Mikhail Gorbachev's Resignation and Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Dec. 25, 1991 - ABC Nightline

Ted Koppel in Moscow and with Gorbachev on the day of his resignation and the dissolution of the USSR. The Soviet hammer & sickle flag is replaced with the Russian flag at the end of the broadcast.

[@fallenorrisen120]

When you go to space as a Soviet, but you return to Earth as a Russian.

[@miguelvina7188]

Well soviets are called russians as well i heard?

[@ilias0171]

LC Eagle or commies

[@rusball5355]

And it will be the last time when you go to space

[@anthonychilders9549]

Simone actually did that

[@fallenorrisen120]

Rusball We*

[@oceanman1697]

Soviet Union: “it’s getting late, I’m gonna head to bed” The World: “Yeah bro same, goodnight, talk to you tomorrow” *Last Online 29 Years Ago*

[@San17_]

Give this man a like

[@bilegtb6376]

Sad

[@zengalex6951]

Nah they just created another account on the same server

[@iurasek2]

Stolen comment from USSR TV End of Day Sign-off

[@YouCuberHD]

I was about to say you copied this comment, but this is our comment anyways

[@gamersam3920]

Imagine the person who went to sleep in the Soviet Union and slept through all of this and woke up in Russia.

[@freedomfighterletsgobrandon]

Russia was always there. You were either a soviet Russian or a soviet Belarussian or a soviet Ukrainian or a ... The USSR was an union of 15 states, same as the USA is an union of 50 states. The leading soviet state of course has always been Russia.

[@langostanostra]

The Russian detective in Citizen X

[@lackedpuppet9022]

​@@freedomfighterletsgobrandonYes, but as someone who lives in Massachusetts, I'd sure be mighty surprised if the country I woke up in tomorrow was the Republic of Massachusetts and the President was Maura Healey. So yeah, Russia always existed during the Soviet Union, but it wasn't these people's country. That'd still be a huge change for anyone.

[@SkeetontheverycoolSkeleton]

@@lackedpuppet9022Imagine that, imagine the United States collapsing over Joe Biden preferring chocolate chocolate chip over cookies and cream, and Trudeau and AMLO with him, accidentally collapsing the three all because of this oh wait why am i rambling about this

[@harshchhonker5307]

no one slept that night....some were sad and other western radicalized were happy

[@Bernie_Hoffman]

I was with Ted Koppel in Gorbachev's office at the end of the Soviet Union. He called Bush and told him he was resigning and turning to nuclear codes over to Yeltsin who was down the hall drunk. I watched them take down the Soviet flag in the Kremlin and raise the Russian state flag. I shot the opening at 3A in Red Square with Ted and took his Gorbachev's last walk through the Kremlin with him. Show was called Gorabchev:The Final Hours. two hour show that won an Emmy.

[@babimon5435]

I bet it was very emotional for all present.

[@illuminaticake4528]

Incredible...

[@fattaman777]

You have to understand some would see this claim with some doubt. Have you any proof, friend?

[@Bernie_Hoffman]

@@fattaman777 It aired as a two hour special on ABC called Gorbachev The Final Hours. I have an Emmy nomination hanging on my wall plus a photo on myself and Gorbachev(with other Press also) taking his final walk through the Kremlin. All documented. Yes, I do have proof.

[@TheVirginian2005]

Wow. You were there? Unbelievable. I wish I was alive at the time. I'm only 17. Almost an adult

[@Loup-mx7yt]

People: The ussr dissolved because of an unstable economy. The actual reason the ussr dissolved: Gorbachev: I want McDonald's

[@khosyianthem]

No, he want Pizza Hut. So he became a star of pizza hut ad

[@ShatnerMethod]

@@khosyianthem And there he is(!): kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGHNkqKwh6Z-jNk

[@jazsm5385]

It dissolved bcoz of that drunk treacherous Boris!

[@darksniper2144]

No the real reason is that Gorbachev wanted the ussr to last 69 years

[@ramen_9588]

That is not the reason why,Gorbachev Was Just Too Lenient With Being Leader.

[@walker68175]

The last cosmonaut of the Soviet Union was actually in the Mir Space Station when the USSR collapsed. Basically, he went up there as a Soviet and came back as an Alien.

[@hoobaguy4311]

He was still a citizen of his native country...

[@hoorayforhawksbills]

I remember that! I went to Q&A session about the NASP at a science museum during that; they had a retired astronaut there to answer questions- I asked if NASA was going to go save him!

[@vijeshkumar692]

😂😂

[@spkanava]

91

[@RADIS370]

Imagine what he said. "Hello comrades! So how is the soviet union?" The people:"Uhh this is russia USSR Collapsed 10 years ago..." "Haha nice joke!" The people:"No really" "Oh..."

[@HundreadD]

The ad breaks gave me more of a greater impression on the passage of time than the actual topic of the broadcast

[@Nadia1989]

For real. My parents had a vacuum like the one in the ads, but colored cream and brown.

