The Coup That Killed The USSR
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- In August 1991, a group of Soviet hardliners locked Gorbachev up in his Crimean dacha and tried to keep the USSR together by force. Facing massive protests, they gave up just three days after taking power, when the first civilian blood was spilled in Moscow.
Originally published at - www.rferl.org/...
They overthrew an authoritarian state just to become another authoritarian state a few years later 😂 💀
Yelstin was an authoritarian 😂, Putin was just better at keeping the Country at the right pact
@@Fermifire And you are joking if you really think like that 🤣
@@Fermifire Bro tried to become cool 🤣
@@wizardman3162 Yes, authoritarian to the bourgeois, multibillionaires and corrupt oligarchs.
The Soviet Union was a socialist democracy. A democracy of the working class. The modern Russian Federation is a democracy of the rich corrupt oligarchs, exactly like the Unites States.
The coup was supposed to take place in 1987 when Gorbachev allowed the members of the Warsaw Pact to withdraw freely from the military alliance. In 1991 it was already too late
Right, they should have taken Gorby out earlier as he lead to the collapse of Eastern Europe & the Soviet Union..disastrous.. 😳 🤔 🤦♂️
Part of the problem was the Warsaw Pact was far too large and far too controlled. There is an urge for freedom within all of us.
Stalin was right to push German borders West to Oder-Nesse Line, but he had no need to control Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and especially East Germany, let alone also Yugoslavia and Albania as he tried to. The Carpathian Mountains
USSR should have gradually loosened controls over republics such that each republic was granted the same status as Poland within the Warsaw Pact, especially the South Caucus republics as the Caucus Mountains provide a good defensive border for Russia.
The Bolsheviks wanted it all and hence they lost it all.
@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns These facts are really mind blowing. Russia has a backbone which is why they are where they are, and, well, the Divided States of America just allows treason at the highest levels! There is no backbone in this country! Meanwhile, Russia is the biggest enemy to peace in the West and the EU? Really? They took Crimea because it was just unlawfully taken from them in 1954!
And then Putin came. Change the Russian constitution so he can stay in power until 2036. 😂
along with 80% of population that support him... no more dismantling or corruption in Russia and time to build the country over again.
@@meso8848 Without western technology not even a change. Otherwise Russia can achieve post-WW2 Japan economy miracle.
@@patriciaszabo8015 they can .. just look at their history how many times they were attacked and how many times they came back stronger..
We are living all in this earth 🌍.. Americans are joke they think they can eradicate and isolate such a big country from it haha 🤦♂️
@@meso8848 corruption hasn't been higher. look at their failing military
@@cryptexawm3285 ussr ? Biggest military.. scared the hell out of the Americans! I bet the Americans are happy of the dismantling of ussr .. now attacking Russia via Ukraine lol never enough
what a momentous few days. wonder why they didnt teach us this in public school in the US
because you're instead forced to learn all of your 21123124 presidents by heart ;)
@@svenjalangner1228 there’s only been 46 or something similar. That wouldn’t take long to learn.
AYL YI -Huh When I learned cold war history in UK schools they didn't teach us this either , they blamed the death of the USSR all on economic problems caused by the soviet war in Afghanistan
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@@cryptocsguy9282ты забыл добавить обвал цен на нефть в начале 1980х годов так как Советская экономика зависила от нефтяной иглы
My parents and their generation all remember where they were when Kennedy was shot. For me this is a similar story- working in a paper factory part time in the mornings, getting home and needing a bath to wash away huge quantities of paper dust, my mum shouted up the stairs that Gorbachev was under arrest, and I thought I'd misheard at first...
Yeltsin standing on the tank and showing indomitable courage, facing down the rebellion caused them to blink before they'd even got momentum. It was downhill from their for the plotters, but set in motion an unstability that brought him down and strengthened Yeltin's hand- in the short term at least.
