fell apart
News was different back then...feels like i am really watching history change before my eyes.
I loved when news was news
Peter Jennings had an incredible skill in delivering straight facts while at the same time unapologetically calling it like he saw it.
That '90-'91 period was absolutely nuts. Between the Gulf war and this. Crazy times.
@Cooe.
10 ай бұрын
True, but it still ain't got shit on 2020-2022 🤷.
@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
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
7 ай бұрын
the everything since 1900s was crazy with everything that has happened
@sarahnewton2550
4 ай бұрын
@@Cooe.yeah you could have kept 2023 in that! 😂
“History repeats itself; try and you’ll succeed.”
@tmp197
Жыл бұрын
oh so close........keep trying liberators!!!
@jenniferclark9842
Жыл бұрын
No, but to quote Mark Twain, it often rhymes.
@yaboyed5779
Жыл бұрын
Damn… the blue balls must hurt 😂
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@josephhoward4697 yup.
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
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
4 ай бұрын
Your living in historic times right now.
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
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.
it's pretty neat to live at a time where I can watch events unfold that happened before I was born
@Ickie71
Жыл бұрын
its always been like this!
@marcuswatersbonner7394
Жыл бұрын
@@Ickie71 there didn't use to be the technology to capture moving images
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@sid2112sure. Of course you can outrun a mushroom cloud by truck 😂
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
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
Parts of history are so wild its hard to believe they actually happened sometimes
@mrcapybara3579
9 ай бұрын
meow
@ThirdPedalMetal
9 ай бұрын
woof@@mrcapybara3579
Welcome, new viewers.
This aged pretty well.
@Nikowalker007
11 ай бұрын
Hell yeah, to bad it was unsuccessful this time 😄
@HaohmaruTachibana
11 ай бұрын
@@Nikowalker007 lol keep dreaming not really gonna happened 😂
@Nikowalker007
11 ай бұрын
@@HaohmaruTachibana who knows 😄
@skibididopyesdop
10 ай бұрын
@@HaohmaruTachibanaeventually it will, with a tyrant like that in power
@Unknown-vk9oe
9 ай бұрын
this happened because of the cia
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
11 ай бұрын
Same here bro 😢
@fuckcensorship69
11 ай бұрын
what about the murders of the children at Waco?
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.
Not a cell phone in sight. Just living in the moment. Everyone looks so happy.
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
10 ай бұрын
Are you was born in 1961?
@jnpohjoinen9827
9 ай бұрын
Secretary Gorbachev was not a president.
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
2 жыл бұрын
@Harvey Smith and vice versa. Perhaps if Russia would stop doing the same to its neighbors.
@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
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
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
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?
Sad to think where the country has gone since this...
@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
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
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
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
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
KZread picked one hell of a day to recommend this to me
@jenniferclark9842
Жыл бұрын
That is one definition of irony.
Mmm I wonder why this appeared in my feed
@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.
4:04 that's one fast tank.
@remove_marko
Жыл бұрын
T-80U of course it's fast
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
@SirHellNaja
Жыл бұрын
I bet you've never seen a modern MBT before this
@dougs4944
9 ай бұрын
T-80 is what we would have faced in the Gap... Thank God that war didn't (yet) occur.😬
@VictorPhnom
3 ай бұрын
Это была последняя разработка советского Союза, танки работающие на русской водке 😂
Ah s***, here we go again.
@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid
11 ай бұрын
Shiatap. You probably don't even know what you're referencing.
@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?
While this is happening, Sergei is stuck in space with USSR passport
@Nmax
2 ай бұрын
Poor Sergei 😅
History does indeed repeat itself.
@alexreznov45
Жыл бұрын
“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” - Mark Twain
Thank You
I was living in Ireland when this happened...I remember feeling really tense and exhilarated when this was going on.
cant wait for part 2
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.
Interesting, I was too young to remember anything, thank you 👍
And then Metallica played Moscow a month later.
@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
Жыл бұрын
And Pantera
@michaeloneill7276
Жыл бұрын
@@bananaempijama p
@PASTPRESENTVideo
Жыл бұрын
Sad but True 😆
@spanky9676
Жыл бұрын
@@bananaempijama and Skid Row
06:25 the news backgrounds looks like old movie set paintings.
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
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
Жыл бұрын
Yeltsin choose the alcohol over the people shortly after
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@faultboyYes, which opened the door to Putin and soft fascism to thrive in Russia.
@tongobong1
11 ай бұрын
@@d40boundyahoo18 Putolini is very different from Yeltsin.
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.
An interesting end to a most dramatic, perhaps most deceptive & most detestable (to some) revolution. Good narrative, kudos to the producers et am.
30 years...
This reminds me of the old adage "Don't bother learning history because nothing ever happens twice".
This is so great. Thank you for posting.
interesting how this showed up in my suggested videos on 8/18/2022…the day before the 31st anniversary of the coup attempt
Tedd somehow doesn't open his mouth to speak. Absolutely amazing how a human can produce information without the use of his mouth
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)..
