The Soviet Coup: Day One, August 19th 1991
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- On August 19th 1991, the Soviet people woke to news of an attempt to overthrow President Mikhail Gorbachev, the architect of "glasnost" and "perestroika". The coup, led by the so-called "Gang of Eight", brought Red Army tanks onto the streets of Moscow. Russian leader Boris Yeltsin led attempts to rebuff the coup plotters, and would go on to become the dominant force in Moscow as the Soviet Union crumbled and a restored Gorbachev lost his grip on power. Here you can watch Simon's Emmy-nominated coverage from Moscow on Day One of the coup for "World Monitor", the nightly newscast then produced for The Discovery Channel by The Christian Science Monitor newspaper.
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
They will use the same excuse for Putin un 2022.
I could have sworn Gorbachev died at some point during the pandemic, guess it's a false memory.
@@penskepc2374 Mandela Effect
@@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?
@@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.
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He had Czarist background in youth.
lol 😂 he couldn’t find a new successor so he just picked Putin to be the new leader
@@bobbyhill5067he’s not even sober here.
It's hard to believe this happened 30 years ago. Great piece of history.
Now this happening now
@Legalize Raping Russian Broads In America you are fucking sick
@@patricksimpson9225 that will probably happen in 2025, after trump Will become president again
It will repeat itself in time to come and we won't have to wait years for it.
It's gonna happen again soon
....and finally, Yeltsin died in 2007, and Gorbachev is still alive in 2018. 😂😂😂
Ja ustal, ja yhozhu!
2020 is still alive lol he never dies
imagine he could be leader of the soviet union for over 40 years it would've been a record lol
@@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.
It's because yetsin was an alchogolic, and maybe gorbachovs is queen Elizabeth's student?????? They are both immortal
"Yeltsin is our only hope"
i wonder if she tought the same, once her son was drafted into the army to fight in chechnya.
MrAKNerd Well, her husband already fought a disastrous war in Afghanistan so
so give up your son for another war?
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
A sad thought indeed.
superdog logan yup, it sure is. welp, that's life.
Gorbachev is still alive in 2022, and still gives interviews. But the gang of 8 that tried to overthrow him are all deceased.
Tried?
unfortunately that vile human being is still alive
@@libertyforall5764 yes, tried. He was still unjustly couped though although libs don't want to admit it.
@@zenothemeano4381 libs?
@@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?
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.
Huh, some thing never change.
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
@@Destroyer2150 Lol, nice propaganda. Russian soldiers in 2022 invaded Ukraine due to the Neo-Nazis attacking the Donbas which many pro-Russian citizens resided.
@@Iberny3 Yeah, and Putin wants World Peace and is innocent of any atrocities commited in Ukraine.
Get your sources straight, or don't...
@@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.
Must have occurred early in the day as Yeltsin isn’t even buzzed yet.
I believe his alcoholism started after the dissolution of the USSR.
Laughed so much
@@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
@@kaldunaaa No, prior to that. It only came into prominent focus during his Presidency of Russia.
Yeltsin woke up with a buzz!
"Yeltsin is our only hope"- meanwhile Yeltsin becomes the worst thing that ever happened to Russia.
Yeltsin put Putin in power
@@nelsonbladimir6671 They do seem very different tho -- don't they ?
@@whatservicetojoin8593 Putin is Sober
@@whatservicetojoin8593 yeah putin does not drink that is the difference
@@nelsonbladimir6671 he supported him, but he would be for sure against him if he would know the upcoming reality
“Due to his state of health” he will outlive Putin.
Let's drink to that!
@@alexanders.170 said Boris Yeltsin
I will comeback to this comment if putin will pass earlier than gorbachev
Unless someone kills Putin he won't outlive him. Putin is in great shape you know
@@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.
Not at the top
@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.
@@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
The soviets never claimed to have achieved communism. It's more accurate to say the Bolshevik party collapsed.
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.
Yeah, more historic was de devastation this shit Yeltsin along with us did to Russia
What a gensius
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.
@@Hilaire_Balrog like today
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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.
And here we are in March 2022. How weak is Putin right now? Interesting times.
@@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.
@@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.
@@frenzalrhomb6919 I've heard of him, or better said I read about him. However my name does not relate to him.
@@knispelwedges427 ,- Yeah I your name doesn't relate to him, it's just very similar, that's all.
"...those who have the normal, honest hearts of Russian citizens will never allow the army to fight its own people."
Yeltsin in 1993: lol
Putin 2022:
Not aging well...
Well turn it on the Republics instead
Hello Maidan, this is Mariupol
Imagine just driving to work and seeing a bunch military tanks drive alongside you
Just another Tuesday in Mother Russia.
The best part was how nonchalant it was. Tanks committing a coup alongside and at the same pace as cars going to the office.