[@arcticwolf9332]

Look at Ted Koppel's objectivity. He speaks candidly, but quite objectively. Certainly very different from the anxiety inducing way of talking that we see today. Anchors today talk with aggressiveness, in an effort to sell. This man, Koppel, is impressive. He is calm, objective, informative, and certainly a product of an era where people were interested in information, not in tendencies. Look at news outlets today. There is no true news. It's all about creating biased agendas.

[@abalcerzak1931]

Imagine the guy who asked the end of USSR for christmas present as a joke.

[@kapitan19969838]

Probably not as a joke

[@quakeknight9680]

@@kapitan19969838 not joke for milions of russians who lost their jobs.

[@kapitan19969838]

@@quakeknight9680 You mean the unnecessary, parasitic, socialist bureaucrats?

[@DP-hy4vh]

I threw a penny in a wishing well five years before this happened.

[@fripipe9882]

@@kapitan19969838 Yes, but also millions of people lost their jobs and resorted to crime because of instability

[@lillyie]

Kazakhstan is that one AFK guy in the zoom call who didn't realize the meeting is over and is the only one left in the call

[@joeguy4174]

Lol

[@joeguy4174]

@Mouge youtube commenters who see the same thing: first time?

[@IloveRumania]

RealLifeLore: (nervously sweating)

[@PabloToonimations]

And then, Kazakhstan (formerly Kazakh SSR) Left the call delayed

[@joseluis72199]

Kazakhstan was the USSR for only 4 Days!

[@paolocabling]

Who was here watching exactly 30 years after the fall happened?

[@BerianYT]

this year is 33

[@paulocohenA_]

Gorbachev is still alive at 90 years old. Pretty cool

[@toddsmitts]

He outlived all the hardliners who tried to oust him in a coup, as well as his de facto successor Yeltsin.

[@TimeMakerDotPH]

gorbachev is basically russia's version of queen elizabeth ii,queen lizzybeth ii saw the end of the british empire,gorbachov saw the end of ussr.

[@jimwelestrella7966]

Yeah I Know Mikhail Gorbachev is still alive

[@mduduzisibanda5035]

That sellout

[@gunterodim1535]

Satan is afraid that Gorbachev will spoil everything even in the underworld. The man who destroyed the greatest state in history.

[@Camilo_Ballestas]

December 24th, 1991 We're Soviet! December 25th, 1991 We're Russian!

[@davyboywilliams]

Not just Russian but 15 other races

[@jokerzwild00]

@@davyboywilliams nationalities! Absolutely right though, it involved more than just Russia.

[@Kennedy_Killer]

Merry Christmas

[@Popkeeed]

December 25th* December 26th

[@user-cc2kh1fh5t]

@Jericho Oban im Armenian this post-soviet nation but humans say or USSR that s Russia no Soviet UNION its UNION but not russian country

[@vynity8]

At my first glance, I thought that was Donald Trump in the thumbnail.

[@jrexx2841]

I though I'm the only one

[@robb4show]

I did too

[@swissmediastuff]

Nope, It’s Ted

[@joemixon834]

They rock the same hair

[@MarvelousSeven]

Same.

[@ltsgoyanks]

Concerning Gorbachev's rule... "They were the best, and the worst years of my life". What a great quote!

[@elishavelez8746]

I wasn't born this early in the 90's, but watching the commercials in between feels so cozy and nostalgic. ☺️

[@anonymousr1918]

Cringe

[@spkanava]

91

[@Ananas-280]

Exactly man idk what is it but I feel cozy and quite seeing this as if i lived through it Love the old Christmas days and how everything was so much about family and togetherness, not everyone on their phones now don't give a shit about any tradition

[@Alex_FRD]

Everything about this news broadcast seems like it's from another universe. The world's changed so much since 1991.

[@aleksandros6965]

I don't know about Russia but western world was better in the '90, especially my country: Italy

[@Perrirodan1]

It was 30 years ago.

[@cruzgomes5660]

@@aleksandros6965 why Italy

[@aleksandros6965]

@@cruzgomes5660 we were the fourth richer state of the world, after the rise of united Germany and the new technologies discovered during the last 25 years we lost a lot. I think in cold war period, USA supported us more and viceversa, for Italy is convenient dealing with americans and either russians than the other eu countries.

[@texmontana420]

@@aleksandros6965 if only the west went fascist

[@meanbeanmachine3852]

December 24 1991 Soviet Union: my last Christmas is my downfall

[@exe4036]

Mean bean Machine In Post-Soviet counties Christmas celebrate at 7 January no 25 December

[@Montgomeryyy]

@@exe4036 You mean Russia and most Slavic countries? I'm from Lithuania, a post-Soviet country, and we celebrate on the 25th of December.

