As a kid who was born in USSR, I can tell you one thing, all Soviet Union ppl scared of the government. Because if you do something against them, not just you, but your family is in danger right away. We even have a jokes like, if you go vs them, you and your last name no more exist… there would be some who wouldn’t agree with me, but they would not do anything or say anything about how government is just super corrupt…
It's unlikely the USSR could have survived for long, even if the coup didn't happen. The economy was already beyond repair before Gorby was put in charge of the sinking ship. If the coup didn't happen I'd give the USSR maybe two years before it would be dissolved.
@CommunistBotyou are a follower to an ideology that is build on lies and logical fallacies that are build around a structure of manipulation, it is not the USA that made the Soviet Union fall, it is the human will for freedom, safety and wealth that ended the Soviet Union.
@CommunistBotidk bout that one chief, a lot of money got spent on the military and not so much on things like infrastructure or building up domestic civilian industries. That and many of the member states were very ready to be independent and no longer ruled by the USSR that exploited them.
The ending of this video is inaccurate. Gorbachev resigned as General Secretary of the CPSU after the coup and remained as President of the USSR. It was Yeltsin that banned the CPSU on Russian soil. It was actually because of this coup that Yeltsin as able to consolidate power while the whole thing was falling down around everyone and set himself up to be the one in charge in the new post-Soviet system.
I wish i could support directly through patreon, but it's not really a posibility for me. Hopefully this channel lives for a lot longer, the simplistic animations and properly explained/worded stories make it not only a great source of info, but also a very entertaining and high quality one, it's a shame that this platform doesn't cherish it as it should
A very tactical usage of the terms “Soviet Russia” and “Russian Communist Members” for describing the USSR. I know we’re especially motivated to conflate the USSR and Russia when talking negatively nowadays, but two aren’t synonymous. Anymore than The Netherlands =\= Holland, or the UK =/= England.
How the Russian SFSR was handled within the USSR, one might think that all USSR heads of state were Russophobes and hated Russia, the RSFSR had no own anthem, branch party, KGB and almost no own institutions like the other Soviet republics, as a "structure perfectionist"(a fancy new term that I invented... I think) it drives me mad and disgusts me, if I were an Russian I would feel pretty fooled by this, also they can repeated that idiotic "Russia was basically the Soviet Union and did not need it's own Institutions and branch party of the CPSU"-Argument so often they want, I would never accept that as an good or reasonable argument
@@darkoratic2339Well, yes. I relate to most of it. When i wrote a novel based on a similar but somewhat different earth geography, i had to make things work out slightly better and puzzle things with an inkling of connection to; for such as member nations and whatnot.
Fun Fact: Shortly after the coup was defeated, Boris Yeltsin invited hard rock and heavy metal bands AC/DC, Pantera, Metallica and The Black Crows to preform a free Monsters of Rock concert at Tushino Airfield, a defunct soviet airfield. It was the first ever outdoor rock festival in Russian history, where an estimated 1,000,000 to 1,600,000 people attended.
Some poor soldier is reaching his retirement. Then the mutiny happens. Soviet Union collapses. Loses his pay and pension. "Screw this! The government owes me money! If they won't pay me, then I will pay myself with the government!" Starts selling everything in his depot to the highest bidder. It's funny because this really did happen.
Ok, there are a couple things in this video that NEED addressing... 1. Boris Yeltsin was not expelled from the Communist Party. Boris Yeltsin voluntarily left the Communist Party during a live session of the Soviet Party Congress voluntarily. Yeltsin left because he believed all the concerns he was bringing to the table was falling on deaf ears of Gorbachev. 2. The timing of the Coup was chosen for August 19th of 1991 for two most important reasons. - Gorbachev was due to make a one day Holiday Trip to his home in Crimea on the day and return by August 20th. - August 20th was supposed to be the signing day of "The State Treaty", in which the USSR was going to be abolished and the creation of a new state be born, the "Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics" or "United Sovereign States" which was going to contain 9 of the original 15 Soviet Republics. 3. There was much more to why the Coup failed other than the ordinary Russian Civilian simply taking up arms. Much of the Coup Leaders were acting under their own terms and as a result many institutions didn't know how to function properly. Most notably was in the Soviet Military as the leader of the Soviet Army (A supporter of the Coup) blindsided those in the Navy and Air Force and as a result the armed forces near completely collapsed. The fact that the USSR didn't fall into Civil War as a result of the Coup is quite a miracle considering there was a fight on the night of August 20th-21st between Soviet troops who sided with Boris Yeltsin and those who sided with the Coup Plotters outside the White House (Not the one in DC). Had things gone differently though things very well could've turned out extremely bloody.
