The Coup That Killed The USSR

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/a/august-1991-s...

[@wizardman3162]

They overthrew an authoritarian state just to become another authoritarian state a few years later 😂 💀

[@HATCH5T]

Yelstin was an authoritarian 😂, Putin was just better at keeping the Country at the right pact

[@user-gj8cw1zv6c]

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

[@GoldenAgeSk8Video]

Right, they should have taken Gorby out earlier as he lead to the collapse of Eastern Europe & the Soviet Union..disastrous.. 😳 🤔 🤦‍♂️

[@Teacher2Polis2XtraRice]

And then Putin came. Change the Russian constitution so he can stay in power until 2036. 😂

[@meso8848]

along with 80% of population that support him... no more dismantling or corruption in Russia and time to build the country over again.

[@patriciaszabo8015]

@@meso8848 Without western technology not even a change. Otherwise Russia can achieve post-WW2 Japan economy miracle.

[@meso8848]

@@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 🤦‍♂️

[@cryptexawm3285]

@@meso8848 corruption hasn't been higher. look at their failing military

[@meso8848]

@@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

[@vyhozshu]

many also protested for the c0oup, against gorb+yeltsin

[@stevev238]

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.

[@GoldenAgeSk8Video]

& Yeltsin, the pathetic drunk-politician that he was, essentially plummeted his country into mob corruption, oligarchy & even WORSE poverty than before… such a “hero”.. 🙄 🤦‍♂️ 😒

[@Vagabund483]

Я свою бабушку спрашивал, про день полета Гагарина, а она свою маму - про день смерти Сталина...

[@aylyi-huh9355]

what a momentous few days. wonder why they didnt teach us this in public school in the US

[@svenjalangner1228]

because you're instead forced to learn all of your 21123124 presidents by heart ;)

[@lilacscentedfushias1852]

@@svenjalangner1228 there’s only been 46 or something similar. That wouldn’t take long to learn.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

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

[@loveussr3663]

🥰🥰🥰

[@romanmoroboshi7914]

@@cryptocsguy9282ты забыл добавить обвал цен на нефть в начале 1980х годов так как Советская экономика зависила от нефтяной иглы

[@SatyaSiddharthaSaladi]

This is sending me anxiety, as these dates coincide very closely with my date of birth

[@TubeHelen]

I would believe this was actually a coup attempt if there were a man with Viking horns seated in Gorbachev's chair.

[@mirekpilsudski]

underrated and vastly underappreciated comment

[@valentinakaramazova1007]

yeah, that turned out great

[@gnas1897]

Chad Yazov and gang vs Virgin Gorbachev and Yelts*in

[@zillsburyy1]

now its one president 4 life

[@stalkerentertainment3671]

Fitting after the retreat of the coalition out of Afghanistan...

[@depressedmidlifecrisistimm3043]

no way TNO reference

[@charles.m.molema4758]

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

[@leomarsubala115]

End of Ruthless days.

[@exposett246]

almost

[@leomarsubala115]

@@exposett246 Yeah your right

[@Virsho]

beginning of

[@nosywendigo592]

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

[@wyattwilbourne530]

It was only the beginning

[@user-ci7we9of6p]

yeah and opening the door for cia to come in

[@Virsho]

one of greatest disasters of 20th century

[@vyhozshu]

that the c0up failed, I agree

[@user-ls8pd1pz3h]

@@vyhozshuthat the coup even had to happen

[@DanielAilenei-ev9bv]

Gen și clonarea de oameni profită de identitatea lor.

[@davidlambe2856]

Yes poland and czech republic was under the Soviets as well

[@pasindukanishka7504]

it should be return as unitery republic

[@200131356]

We need the Soviet Union back now more than ever!

[@pdd60absorbed12]

Cover story told and re-told.

[@daMacadamBlob]

what's the real story?

[@meowmeow1230]

freeddom time, fall of ussr fascism regime !

[@meso8848]

Fascism was Hitler and USSR saved the world from the fascism. You're ignorant

[@ks1withcanc3r20]

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.

[@meso8848]

@@ks1withcanc3r20 great to see some persons have brain ! Good straightforward definition 👍

[@punch3322]

hell yeah, total russian death

[@Zopiexx]

Crony child, tell me what is fascism