[@exe4036]

Montgomery I mean Russia and most Slavic countries+ Georgia

[@Perehenaa]

@@exe4036 Not necessarily Post-Soviet countries. Mostly Orthodox countries celebrate it on January 7th.

[@Detroittruckdoctor55]

@@Montgomeryyy doesnt your country have alot of catholic people

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I remember this and am so happy someone uploaded it! I was 8 years old at the time and was the first serious thing my parents taught me about the world.

[@douglasjames1943]

I was 12 and remember it very similarly.

[@thepotatobredrblx1404]

Imagine going to a store in the Soviet Union, but coming back home in the Russian Federation.

[@novostranger]

"I just wanted a Pizza Hut and I ruined everything" -Mikhail Gorbachev

[@JainaKeria]

@Ann Nifödova every soviet leader was corrupt. It's literally what caused the stagnation because not being able to vote out people who suck is a bad way to run a country.

[@kaparg]

@@JainaKeria it was more because communism doesn't work economically,but ok

[@kaparg]

He didn't ruin everything,HE MADE IT BETTER!

[@solidslfy2879]

@@kaparg it did, which is why it became a super power u idiot

[@kaparg]

@@solidslfy2879 no,no it didn't,do i seriously have to say this in 2020? Or is this 1969?

[@T-Rex-nm1se]

U.S: Finally, my rival is gone. Now i can relax. China: Hello there

[@calenskyes]

U.S: Bruh just give me a break already!!

[@calenskyes]

@Imtron_ 180 Afghanistan to the rest of the world: Bruh just give me a break already

[@Phil_3.0shorts]

@@calenskyes planet earth: broooo just give me a Break

[@megatron9183]

North Korea: are u sure abt that

[@Phil_3.0shorts]

@@megatron9183 Russia: “time for round two”

[@jtsmith1817]

Fun fact: A Soviet-Russian cosmonaut had little chance on returning home before this happened

[@ExtinctExplosion]

100 years since founded, 31 years and 5 days since dissolved.

[@AmosNg555]

USSR: I guess it's time for me to go. US: Take care of yourself.

[@amalayperson7208]

US later: HAHAHA HAHA USSR collapsed! HAHAHHAHAH

[@AmosNg555]

@@amalayperson7208 US: *Hugs USSR* I'll remember you brother! USSR: Don't forget, we're Allies!

[@TheButterMinecart1]

@@AmosNg555 What version of history have you been learning? The USSR and US were always enemies. Even during WW2 the western Allies were extremely reluctant to help the USSR against the Nazis and were extremely opportunistic.

[@hatinmyselfiscool2879]

amosng 350 “threatened the whole world”. Ah yes hug

[@coffeelink943]

Regardless of the Cold War. America saved the Soviet Union from collapsing of starvation and corrupted economy. The Soviet Union generals admitted themselves that if “it wasn’t for the American intervention of supplies, we would have suffered a lot worse than losing the war, how can we make tanks without steel? How can we make a ammo without copper and gun powder? In case anyone asked, FDR literally gave USSR 1.1 billion free credits to help the fight against the Nazi, this is why Stalin like FDR a lot more than Truman in office www.rbth.com/defence/2016/03/14/lend-lease-how-american-supplies-aided-the-ussr-in-its-darkest-hour_575559 www.historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-lend-lease-helped-the-soviets-defeat-the-germans.htm

[@urhomiesapien]

Gorbachev: "Our people will live in a prosperous and democratic society _10 years later_ *Putin has joined the server*

[@issacnuri5924]

Well modern russia Is a piece of shit, but Putin Is not a bad president.

[@yamiart6149]

@@issacnuri5924 He's not bad, but he's not exactly good either

[@issacnuri5924]

@@yamiart6149 not good? I give you the president of my country if you want

[@nguyenjimmy3820]

The first president of Russia is Boris Yeltsin

[@firingallcylinders2949]

Isn't Russia suffering from really bad corruption?

[@VOTE_REFORM_UK]

My parents who were from the Soviet Union but had moved out about a decade before it’s collapse told me they were shocked at the fall of the USSR and did not expect it to ever fall.

[@RandomizedProductions-Main]

So your parents moved around December of '81? (Bans math)that, -10 years from collapse)

[@VOTE_REFORM_UK]

@@RandomizedProductions-Main Obviously that’s not supposed to be taken too literally. I just mean approximately a decade before it’s collapse.

[@RandomizedProductions-Main]

@@VOTE_REFORM_UK It's around that time.

[@VOTE_REFORM_UK]

@@RandomizedProductions-Main Well yeah

[@Xnoob545]

I was born in Lithuania, way after the fall of the USSR I know some stuff about how it was like back then, from people explaining it to me, and to me it feels obvious that a country like this would fall

[@art3mkin]

Imagine falling asleep in the USSR and waking up in Russia

[@dc4296]

My dad, who was working overseas at the time, simply couldn't believe it. The existence of the Soviet Union was just a fact of life and everyone fully expected a war to happen betwen it and the NATO countries at some point.