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10:25 Gorbachev resigned at the 25th of December not a few days after the coup. The coup was significant for the dissolution for the Soviet Union. However, Gorbachev tried to keep the Union togethere while Jeltsin wanted to destroy it. Jeltsin succeeded in december when Ukraine voted in favor of independence after a referendum; when he signed the Belowitza accord; when Kazachstan left the Union; when he signed the Alma Ata protocol.
Gorbachev resigned from general secretary of the communist party in august 24th ,and the last acting general secretary of the soviet communist party was vladimir Ivashko and mr Ivashko suspended the communist party in August 29th 1991 thus ending the communist rule and afterward the position Gorbachev held until december its the President of the USSR
Tito was not the beggining of Yugoslavia. The beggining of Yugoslavia was King Peter I and his son King Alexander I and Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes, later renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
@@uros3701Yugoslavia is collapse & split to 7 nations No:1 Serbia No:2 Croatia No:3 Slovenia No:4 Bosnia and Herzegovina No:5 North Macedonia No:6 Montenegro No:7 Kosovo
Oh wow. This is good material for what I have planned for my book. Well next book hopefully since it’s building to it. It’ll be interesting to see them one day cover the Wagner mutiny attempt.
I love this video, it shows what the Russian people went through during those turbulent times. Crazy how history can repeat itself if authoritarianism remains. Unfortunately I do see another similar situation arising today. Like the allegory of the cave, let us go back and retrieve the willing minds who yearn for gravitas. To those who live in Russia and understand the thirst of thought. We are here and we will not forsake you.
Haha ya the US lives by that. I live in California my whole life or most of it and it sucks. Now with our gov. Just doing what it wants not even pretending like the people matter. U better check yourself before u wreck yourself, america is a undercover commy. California whole existence there only been 4 families as governor, seem a little odd? This is not the only state like that. The people vote for something then one judge overturned the people vote saying he knows what's best after the people have spoken. GTFOH with that shizzz. Undercover commy government.
@@Bruh-td7exIf anything the USA is the one restricting freedom whenever a functioning, popular, well loved socialist party rises to power and objectively improved its peoples lives. Not that I’m talking about Russia, that one is more complicated than anything, but still.
I watched Xin PPs speech on 100 years of the CCP. Trying to say how much this worked for Russia so that's why China is so "successful and prosperous". It was equally funny and sad.
What's in the constitution was a bit of an irrelevance. It wasn't (just like Russia isn't) a country with rule of law. Removing it would have been a bit more honest, but wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference. The USSR broke up because those in charge didn't have the appetite to keep it together anymore.
Now when some Russian/Soviet history is being taught, it would be interesting with a video about SMERSH and its involvement in finding Hitlers body. And why also SMERSH dissolved.
During the mid-80s, the USSR was a superpower in name only. It had lagged behind the U.S. by then and was essentially just ruled by very old men who had no idea what they were doing. Not to mention the paranoid KGB who were keeping everyone under their thumb. They thought they could keep it up, too, but underestimated that nationalism always wins it from Communism (as shown as early as the 50s in Hungary and later in the Czech Republic). They delayed it as much as they possibly could've, but by then it had become a shadow of its former great past (if you can call the millions who died under it in Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, East Germany and the USSR proper "great" to begin with).
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva Yeah for decades the USSR was a sinking ship. Gorv tried to patch up some of the holes to save it, but it was to little to late with more holes then he can handle.