& Yeltsin, the pathetic drunk-politician that he was, essentially plummeted his country into mob corruption, oligarchy & even WORSE poverty than before… such a “hero”.. 🙄 🤦♂️ 😒
Я свою бабушку спрашивал, про день полета Гагарина, а она свою маму - про день смерти Сталина...
yeah and opening the door for cia to come in
one of greatest disasters of 20th century
@vyhozshuthat the coup even had to happen
Chad Yazov and gang vs Virgin Gorbachev and Yelts*in
You have to be satire while saying this shit
@@myoptimumpride5178 yes, but I don't like Gorbachev or Yeltsin.
@@gnas1897 so virgin defeated the Chads? The USSR was already collapsing under its own contradictions. Gorbachev was trying to salvage it. The USSR did not not Georgia or Armenia (south of the Caucus mountains) or the Baltic States (it was a loss but USSR existed before incorporation of those states), but it did need the Slavic states of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and the Central Asian states, to help protect its soft underbelly.
Gorbachev had many problems but was faced with too many competing forces tearing the Union apart (nationalists, capitalists, US) and Old Guard Communists (whose recalcitrance had been responsible for the mess the USSR was in) and too few people to trust.
The result was a disaster but it could have been a calamity if the Old Guard was allowed to fight to retain control.
I would believe this was actually a coup attempt if there were a man with Viking horns seated in Gorbachev's chair.
underrated and vastly underappreciated comment
2:10 is actually a footage of soviet troops in Vilnius on January 13, 1991.
Fitting after the retreat of the coalition out of Afghanistan...
Saw a third of the Video... Thought-,believe the existence of the USSR led to the sovereignty of countries and reductions in relation to territories 435/78 . . . Still researching
now its one president 4 life
Totally collaps of a system....the Anarchy started after
Biden right now
End of Ruthless days.
almost
@@exposett246 Yeah your right
beginning of
No. That's wrong. It's the beginning of a kleptocracy that would hold Russia in chains. People are being beaten right now if they so much speak about the Special Operation against Ukraine, voice their anti-war concerns, and call Putin out. Russians love their strong men but they are really too vodka-addled to realize that vodka is what holds them back from exercising their rights as citizens.
The FSB and police are already rounding up anti-Putinists. Hitmen are killing Putin's critics. Yeah, end of ruthless days, sure! /s
It was only the beginning
This is sending me anxiety, as these dates coincide very closely with my date of birth
DID HE JUST SAY " MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, USSR'S FIRST AND LAST PRESIDENT" Bro Vladimir Lenin was the first.leader of the USSR
No one hold president title before Gorbachev
yeah, that turned out great
But amnesty is nothing!
Single handedly, Gorbachev dismantled the USSR. I consider him to be a Traitor.
We need the Soviet Union back now more than ever!
No?
@@tennisboatrdr2 Yes?
@@200131356 soviet union was a failed state, returning it will result in it failing again
@@200131356 Why though, I mean I wouldn't really care but I'd prefer for it to be someone more centrist & democratic compared to Putin
@@randomdude3299 The Soviet Union was far more democratic than the modern capitalist Russian Federation and Vladimir Putin. The Soviet union was the first successful, long-standing socialist country society and project. It was very progressive and ahead of its time, and trying things on an economic and societal level that have never been done before. What took the United States centuries to accomplish only took the Soviet Union a few decades. Soviet style socialism turned Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia into a developed space faring industrialized superpower in just a few decades.
no way TNO reference
Dude I had to do a double take when they said “Dimitri yazov” then I was like “oh yeah he actually was a real guy”
Europe had this and Asia had...
Бориса Пуго и его жену убил горбачев
This hits a little close to home rn… where tf is Joe Biden?
Yes poland and czech republic was under the Soviets as well
it should be return as unitery republic
Gen și clonarea de oameni profită de identitatea lor.
Cover story told and re-told.
what's the real story?
freeddom time, fall of ussr fascism regime !
Fascism was Hitler and USSR saved the world from the fascism. You're ignorant
They weren't fascist, they were communist. The definition of fascist is, 'a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual' the USSR was anti-nationalistic, and wanted to create a classless and raceless society. They are two completely different ideologies and to mix them into one is ignorant.
@@ks1withcanc3r20 great to see some persons have brain ! Good straightforward definition 👍
hell yeah, total russian death
Crony child, tell me what is fascism