[@artistwithouttalent]

Good news!

[@foobazzler]

yeah, about that...

[@k.ragavrajvikas6257]

@@foobazzler aged like a fine wine

[@zephyrus3554]

Nato just had to keep pushing closer and piss Putin off, and now look where we are.

[@artistwithouttalent]

@@zephyrus3554 NATO didn't do shit. Former Eastern Bloc countries applied to join NATO because even 20 years ago there were people who were concerned about Putin, and his aggressions only prove they were right to do so.

[@Ryan-xo6tj]

This has to be the weirdest and least funny comment section I've ever seen

[@itschewsday5252]

Either you run into someone who makes a joke or someone who fully supports communism

[@Glarblenuck]

Yep, full of 13 year old redditors who are going through their rebellious phases.

[@thetrippedup9322]

At last, I have found my people

[@TrizzlyYT]

Hello

[@TrizzlyYT]

@skinfullofdoom pretty good this week, next week's gonna be my semester finals haha

[@KshitijBhambri1]

RIP Mikhail. You changed the world with Ronald Reagan

[@prajwaldatta1912]

For the worse

[@elsebas3167]

@@prajwaldatta1912 🤦‍♂️

[@toyotasupra174]

@@prajwaldatta1912 indian detected opinion rejected

[@applizm2083]

@@prajwaldatta1912 no

[@scottthewozfan6983]

@@prajwaldatta1912 tankie detected

[@minewheaties5029]

This is another thing The Simpsons can be blamed for. Even the symbolic Moscow Monsters of Rock concert, which featured Highway to Hell performing AC/DC as headliners, came out too long after the Devil told Bart to listen heavy metal music in the January 1991 episode Bart Gets Hit By A Car. Bartmania was something the USSR could not contain, and historians need to recognize that more.

[@knifeknife69]

Soviet Union: “Goodbye 1991” *Last online in 31 years ago*

[@skywishr1313]

30 Years Of Good luck

[@purple.requiem]

*31

[@BerianYT]

33

[@henrycabotlodge1259]

Am I the only one who thinks the reporter looks like Donald Trump?

[@theextremeanimator4721]

Yeah

[@otheooo]

No.

[@theextremeanimator4721]

@@dasmodem887 no

[@ChefBuckeye]

Nope

[@mattwood5190]

No

[@MakoNext]

jokes, memes, history apart, what a solid piece of TV journalism

[@ryantan1754]

RIP Mikhail Gorbachev 1931-2022

[@aeternalis]

Yeah, rest in piss. A traitor and someone who wrought misery upon millions because of his actions. May he rub elbows with Judas for all time.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

He tried.

[@america692]

​@@TheMrPeteChannelafter all he did.. and putin throws it away

[@bunnitomoe3866]

​@@america692 he revive Russia from the ashes of Yeltsin disasterous rule. He bring Russia to become one of the world power again. Every russians should be thankfull to him that Russia is not a third world country rn

rest in piss

[@billclinton3862]

"Equally constructive basis with his successors" The world : Well that was a fucking lie

[@slipslop9990]

Putin: what’s up?

[@JoshuaSobel]

I mean, Clinton and Yeltsin got along decently

[@pradman81]

It has ended but even on the last day, that anthem sounds just as epic.

[@PhirePhlame]

Enough so that the Russian Federation kept the melody and simply changed the lyrics

[@Scottish_Transport_Explorer]

@@PhirePhlame Yep and I loved that they have done that it’s far better than the anthem that they had between 1991 to 2000

[@rwboa22]

@@PhirePhlame they had a different anthem under the Yeltsin Presidency. Putin brought back the old Soviet Anthem, albeit with the new lyrics as it was a more familiar tune. It would be like the U.S. replacing the "Star Spangled Banner" with "Our Country 'Tis of Thee" knowing that the tune is the same as "God Save The King/Queen" in Great Britain (and in Canada, which is the Co-Official Anthem of the Dominion along with "O Canada").

[@lightcompanion9696]

It's not ended yet. Everything is ahead.)

[@cheg6057]

Socialism will win

[@HinduBallYT]

'When he say, The hammer and sickle is lowered for the last time and "An era comes to an end" My eyes fullfil of tears

[@MinH-ry9dn]

ok ear

[@moonknight1359]

It is " An era came to an end" not eat.

[@MinH-ry9dn]

@@moonknight1359 i said "ear" not "eat". Read his comment again

[@toyotasupra174]

Oh looking at your English I got to know you're indian

[@HinduBallYT]

Everyone! That was a mistake -_-

[@user-vn2on9tz9g]

It's so fun and unpleasant at the same time to hear Americans say about oppression of other nations and countries... The USSR has lost both in the economics and politics to the US and the NATO, but what's more sad is the death of socialism as a hope of people from the beginning of 20th century to live better lives and to build more sustainable future for everybody, it still wonders me, that the USSR could send people to space, develop massive industries, had accessible education and housing distribution, but couldn't provide simple consumer goods to everybody...