@3:08 also there's some propaganda thrown in when it comes to current events. Not necessarily malicious propaganda, but it is what it is. This vid is about past events so
All the world except any nuclear power ,the America (the continent) , south east Asia and the Oceania because you need a fleet to invade all of these ,and the Soviet navy was a paper tiger
The Soviet Union utilized money inflation and planned shortages as part of the growth and strength illusion*. They printed money that they paid to workers/people. This caused price inflation. To control price inflation, planned shortages of goods were used. With little to spend their money on, Russians just kept it in the bank or mattress. Th3 Soviet Union’s economic machination grow more complex from. Suffice it to say, by the 80s the game was up. The Soviet Union was crumbling fast from within. Gorbachov was selected by the rest of the Soviet elite to try and right things by moving the economy closer a market one. But akin to turning a semi around on an ice slick steep grade road in a snow storm, it could not be done. Ironically, one of the reasons for the hostility of the people in ‘91 was all the saved up “wealth” that they had but could not find anything to purchase with it. Futher ironic, was all of that “wealth” evaporated in the people induced collapse of the Soviet Union. *Lately being repeated in the collapsing US and Europe.
I wish Putin had been around at the time instead of Gorby. The USSR would still be around today. He would have handled any independence movement the way Lincoln did with the south.
Only people in the west love him. Western leaders do it for obvious reasons. And western people do it because the idea of liberal democracy and the ideology of human rights is a new religion for them, and those who are not part of it are anathema, subhuman.
Strange that Gorbachev banned communist party and later during dashing 90's Yeltsin restored communist party and during presidential elections in 1995 he ran against Zuganov, leader of CPRF, and as result to win in elections Yeltin used anti-communist propaganda, where if people chose communists in Russia, then there gonna be famine like in 1930's, that's also how Yeltsin wanted to centralize the power to himself.
Ельцину помогли олигархи, которых бы сослали в Сибирь валить лес за воровство, в случае победы Зюганова. Если бы к власти пришел Жириновский, страна бы развалилась как Украина
But ussr could be defined as a democracy depending on how you see democracy The democracy with elections is called representative democracy and right now, it’s extremely flawed The main reason for the coup was because of anti communist people like Yeltsin gaining a lot of power It can kind of be compared to the USSR before the purges when a fifth column managed to form that controlled important aspects of the military
However unlike China the Soviet Union conquered and occupied many of the different ethnic groups and people's it ruled over so when those oppressed people's saw an opportunity to break away they took it.
@@bobs_toys And their economy lost $1T alone when Xi forcibly pivoted way from software/services. Their impeding financial difficulties will be amusing to watch if Xi doesn't launch a war so he can blame other countries for the problems he caused.
@@lenini056 I meant once they have inner conflicts (like prigozhin) but that really was nothing, once they have a real inner conflict, everything will change. And they certainly will very soon given the current state russia is in
July 1 1991 Warsaw Pact Dissolved East and West Germany become Germany, Warsaw Pact Members later Become Members of NATO: Albania ( Joined NATO 2009), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland (All 3 Join NATO 1999), Bulgaria and Romania[ (Joined NATO 2004). Years Later More Nations Join NATO and become Stronger.
I look at the WAGNER mutiny more as a side quest milk run than an actual mutiny.
I feel its a way to unaffiliated Wagner from Russia for something more where Wagner can't be affiliated with Russia. Aka attacking poland
@@battlebornsupermoto954 Well that failed cause NATO has stated that a attack from wagner will be seen as a russian attack
Lol
@@shiningamaterasu2579 Poland ain't playing anymore XD
@@fenfrostpaws2000Poland waiting for article 5 to be activate.
Around this time, someone named Yevgeny Prigozhin is selling hotdogs and also managing his friend grocery store.
Yevgeny was about to live the american dream
And some KGB guy called Putin was somewhere in East Germany at the time.
@@geckel2145and somehow he "landed" that dream not long ago...
Banning communism from the KGB, military and government was Gorbachev's last laugh 🤣 one of my favorite history moments
Gigachad
No. Yeltsin did that. I remember it like it was only yesterday. Serious factual error to end this video, I'm afraid :(
Gorbatchev should have done that already 1989 or 1990
yea now on to ethnic cleansing of caucasian white people and rise of american controlled islamic groups , some victory there
Same here, This was when democracy prevailed over tyranny
I feel like Gorbachev realized the union was near collapse and did the things he did to try and smooth the transition away from the party.