I like it that they invited Boris Yeltsin to go with them to where they've arrested Mikhail Gorbachev. So kind of them!
Gorbachev lost power in August. Gorbachev died in August.
@killerfrank8974
Жыл бұрын
Good observation, and I have to say it's very curious, too.
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
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@BigBoiTurboslav
10 ай бұрын
COINCIDENCE!?!?!?!? I THINK NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I REMEMBER THIS
Who else is watching this after the Russian rebellion
@Itailan-Geography
Жыл бұрын
:) me
@SiJullianToGuys
Жыл бұрын
Had the same thought
@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.
Anyone know when the 2nd coup will be? Thank you.
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.
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.
22:05 Borat used to play a role there, I didn't know that.
i know it’s serious but, that T-80U sure is racing cause he’s going fast hahahaha
Exactly 32 years ago today
Everyone gangsta until the tank open fire
The good old days
The map at 3:37 still shows the GDR.
@darwinqpenaflorida3797
Жыл бұрын
Yeah in 1990 when Germany reunited thanks to falling the wall
Getting briefings from CIA in a situation like this must be such a relief
Time for an encore.
And what a Winter that would be for the Soviet people.
@ClassPresidentAlejandro1999
3 жыл бұрын
What month did this aire?
@ErickGainesSanders
2 жыл бұрын
@@ClassPresidentAlejandro1999 August 19-25, 1991
@gnas1897
2 жыл бұрын
The worst one
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
“Right wing agents in the shadows”. Very interesting given today’s circumstances
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
Жыл бұрын
1991 was the last year of the Soviet Union.
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@lapieuvre30 really do you know what the incident is called I would like to learn more?
@GrandmasterDinnerRoll
Жыл бұрын
@@somedudeonline1936 the one in 1993 was the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis or the “October Coup.”
@somedudeonline1936
Жыл бұрын
@@GrandmasterDinnerRoll thanks never knew that before so who was trying to start the coup remnants of the soviets?
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!
I remember this like it was yesterday. So much hope for a people who have suffered so much because of their horrible leaders. 😮
The deaths of thoze three ordinary, yet brave and powerful souls died in vein, at least for this decade
The day the whole world was never the same
Crazy days
"WE WILL FIGHT TO BRING BACK THE SOVIET UNION!....oh shit we made it worse"
@4981t
Жыл бұрын
No way 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
I bet all the Yeltsin supporters are not celebrating now
Dig that giant wooden tape dispenser on Yeltsins deak whwn hes talking to the reporter
what month did this aire?
@Sam-ik8dd
3 жыл бұрын
it never did. wake up.
@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
2 жыл бұрын
@@theduchessofkitty4107 thanks for the info
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
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@mojewjewjew4420
Жыл бұрын
@@Sam-ik8dd wtf?
By the way, is it really Good for any Country in The World for its Secret Policing Police to take over The Goverment?!
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’
Yeltsin - How to drink your way through a decade.
30+ years ago today
@26:40 u r fox news anchor same?
22:05 Sacha Baron Cohen was there!
@littleantukins4415
Жыл бұрын
Borat man lol
@spkanava
Жыл бұрын
91
i'm old getting old
It shure as hell shock the world
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
Жыл бұрын
The towers don’t compare to this in any way. They will be remembered as a mere footnote in history.
@yauheniheartland8091
Жыл бұрын
Sure...all were happy and there were no wars or conflicts on the territories of the former USSR
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@yauheniheartland8091 judging by oneself - typical idealistyczne selfish approach
@alexm566
Жыл бұрын
@@Keatonsings The destabilization of the middle east was very directly because of the attack on the towers
Preghozin could have had his own documentary
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.
Diane Sawyer looking fire in that outfit
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
42:35 he knew
Diane Sawyer trying to be the main character in that interview was super cringe.
@Mors_Atra_
9 ай бұрын
Adults using language like "cringe" is cringe.
Hi from Jun 24th 2023. Coup in Russia is on course as I write this.
@millsyinnz
Жыл бұрын
Only the 1991 lot didnt chicken out.
Gorbachev's Perestroika and Glasnost policies released an energy Gorbachev couldn't control nor foresee due to him being so naive and weak.
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
9 ай бұрын
lol don't worry, he seems to have missed his flight..
I came for cold war Russia, not modern day Russia
This should be titled 'The Rise of the Oligarch'
Sorry, Uncle Roni didn't click to the end
It's crazy that Diane Sawyer was allowed in to speak with Yeltsin and his associates!
22:40 what are you doing?!?
On this day, Putin grew horns on his head and did a Mister Burns laugh
Little did anyone back then know of a guy named Vladimir Putin…
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
Жыл бұрын
Right on
@vitamc1213
Жыл бұрын
And not just your country. These days, most countries have soulless and characterless leaders.
@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
11 ай бұрын
There all sold out to corporations
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
Жыл бұрын
91
When Russia had hope
@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.
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
Bro had a nice voice crack xd 59:13