[@ShatnerMethod]

Many countries in Western Europe have a kind of mixed economy of socialism and capitalism - it isn't just one or the other - and seems to work pretty well.

[@user-vn2on9tz9g]

@@ShatnerMethod first world economies, especially in Western Europe have social-democratic states, which provide people with social benefits, based on very developed economics of first class goods, but 3 world countries produce cheaper goods or raw resources, and their capitalism is still based on harsh exploitation of people, that makes that neocolonial dependence, that 3rd World countries can't compete with others in terms of more expensive sectors of economics. There are social states in Europe, but it's very far to the point, where they will appear all over the world

[@ShatnerMethod]

@@user-vn2on9tz9g Like much of eastern Europe, Russia itself had opportunities to move toward a first world economy with its developed education system and natural resources but has become an authoritarian, and now, criminal state instead. Tragic and sad what Putin is doing not only to Ukraine but to his own country. Russia needs new and very different leadership that will stop blaming others for all of their own country's own outrageous mistakes and end the terrible killing and suffering that it is imposing on its neighbouring nation of Ukraine. What a terrible waste this war is and for what?

[@spkanava]

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[@jorkkeker8097]

Russians watch this and feel nostalgic for their empire Americans watch this and feel nostalgic for Sears

[@brianticas7671]

Lol i remember sears. Yeah. Well to be honest if you move financially, you start buying more expensive things. Higher quality stores man. Macy's Bloomingdales, Guess, Polo Ralph Lauren. PEOPLE BETTER THEMSELVES AND WANT QUALITY STUFF. SAME WITH THE SOVIET UNION. ALL COUNTRIES GOT TIRED OF THAT SHIT

[@oppositeswitzerland1058]

nooooo sears

[@comrade137]

USSR was not empire.

[@Thot_Patrol_USA]

sears has 12 stores left period

[@RobiePAX]

0:00 ironically the first three words of the Soviet Anthem are "The Unbreakable, Union..."

[@VPZealouZ]

Don’t label something with the prefix “Un” Can confirm with the “Unsinkable” titanic.

[@ZEEROXCD-izzy]

And the tape drops for a second at that part lmaoao

[@garryhowes7274]

@@VPZealouZ the breakable ion

[@seronymus]

@@ZEEROXCD-izzywhy do you have e-girl vibes

[@Sketch-Motion]

@@garryhowes7274 Can confirm, ION is the only TV channel that I get on my antenna with a perfect signal.

[@Rahhh._]

Goodbye Comrade Mikhail ✊😔

[@michal.nowaczewski782]

Imagine a situation in which you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another one...

[@persianjew1746]

The sort of sad thing is that Gorbachev was apparently 20 minutes late to the USSR flag falling. I dont know if this is true

[@crazyd4ve875]

He stopped at the Pizza Hut and got lost

[@Limacy]

He probably couldn’t care less. Not every Soviet liked living in it.

[@angiebyrne6249]

Imagine being late to the collapse of your own country

[@cyrosubod2317]

I really believe its also hard for him to see the flag lowered

[@cvkaustubh7521]

ACTUALLY GOOD THING COZ HES A COMMUNIST & HATES SEEING IT HAPPEN

[@TheRealMarx]

I love the old advertisements so much more than the ones we have now. Just because how the old adds get to the point. Instead of doing a long ass skit that has nothing to do with the product.

[@erusthaliel1568]

Commercials now be like: "When the drip is drippy"

[@cheekychupakabra]

my goodness. this makes me have goosebumps and feel emotional

[@user-yy2ge4wn7l]

28:05 last words of USSR 28:23 USSR has left the server 28:24 Russia has joined the server

[@callenvlogs5989]

Last online 32 years ago

[@thecerebralassasin1504]

@@callenvlogs5989 last seen 25 dec 1991

[@spkanava]

91

[@SOFTWAREMASTER]

Imagine the comment section when *Soviet Union Restarts*

[@yoshidip3736]

SOFTWARE MASTER ah fuck LARRY WE GOT A TIME TRAVELER

[@Georges_IV]

SOFTWARE MASTER soviet reunion

[@esoscorridasos105]

Nice

[@pollutXD]

More communisim

[@robloxtriothecommenter6639]

@@Georges_IV our reunion

[@MiguelRodriguez-nt5eq]

The ABC opening music brings back a time when America was united and equally patriotic. I miss those days.