Because he knew how his predecessors took power.
its not like he sold out to the uk , you think he worked hard to create gorbachev foundation?
Nope Gorbachev absolutely wrecked the country and is one of the most if not the most hated, only behind Yeltsin, man in russiss
Imagine where the 1993 crisis turned into a second civil war in russia
А потом к власти придет Владимир Макаров и после организует для всего запада максимально быстрые похороны.
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As a kid who was born in USSR, I can tell you one thing, all Soviet Union ppl scared of the government. Because if you do something against them, not just you, but your family is in danger right away. We even have a jokes like, if you go vs them, you and your last name no more exist… there would be some who wouldn’t agree with me, but they would not do anything or say anything about how government is just super corrupt…
It kind of did, it's considered a civil war sometimes but it's not really so
Considering the nukes and extremist ideologies involved, it wouldn't be pretty. Errol Murphy's book covers one such hypothesis.
Because of the nukes, the West propped up the Russia government to prevent an all out civil war.
“You’re a superpower but who paid the price, with the endless destruction of Russian lives!” Rasputin
"I didn't say that" Rasputin
@@hellgates_javed6451it's from ERB of History.
"Shook hands with both Ronalds, Reagan and McDonald's, no doubt. If your name end with "-in" time to get out."
-Gorbachev
@@panzer1736 I know. I think it's the one where lenin is in a rap battle with stalin
The left always eats its own children
" I shook hands with both Ronalds, Reagan and McDonalds" - Gorbachev
“If your name end with “in”, time to get out.” - Gorbachev
@@filthyfranksmaccomputer1093 My Family Name is Zagorchin
It's unlikely the USSR could have survived for long, even if the coup didn't happen. The economy was already beyond repair before Gorby was put in charge of the sinking ship.
If the coup didn't happen I'd give the USSR maybe two years before it would be dissolved.
Communism would not have lasted on its own.
Communism itself is the logical flaw in a functioning economic system.
@CommunistBotsounds like a skill issue.
@CommunistBotyou are a follower to an ideology that is build on lies and logical fallacies that are build around a structure of manipulation, it is not the USA that made the Soviet Union fall, it is the human will for freedom, safety and wealth that ended the Soviet Union.
@CommunistBotidk bout that one chief, a lot of money got spent on the military and not so much on things like infrastructure or building up domestic civilian industries. That and many of the member states were very ready to be independent and no longer ruled by the USSR that exploited them.
The ending of this video is inaccurate. Gorbachev resigned as General Secretary of the CPSU after the coup and remained as President of the USSR. It was Yeltsin that banned the CPSU on Russian soil. It was actually because of this coup that Yeltsin as able to consolidate power while the whole thing was falling down around everyone and set himself up to be the one in charge in the new post-Soviet system.
I started watching your vids around 2018-2019 keep it up and you guys never fail to disappoint
probably the best video about the USSR without being confusing
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Keep watching and you help a tiny bit.
@@yyutti i know, comments help quite a bit too as it shows interaction within the channel's community, meaning that it's engaging content
Comment bots
@@darkclownKellen do you have a point or...?
Watch ads full and don't skip it's good way to support
The august coup, the only coup that instead of stopping the decline of the USSR it ended the USSR
A very tactical usage of the terms “Soviet Russia” and “Russian Communist Members” for describing the USSR. I know we’re especially motivated to conflate the USSR and Russia when talking negatively nowadays, but two aren’t synonymous.
Anymore than The Netherlands =\= Holland, or the UK =/= England.
How the Russian SFSR was handled within the USSR, one might think that all USSR heads of state were Russophobes and hated Russia, the RSFSR had no own anthem, branch party, KGB and almost no own institutions like the other Soviet republics, as a "structure perfectionist"(a fancy new term that I invented... I think) it drives me mad and disgusts me, if I were an Russian I would feel pretty fooled by this, also they can repeated that idiotic "Russia was basically the Soviet Union and did not need it's own Institutions and branch party of the CPSU"-Argument so often they want, I would never accept that as an good or reasonable argument
@@darkoratic2339Well, yes. I relate to most of it. When i wrote a novel based on a similar but somewhat different earth geography, i had to make things work out slightly better and puzzle things with an inkling of connection to; for such as member nations and whatnot.