@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 Yeah, you think your boss is gonna give a day-off because of a government collapse? 🤣
If morons keep voting Democrat, this will be common place in america soon, too. Democrats already want to abolish the Bill of Rights.
and the economy is about to collapse
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.
Electing such a drunk was the worst mistake
luckily Putin is bringing back the Soviet Union
Way better than USSR or what we have now.
@@oceanwavesandcocaine1129 with taking Ukraine and...what other countries now? he cant touch the baltic countries or Poland
Enter Winston Churchill.
@@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.
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.
and the chef of Kadyrov. Leader of one of two most powerful clans in Putin's elite, the only rival to Patrushev-Naryshkin coalition
Wow!
Which work soviet ppl had?
Watching during 2023 coup. Anyone else?
it was a complete nothingburger
@@ramudasanjuuit made the ruble collapse… and gave us some quality kino
no, the video was taken down and never seen again
Traitors are more dangerous than the most powerful enemy.
Baran
And the West is full of them.
They are called liberals and progressives.
Atheist Marxist Globalist traitors the whole lot of them.
William Gill_Esq.
Yeah right, people you disagrees with were all traitors. That is the spirit of true Freedom and Democracy!
Alexlaza
You're a traitor.
By just being the effeminate metro Leftist SJW that you are.
Yea like Trump and his cronies. Treasonous bastards who colluded with a foreign power to influence an American election.
William Gill_Esq. Lincoln should’ve hung all you treasonous hillbillies. Fuck trump. Fuck Russia. Flynn, manafort, zwaan, kushner, trump are going to prison.
Ah yes his poor health he’s literally still alive in 2022 😂😂
At the ripe ol age of 91
no
I love that this happened in August. Cause not even Russia would invade Russia in winter.
Actually the most critical moments of Russia's history happened in August
@@bellami86 October revolution?
@@BETTER.ART.read about what happened in august 1917😏
@@NeistoviySampay нет, напряги мозги, чтобы погуглить
@@NeistoviySampay никто не виноват что тебя забанили в гугле
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.
What an important archive. Thanks 4 shearing
"The Economy cannot be developt with tanks", well said!
Every government employee and civil servants brain in the world would hear that and respond with 'SyntaxError'
If only Putin understood this!
Thats why USA war budget is highest than all country together spend for defence
@@kelvinekline5950 5 percent of GDP spending is high?
@@kelvinekline5950 Huh? So you telling me that Google, Apple, Tesla, Chrysler etc are developed by tanks.
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.
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
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 ;)
The soviet union failed and Glasnost and Perestroika were necessary as the union was highly in debt and couldnt sustain any longer
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
@@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.
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--
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...
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.
*”IT’S JUST A PRANK, COMRADE!”*
What a funny prank
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I wish they hadn't cut the part where Yeltsin demanded the safe return of the Gorbachevs. That was so inspiring.
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
He only did that to appear like a kind leader, in reality he wanted Gorbachev for hid own agenda
Yeltsin was a western sock puppet and a drunk.
@@whythelongface64 commie
@@tupsutumppu No, you're a cuckold, watching the bourgeoisie fk the economy people like you and I had built.
And it looks like it's happening again. June 23rd, 2023
НЕ СМЕШНО, дальше пытайся быть выдающимся в обществе, обиженка
Fun fact, all the way to the right of Yeltsin is Zolotov, who is now the head of the Russian national guard
Really
Most of the top guys right now are the young officers of this time
@@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 !
Russian nationalism really is a weird thing
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.
@ELDEANTI Yes, but the OP means Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan among others
@@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.
@@edmundwoolliams1240 Ukraine also didn't want to be part of the new union iirc
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.
Russia would not be larger. Russia (officially The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) was only one of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics.
The one moment Yeltsin was sober.
I remember being up all night watching this in Seattle.
Ready for the sequel!
This and the first Gulf War are among my earliest memories...
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)
Mine too, im 34 now.
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.
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"The economy cannot be developed by tanks." so true words. I wish Putin had also learnt this.
@Анастасия Борисова And that means that you have to send tanks there????
What...?
@Анастасия Борисова change the don to dum in donbass and that's what you are
@Анастасия Борисова And that means you have to kill Russians in Ukraine????
Funny because Yeltsin porceeded to detroy the Russian economy and turn it into an oligarchy
You: Why are you recommending this now?
Google: *Give it a few days*
Рекомендации ютаба радуют, как и всегда
Oh, Algorithm, what have you brought us today? A message for the future?
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.
Powerful analogy......the people who drive themselves to power seem fuelled by that energy.....
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.
@@kguy6635 I think you missed the point amigo, he is agreeing with you.
"The economy cannot be developed with tanks." I was in highschool when this aired.
In the 1970s, roughly 44% of hard currency sales were through tanks.