[@Firitesen]

As of today, Mikahail Gorbachev has died. August 30th/31st, 2022 Final General Secretary of the USSR

[@RustRebirth]

the dictator

[@haralampos_hara]

Boris during Christmas 1991: VADIM BLYAT

[@menticek]

Exactly :D

[@haralampos_hara]

@Stuff by Zibib it's a joke dude relax

[@jrexx2841]

@Stuff by Zibib He meant Boris Yeltsin

[@zaralexanderiiiofrussia2525]

Gulag Christmas

[@anakinskywalker9962]

VADIM BLYAT

[@AE_AnarchistAlexcianEmpire69Bi]

USSR: Collapses Gorbachev’s Daughter: 18:59

[@Rain-rm3ky]

LOL😂😭

[@AE_AnarchistAlexcianEmpire69Bi]

@@Rain-rm3ky Y e s

[@trxjanhorse2400]

Had a capitalist addiction

[@AE_AnarchistAlexcianEmpire69Bi]

@@trxjanhorse2400 Lol

[@jwally1434]

nah gorbachev was probably happy

[@danglam23]

Today marks the 30th year since the fall of the Union

[@janoskadar9164]

Unbelievable....

[@nachocheeseburritos9710]

Sweet so be it

[@joshuam.6027]

That old GE ad is such a vibe

[@YokozunaNumber1]

The irony of the collapse is that, in hindsight, the world was a saner place with the two superpowers keeping everyone else, including each other, in check.

[@guifdcanalli]

US actually decreased a lot as a world superpower after the URSS collapse

[@FATHOLLYWOODB123]

@@guifdcanalli How? It is the only superpower in the world and is still growing!

[@05KAR]

You clearly don't know how it was to live under soviet occupation, there was nothing "sane" about that wicked system.

[@figurefiguras4104]

@@05KAR and u are the one who does, right? XD

[@05KAR]

@@figurefiguras4104 Right. I was born in Poland in 1981, a day before soviet puppet gen. Jaruzelski introduced martial law.

[@fobypawz418]

In Russia, the government decides itself when to change it's government.

[@woxof46]

USSR: *last online 30 years ago*

[@vladutzu2016]

"An era has come to an end"... not yet, aparently.

[@Memeway_]

28:03 No matter how big a empire is, it will always fall down to the ground

[@toddsmitts]

There were many empires that were larger or lasted longer. The largest in terms of land and population was the British Empire, which peaked in the early 20th century. (The term "the sun never sets on the British Empire" was meant to reference the fact that its territories spanned the globe and therefore some part of it was always in daylight). The Ottoman Empire lasted over 600 years, while some portion of the Roman Empire lasted for nearly 1500.

[@sovietunion4484]

@@toddsmitts if you add Russian empire it lasted 3 centuries

[@centralgermanymapping7903]

That anthem actually made me sad

[@dreamer2260]

It's sad to see the flag fall with that anthem. The death of a dream. Especially considering what followed.

[@farotv4232]

As a broadcast media practitioner myself, early 90s news broadcasts seem so authentic and brilliant. I guess everything has had to evolve.

[@mjbgames4963]

The only time in the 90s that the world experienced peace.

[@nemzi8969]

Yeah usa bombing middle east

[@salahabdalla368]

Just a year later NATO invade Yugoslavia lol

[@mat2000100]

Rwanda and Yugoslavia: Are we a joke to you?

[@randomworld4662]

Desert storm African countries war Bosnia war Chechen war Pakistan India kargal war Afghanistan civil war That's all happen in 90s

[@charusharma7927]

average american citizen *

[@estiandcountryhumansdiscon4320]

Ussr: bye Me: bye comrade Last talked: 26 years ago

[@stummstefan9735]

😢

[@azaryaendrayustiawan5618]

You stole this comment (-_-)

[@estiandcountryhumansdiscon4320]

@@azaryaendrayustiawan5618 this is *OUR* comment section r u a Capitalist?

[@azaryaendrayustiawan5618]

@@estiandcountryhumansdiscon4320 O_o

[@estiandcountryhumansdiscon4320]

@@azaryaendrayustiawan5618 you are 100% Capitalist

[@user-fz4dx3bk9v]

Soviet Union: I go bye America: You will be back later? Soviet Union: Yes America: OK bye Soviet Union: Bye -_Soviet Union left the chat._ -_Russia joined the chat._

[@BurgerTankCoach]

What about other states?

[@user-fz4dx3bk9v]

@@BurgerTankCoach afk

[@brianiskandar9917]

You also from countryhuman fandom?

[@youraveragemorononyoutube4435]

@@brianiskandar9917 no

[@gummi9948]

This isn't something you'd usually see. Mighty empires, such as the size of the USSR would usually die in a flurry of gunshots and explosions. But the USSR ended on a somewhat light note.

[@randomhooman3236]

1922 : soviet union because of *Vladmir* lenin 2022 : soviet reunion because of *Vladmir* putin

[@mathshouldntdie9996]

Men named Vladimir like Soviet Unions

[@Gmmmw13]

Vladimir Putin is bringing back Russian Empire not Soviet Union

[@Miroo777]

Thank you so much for keeping the ads in, this video is perfect time capsule

[@ShatnerMethod]

You're very welcome, Miroo! (I thought so too.)