Fun Fact: Shortly after the coup was defeated, Boris Yeltsin invited hard rock and heavy metal bands AC/DC, Pantera, Metallica and The Black Crows to preform a free Monsters of Rock concert at Tushino Airfield, a defunct soviet airfield. It was the first ever outdoor rock festival in Russian history, where an estimated 1,000,000 to 1,600,000 people attended.
This even effected in North Korean Economy on its people in which lead to the famine that many people died due to starvation......
Communist or scoialism is a curse. (I am from Socialist nation)
@@LightMCXx Late stage capitalism isn't so fun. You really have to regulate it so the average person doesn't get screwed.
@@recoil53yeah there needs to be a middle ground somewhat
@@win6903that's just Singapore
@@elevatedmeance6807 I'd describe it as more of an authoritative democracy but we've still got issues of our own here though (Singaporean here).
Some poor soldier is reaching his retirement. Then the mutiny happens. Soviet Union collapses. Loses his pay and pension. "Screw this! The government owes me money! If they won't pay me, then I will pay myself with the government!" Starts selling everything in his depot to the highest bidder.
It's funny because this really did happen.
Ok, there are a couple things in this video that NEED addressing...
1. Boris Yeltsin was not expelled from the Communist Party. Boris Yeltsin voluntarily left the Communist Party during a live session of the Soviet Party Congress voluntarily. Yeltsin left because he believed all the concerns he was bringing to the table was falling on deaf ears of Gorbachev.
2. The timing of the Coup was chosen for August 19th of 1991 for two most important reasons.
- Gorbachev was due to make a one day Holiday Trip to his home in Crimea on the day and return by August 20th.
- August 20th was supposed to be the signing day of "The State Treaty", in which the USSR was going to be abolished and the creation of a new state be born, the "Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics" or "United Sovereign States" which was going to contain 9 of the original 15 Soviet Republics.
3. There was much more to why the Coup failed other than the ordinary Russian Civilian simply taking up arms. Much of the Coup Leaders were acting under their own terms and as a result many institutions didn't know how to function properly. Most notably was in the Soviet Military as the leader of the Soviet Army (A supporter of the Coup) blindsided those in the Navy and Air Force and as a result the armed forces near completely collapsed.
The fact that the USSR didn't fall into Civil War as a result of the Coup is quite a miracle considering there was a fight on the night of August 20th-21st between Soviet troops who sided with Boris Yeltsin and those who sided with the Coup Plotters outside the White House (Not the one in DC). Had things gone differently though things very well could've turned out extremely bloody.
6:23 The funni trial man from TNO!
Hehe funni 100% germ(an)s remover man
yes it is the funi trial man from le TNO
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The first drawing depicted is from 1993 constituitional crisis protests, which were pro soviet Parliament.
It was a canon event.
I love the statement Chris made it really enpowerd me to keep studying history thourgh this chanell
I dig the improvement to the animations, as well as detail on the characters
10:25 Gorbachev resigned at the 25th of December not a few days after the coup. The coup was significant for the dissolution for the Soviet Union. However, Gorbachev tried to keep the Union togethere while Jeltsin wanted to destroy it. Jeltsin succeeded in december when Ukraine voted in favor of independence after a referendum; when he signed the Belowitza accord; when Kazachstan left the Union; when he signed the Alma Ata protocol.
Gorbachev resigned from general secretary of the communist party in august 24th ,and the last acting general secretary of the soviet communist party was vladimir Ivashko and mr Ivashko suspended the communist party in August 29th 1991 thus ending the communist rule and afterward the position Gorbachev held until december its the President of the USSR
The people in 1991 coup had better lifespan than that of 2023.
Love your videos. Been watching simple history for years now. Kepp up the great work your doing a brilliant job
When you transitioned to the advertisement I thought solid snake was trying to sell me
History lessons
Yeltsin was also famous for leaving Albert Reynolds waiting on the tarmac of Shannon airport
In memory of Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022)
Can you do the beggining of Yugoslavia and Tito.