I was five. Too young to remember. Now we are almost senior citizens 😅
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.
Prigozhin didn’t even make it to the Kremlin :(
Google decided today was a good day to revive this video.
3:13 that man in a black suit is now the head of repression service - "rosgvardia" (national guard). How things change.
When everyone was panicking about the communist coup, they failed to see the capitalist coup unfolding before them.
Just remember: you asked for this.
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Fascinating to recap, given recent events. I can’t say what to make of it though.
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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.
So is the Russian Federation, there are still countless Asian and Caucasian ethnicities under Russian sovereignty
@@ninny65 yes, but Russia is named after an ethnicity. Those are minorities.
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.
@@danijaldblr3388 yes. This was done deliberately in Africa to foster internal conflict
@@danijaldblr3388 africa want best choice
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.
Interesting
Well this is a load of misinformation
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
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.
@@againsttheriver3657 if there were so many in favor of keeping the Soviet Union, why isn’t it around anymore?
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.
Freed Belak Thanks for that analysis mate
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.
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.
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.
Another brainwashed Commie crying about the loss of their empire, I'm sure the Baltic people & Eastern Europeans would grin at your shit.
1991: Gorbachev has poor health
(and he still is alive 30 years later)
@@michaely9900 Gorbachov might have had good intentions but he ruined a Superpower and brought misery to over 250milion people.
Dam, I thought it was on and then I saw the date. Bummer.
Stalin : I'm disappointed
I remember this I was 15
I remember thinking must be some chernoble when viewing this with snowing looking on screen
thanks youtube this was very interesting
if you ever feel stupid just remember Russian military fired at its own Parliament Building lmao
Doesn't make some Americans any less stupid.
lol... sounds like someone is living in your head RENT FREE, eyelean.
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.
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.
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.
"Перемен
Требовали наши сердца
Ну а теперь
Поедим мы дружно говна"
Winds of Change.
thank you.how at age 66 have I never seen this?
I'm shocked there was a rush hour.
Freedom doesn't benefit the authoritarians.
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.
So smooth..
My God, did they know Yeltsin was a boob? A disastrous one at that.
Seeing this now I wonder how close Putin was to the head of the KGB back then. The KGB always hated democratic reforms.
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.
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.
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Wow. This was a few days before I was born and it looks so damn old. Where has time gone...
No one mentions the destruction Yeltsin brought on that same building he's "Defending" Facism usually comes as a defender of freedom
The building filled with communists trying another coup. They got what they deserved.
@@conveyor2 Another coup? They were civilians being fired on by their own military. Yeltsin took part in a coup not the other way round
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.
@@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20 I didn't call him Fascist but you just did
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
And apparently Russia still likes being isolated. 🤷♂️
it's not Russia's fault the West hates her.
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@@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.......
Can’t wait to watch this happen again live on 2022
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?
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.
@@bidenwearstrumpscrappypamp1829 I don't understand. What's the WW3 mockumentary?
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.
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.
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.
The Circle of Life
@@aetiologist3973 yes
Here's hoping for a sequel.
I can live, with or without you
Good to know nothing really changed on the inside just got a nice face lift for a few decades
Ironic how many people disliked Gorbachov because he introduced liberal policies in the SU and then it just became an authoritarian capitalists nation
Hard to believe this happened in my lifetime wow
Thanks CZcams recommended
KGB officer: Yeah I kinda felt a little bad about silencing the media, but... man, what a rush 🤣
It’s crazy I remember that lame crowd chanting “yeltsin! Yeltsin!” Softly. Guess I saw it in 1991.
wow top notch journalism, doesnt even compare to the tripe they make nowadays
It's july 12, 2021. Still around. 👍👍👍
I love how people just keep driving around among the armored vehicles.
Like it’s a normal thing.
2022 or 2023 the fall of Putin?
YT algo remains undefeated
March, 2022. Swan Lake sounds lovely right about now
Щас все эти люди говорят "а мы его не выбирали, он сам силой власть взял"
хехехе
Кого его?
Много людей думали что Ельцин просто вернёт Горбачева, они не хотели чтобы именно Ельцин стал президентом
So much of this is still true to this day.
Time for a sequel
This news is so high quality.
Remember when news was like this and not cut up and set up to serve a narrative
how come I've never heard of this?
oh boy... and the youtube algorithm has brought us all here... will history repeat itself?
Damn this in your recommendations too?
Just think...some of those tanks might be burning wreckage in Ukraine right now
absolute disaster, not because the USSR was good, but because of what came after
2:33 He's got some badass secret service types doing his security.
So much for the Bolshevik Revolution.
Boris Yeltsin had Czarist background on joining Communist Party in 1970s. He was bourgeois. Difficult entry. But took revenge from Communist Party in 1989.