[@krateproductions4872]

@@ShatnerMethod where did you find out this?

[@Perehenaa]

Gorbachev wasn't only "The Last President of the Soviet Union". Gorbachev was the *only* President of the Soviet Union. He created that post during his final year as General Secretary of the Communist Party.

[@ApollonTheGreek]

RIP Mikhail Gorbachev

[@slovakpatriot5433]

The Best Christmas Gift!

[@GLOmar-my6xc]

Dude, it's the most fateful moment in history, I don't know how those who accompanied this moment felt

[@Bosnia_BBRP]

They felt happy

[@robocatro]

@@Bosnia_BBRP Not all, many people lost their jobs, and had their lives turned upside down. It went both ways.

[@Bosnia_BBRP]

@@robocatro fair point like Russia during Yeltsin wasn’t the best place to live.

[@Bosnia_BBRP]

But still life in the USSR did suck

[@Virsho]

@@Bosnia_BBRP it was better than life todays post soviet

[@ooka7705]

Top 10 Saddest Anime Endings

[@_loss_]

It was a horrible anime. Its good they cancelled it.

[@forind934]

@@_loss_ U WOT M8?

[@blagoevski336]

@@_loss_ Indeed

[@_loss_]

@Zap That's in my top 10 animes of all time

[@_loss_]

@David Ion My list, my rules. 💲💲💲🎩

[@otaddiction]

30 years later today and I'm not over it 😞

[@seronymus]

How about now

[@removebe4flight]

So today, the world is not definitely better than ussr era.

[@aby110]

Yup. The capitalists won the Cold War and then they want to blame communism for the consequences of capitalist restoration (militarism, national division, corruption...). The world hasn't been made any safer with the absence of an international socialist bloc, only more dangerous and unstable.

[@thejoin4687]

It was a sad day. Santa didn't deliver the PC game I was hoping for.

[@polishcow8786]

santa was sad about USSR dissolve

[@weissballanimations2760]

Nah he was happy. He could now dilevever presents in the Soviet Union.

[@cristianotv4673]

P

[@cristianotv4673]

P

[@allthingsgolf10]

The saddest video on youtube It was 68 years and 361 days We were so close

[@iraqmapping]

Super close

[@Rawhen_Rajew-aka-Rajubhai]

No kazakhistan stayed for 4 more days when Russia left the union. So yeah it's exact 69 years

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

@@Rawhen_Rajew-aka-Rajubhai As sad as the decolonization of Africa? I mean Mother Russia's chief is a KGB agent. Why do they need subordinates?

[@Rawhen_Rajew-aka-Rajubhai]

@@jussim.konttinen4981 did you actually mean to reply to me?

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

@@Rawhen_Rajew-aka-Rajubhai It's not a reply, but a question.

[@elintocable0072]

RIP Gurbachov 😔🥲.

[@Stps872]

We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (to say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

[@ShatnerMethod]

Putin's Russia has been Rickrolled. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

[@jffj35]

🇺🇦your丶mom

[@Stps872]

@@ShatnerMethod yep

[@jffj35]

🇺🇦your丶mother

[@Stps872]

glory to ukraine!!! I Rick rolled Russia

[@leonardopaine9296]

US in 1991: I got one less problem without ya China in 21st century: You're gonna hear me roarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr US: Oh oh trouble trouble trouble

[@notoriouseagle1074]

US: But I'm not gonna Fall, bitch. Don't Fall on my faith.

[@No-xv1fp]

Leonardo Paine Well China is a paper tiger

[@JunshuLiu]

Well it’s quite different in this case. There are arguments between China and the US, but these two can’t live without each other

[@sachin2744]

China will be the next USSR.

[@MelkorTolkien]

Russia: *I'm back*

[@Madridy1996]

I'm not crying. WE'RE ALL crying

[@user-nh8ux7wq9m]

k

[@therobloxjet]

I’m not crying i’m glad soviet ended

[@ebinboiz8914]

Baltic, Ukrainian, Eastern eruopean, turkic and siberian people certainly didn't cry

[@usaball2255]

I'm *HAPPY!*

[@GSquid92]

All crying cause it was great day

[@DP-hy4vh]

Thirty years ago today: 12/25/2021

[@kebab1842]

1991: down 2022: up

[@CristoVelatoso]

The kid that has born 10 minutes after the dissolution: F I WANTED TO BE SOVIET BOI

[@zaralexanderiiiofrussia2525]

But he was born in kazakhstan 😎 Boi: I'm soviet for 3 days!

[@pranavjoshi1471]

This is underrated

[@spkanava]

91

[@danielsmirnov7379]

“Few of the people mourned as they lived their live under the flag”. I “few” is a cheap way to downplay the sadness a majority of Russians still face

[@quakeknight9680]

Heavy understatement.