Tito was not the beggining of Yugoslavia. The beggining of Yugoslavia was King Peter I and his son King Alexander I and Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes, later renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
@@uros3701Yugoslavia is collapse & split to 7 nations
No:1 Serbia
No:2 Croatia
No:3 Slovenia
No:4 Bosnia and Herzegovina
No:5 North Macedonia
No:6 Montenegro
No:7 Kosovo
@@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401 Careful with the last one, you might start some comment wars that way.
If Yeltsin wasn't an alcoholic later on, global peace could have been achieved
Nah, there was still Islam and China to muck up that peace.
@@cympimpin20what
@@HONOROFCOURSEIslam and china be warmongerers is what that person is saying i think.
Lol you talk like United States doesn't make it's own enemies
@@cympimpin20no
Curious where all the former Soviet leaders wound up after the collapse of the USSR.
Say what u will about the man, but he tried his best to steer his country into a new direction. A task much easier said than done
Always good!
4:35, thats od... why would the president of the United States warn the leader of the Soviet Union of a potential coup 🤔?.6:15 Ohh thats why 😮.
Oh wow. This is good material for what I have planned for my book. Well next book hopefully since it’s building to it.
It’ll be interesting to see them one day cover the Wagner mutiny attempt.
😂😂😂
Смешно. Мятеж. Ха-ха-ха. =)
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Please do a video on allied vs central powered trenches in ww1
I love this video, it shows what the Russian people went through during those turbulent times. Crazy how history can repeat itself if authoritarianism remains. Unfortunately I do see another similar situation arising today. Like the allegory of the cave, let us go back and retrieve the willing minds who yearn for gravitas. To those who live in Russia and understand the thirst of thought. We are here and we will not forsake you.
What's authoritarianism? Everytime I heard that word is because a country didn't follow United States orders
Neo-liberalism & Neo-Conservatism is 100% Cancerous
Plus Anti-communism is Supporting Fascism
@@ericsuarez834so not restricting freedom of people is the US orders?
Haha ya the US lives by that. I live in California my whole life or most of it and it sucks. Now with our gov. Just doing what it wants not even pretending like the people matter. U better check yourself before u wreck yourself, america is a undercover commy. California whole existence there only been 4 families as governor, seem a little odd? This is not the only state like that. The people vote for something then one judge overturned the people vote saying he knows what's best after the people have spoken. GTFOH with that shizzz. Undercover commy government.
@@Bruh-td7exIf anything the USA is the one restricting freedom whenever a functioning, popular, well loved socialist party rises to power and objectively improved its peoples lives.
Not that I’m talking about Russia, that one is more complicated than anything, but still.
The Wagner event was more like a sissy fit rather than a full coup
Rip Michael Gorbachev (1923-2022)
I really can't describe how much I hate the fact that the regime that overthrew Communism in Russia ended up being about as terrible.
a regime without starvation?
@@kurvitaschthedictator a regime built on bribery, poverty, and mafia rule under yeltsin
@@kurvitaschthedictatorhe means terrible to its neighbors, I'm guessing, which it definitely is.
Now that’s an ad I can both tolerate and support!
When will Easy Company get it's own episode here on the channel?
Day 3 of asking if you can make a “myths that developed from WW2” video
Ussr will always be remembered for stopping the Nazis.
Because the US gave you militarily aid and money.
@@CheapSquierBassPlayer I'm not Russian. I'm just saying they will forever be remembered for stopping the fascist nut with the big mustache
@@CheapSquierBassPlayer So the Americans gave me nothing""
@@CheapSquierBassPlayer The Soviet Union also liberated Europe alone. Like for themselves!!
@@badguy838 True, you orcs owe the US everything because we allowed you to survive.
4:18 To skip the sponsor
Thanks mate
Jfc... does History Channel get demonetized? Thanks for the content!
I watched Xin PPs speech on 100 years of the CCP. Trying to say how much this worked for Russia so that's why China is so "successful and prosperous". It was equally funny and sad.
China will collapse as well.
This was actually filmed in the 70's. You can tell by the cars.
Soviet cars had the same designs for decades, you can't exactly tell the time period just based on them.
I have a question: in theory and in practice, could Gorbachev or the USSR Supreme Soviet have removed Article 72 from the USSR Constitution?
What's in the constitution was a bit of an irrelevance. It wasn't (just like Russia isn't) a country with rule of law.
Removing it would have been a bit more honest, but wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference.
The USSR broke up because those in charge didn't have the appetite to keep it together anymore.
Very good video! In the youtube thumbnail for this video, what is the meaning of the ballerina on the tank?
new video lets go dude
What a crazy set of circumstances!
I remember when Gorbachev visited Minnesota.
The history doesn't repeat, but it runs circles in Russia.
6:21 the great trial awaits
Well at least Gorby didn't resort to a Tiananmen...
gorbachev sound like a cool dude
in Russia, Gorbachev is less popular than Stalin. so for whom he is a cool dude is a question
История не повторяет, она рифмуется
You are has to be the best UA-camr on this planet
I wonder if this rebellion will see a repeat performance soon...
Imagine there being a protest that ended the USSR. Then a mercenary coup
Now when some Russian/Soviet history is being taught, it would be interesting with a video about SMERSH and its involvement in finding Hitlers body. And why also SMERSH dissolved.
The animation looks different. Slightly crisper and more detailed.
Interesting, it's crazy how such a superpower collapsed so quickly
During the mid-80s, the USSR was a superpower in name only. It had lagged behind the U.S. by then and was essentially just ruled by very old men who had no idea what they were doing. Not to mention the paranoid KGB who were keeping everyone under their thumb.
They thought they could keep it up, too, but underestimated that nationalism always wins it from Communism (as shown as early as the 50s in Hungary and later in the Czech Republic). They delayed it as much as they possibly could've, but by then it had become a shadow of its former great past (if you can call the millions who died under it in Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, East Germany and the USSR proper "great" to begin with).
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva Yeah for decades the USSR was a sinking ship. Gorv tried to patch up some of the holes to save it, but it was to little to late with more holes then he can handle.
true@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinervathe United States, of course, helped this ship sink when dumping oil prices, preparing uprisings in Warsaw
@@Notrusbot Least schizophrenic USSR supporter:
AYE. Simple History face reveal!!!
This AYE-Criminal word in Rus.
he's revealed it for months now
Gorbachov was a traitor and died as a traitor. Pathetic was his life and his death
Who traitor who really who put Gorbachov came in power during 1985 .Ask politico and yuri
1986 EDSA People Power Revolution please.
Oh Yeah ? :-)
@3:08 also there's some propaganda thrown in when it comes to current events. Not necessarily malicious propaganda, but it is what it is. This vid is about past events so
This episode of the USSR is sad, not because it caused its dead, but also because it killed the effort to reform the union into a new state
Nobody wanted to be in that Union state
@@egertroos-qh7hw They held a referendum and the majority wanted to
@@StekkoMks122 Russians wanted
@@StekkoMks122 Not people in Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics
@@egertroos-qh7hw actually even in Ukraine and Belarus
If this was successful we would have seen that Video Game of the USSR doing one last final offensive to take the world
All the world except any nuclear power ,the America (the continent) , south east Asia and the Oceania because you need a fleet to invade all of these ,and the Soviet navy was a paper tiger
@@flavius5722hey I'm talking about World In Conflict
The Soviet Union utilized money inflation and planned shortages as part of the growth and strength illusion*. They printed money that they paid to workers/people. This caused price inflation. To control price inflation, planned shortages of goods were used. With little to spend their money on, Russians just kept it in the bank or mattress.
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Suffice it to say, by the 80s the game was up. The Soviet Union was crumbling fast from within.
Gorbachov was selected by the rest of the Soviet elite to try and right things by moving the economy closer a market one. But akin to turning a semi around on an ice slick steep grade road in a snow storm, it could not be done.
Ironically, one of the reasons for the hostility of the people in ‘91 was all the saved up “wealth” that they had but could not find anything to purchase with it. Futher ironic, was all of that “wealth” evaporated in the people induced collapse of the Soviet Union.
*Lately being repeated in the collapsing US and Europe.
yea… Yeltsin didn’t “Take power for his own gain” post 1991.