[@thunderbird1921]

I wonder if Russia and Eastern Europe in general had received support from the West to help start their new lives (much like the Marshall Plan did for many Europeans after World War II) if the attitude would be significantly different. We can merely speculate today, but as an American the older I get the more I feel we should have done more.

[@rtcp2020]

Today we lost a comrade. RIP Mikhail Gorbachev

[@randomworld4662]

Traitor

[@comrade_commissar3794]

Rip bozo You will not be missed.

[@gianniskalantaridis3772]

Who's here after the 30 years since its collapse

[@BrillyYumWillyYum]

Her:Ugh he’s probably cheating on me right now Me and the boys:

[@EllaGP22]

The news anchor looks like he just came from a Star Trek shoot.

[@supersobat1]

28:05

[@T-Rex-nm1se]

Who's here on the 30th anniversary?

[@BinhNguyen-uw1tc]

Me

[@user-dt6ey3oy6h]

🙋‍♂️

[@spkanava]

91

[@brosephh7130]

I applaud Gorbachev’s efforts, as ineffective as they were. He wasn’t an ideologue like Stalin, Brezhnev, and Chairman Mao. It’s not very often that career politicians put forth reforms that strip away their own power. That give political rights back to the people, that were once stripped away. Then walk away from power. Imagine if the US Congress enacted a law for congressional term limits. It would never happen. All governments face the same problem: Power attracts pathological personalities

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

Wonderfully said.

[@anormalyoungster3661]

@@daddy_1453 Th..They were a communist dictatorship...

[@Madara_Uchiha69420]

Well Chairman Mao was of China , Brezhnev did introduce many reforms which made USSR prosper in the 70s , Stalin built the USSR a superpower , though I get why anyone would hate on Stalin tho , the dude was responsible for the death of millions And yes , you're right about Gorbachev , I'll give it to you for that But Yeltsin ruined it

[@Madara_Uchiha69420]

@@shubhsiddhartha9409 I hate Mao Zedong more than I hate Hitler or Churchill

[@salahabdalla368]

But he still got his country to stop exisiting Freedom and democracy dont mean shit without your country intact

[@britamericaball2505]

USSR Collapsed. People of USSR: *panik* US Media: do you want to be a volunteer at the Mt. Juliet Community Center, or a deal in Sears, here watch a ad from General Electric about their deals with the Tokyo Electric Company

[@nutellapancake6957]

My father was instrumental in a way of helping to dissolve the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) in 1991. His career for awhile involved traveling around the world for the company he worked for throughout 1984 to the early two thousands. He lived in Japan for most of the 1980s after leaving high school in New Jersey. He would meet with certain delegates and helped in bringing about new policies designed to address certain issues such as the spread of Communism. He has since then retired to take care of me and my brother and is now in his early 60s. But he told me he will never forget that night on Christmas Day when the Soviet Union finally dissolved. From seeing the Berlin Wall being torn down to the Flag of the Soviet Union lowered for the last time.

[@SpencerUS]

My mom was born December 25 1980. In The Soviet Union…

[@starchy101]

My dad, if he admits it or not... Misses the Soviet Union.

[@FluhFoxYT]

I miss it to :c

[@USSR_CCCP]

@@FluhFoxYT Are you Ukrainian?

[@solelgammal]

Same

[@whywhere1768]

your dad is an idiot

[@Br.soldier99]

Loser

[@burn_out]

"Союз Нерушимый" Are you sure about that?

[@dosipov1]

Didn’t Patrick Swayze get you in red dawn???

[@otheooo]

Нет...?

[@QFBPLR]

Yes, he's Donald Trump

[@franzliszt556]

Да здравствуйте

[@junior427_m8]

Russians: Sad for the fall Americans:Happy for the fall The rest of the world: happy for the fall Internet users: MEMES

[@xAnttern]

R.I.P gorbachev, you won’t be forgotten

[@valentinbarinov]

or forgiven

[@user-ti5cn3hv4g]

​@@valentinbarinovCry about it.

[@valentinbarinov]

@@user-ti5cn3hv4g i am

[@spkanava]

92

[@Eric_Stoneheart420]

Chernobyl was the spark that started it all.

[@Perehenaa]

The spark would be placed much earlier: the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s. It damaged the legitimacy of the Soviet military, and caused a reform in internal affairs by introducing transparency, leading to growing public dissent against the Communist Party and bringing them their downfall.

[@ultimatespidybawlz2198]

@@Perehenaa I think after Stalin died, that's when it started falling apart slowly

[@capncook923]

@@ultimatespidybawlz2198 nah after Brezhnev came to power the economy just went into a stalemate and it started slowly collapsing

[@johnmemes6447]

Tomilica yeah

[@bubbagrace2997]

The 1980 Polish Crisis was the beginning of cracks being formed in the eastern bloc