Is a Patreon a UA-cam?
No my friend
I can't imagine how much modern Russia despises Gorbachev
I wish Putin had been around at the time instead of Gorby. The USSR would still be around today.
He would have handled any independence movement the way Lincoln did with the south.
That's... not good.
@@kaldunaaa Only if you're a western globalist.
@@PrimericanIdol No, I'm Georgian and I don't want anything to do with Russia. I'd much prefer if it were to burn down to the ground in its entirety.
I hate Gorbachev,everyone in mother Russia does.
Only people in the west love him. Western leaders do it for obvious reasons. And western people do it because the idea of liberal democracy and the ideology of human rights is a new religion for them, and those who are not part of it are anathema, subhuman.
Route 66 History Please!
The dissolve of the USSR was inevitable. By the late 70s it was already falling apart.
When your a nation build by organized crime your bound to end up having "issue" with competent reformers in charge,
I love videos that contain the words russia and destroy.
Ironic how the kind of things Gorbachev suffered, Stalin was overly paranoid over.
Strange that Gorbachev banned communist party and later during dashing 90's Yeltsin restored communist party and during presidential elections in 1995 he ran against Zuganov, leader of CPRF, and as result to win in elections Yeltin used anti-communist propaganda, where if people chose communists in Russia, then there gonna be famine like in 1930's, that's also how Yeltsin wanted to centralize the power to himself.
Ельцину помогли олигархи, которых бы сослали в Сибирь валить лес за воровство, в случае победы Зюганова. Если бы к власти пришел Жириновский, страна бы развалилась как Украина
But ussr could be defined as a democracy depending on how you see democracy
The democracy with elections is called representative democracy and right now, it’s extremely flawed
The main reason for the coup was because of anti communist people like Yeltsin gaining a lot of power
It can kind of be compared to the USSR before the purges when a fifth column managed to form that controlled important aspects of the military
For the nth time, please cover the rise and fall and rise again of Ferdinand Marcos...
Today's Russia trying to recreate the old borders of Soviet Russia is truly a peculiar sight to witness
More like the old Russian empire of the 19th century
no NATO is expanding in attempts to destroy russia, Iran and china.
Luckily they'll fail and fall flat on their faces.
The ironic thing about the War in Ukraine is that Russia is on the verge of yet another civil war which means history will repeat itself eventually.
@@epeeypennato is an OPEN invitation, it doesn't force its members to join. Russia has no business to dictate who joins what in independent nations.
Considering what China did with more openness Gorbachev might have had the right idea.
However unlike China the Soviet Union conquered and occupied many of the different ethnic groups and people's it ruled over so when those oppressed people's saw an opportunity to break away they took it.
Before they decided "this opening has helped us enough. It's time to shut it down!"
In memory Mikael Gorbachev (1928-2022)
@@bobs_toys And their economy lost $1T alone when Xi forcibly pivoted way from software/services. Their impeding financial difficulties will be amusing to watch if Xi doesn't launch a war so he can blame other countries for the problems he caused.
Do The EDSA People Power revolution of 1986
Polish American volunteers in France, The Blue Army, please
He resiged as General Secretary of the Communist Party, but was still President until 12/31/91. So he was still leader.
WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?!
It will happen, but nothing in russia changes because of the people, once the leaders are in conflict, then something in russia changes
@@supaman6713 they already are in conflict. Its called Ukraine
@@lenini056 I meant once they have inner conflicts (like prigozhin) but that really was nothing, once they have a real inner conflict, everything will change. And they certainly will very soon given the current state russia is in
This looks great
July 1 1991 Warsaw Pact Dissolved East and West Germany become Germany, Warsaw Pact Members later Become Members of NATO: Albania ( Joined NATO 2009), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland (All 3 Join NATO 1999), Bulgaria and Romania[ (Joined NATO 2004). Years Later More Nations Join NATO and become Stronger.
*You Just did changed video photo ? come on Simple History.*
such a sad turn of events
5:19 the treaty could have saved Soviet union
[muffled Na Zare in the distance]
Gorbachev and Putin are the worst things to happen to Russia
Lenin probably takes that crown. Considering what he led to.