The Last Ditch Attempt to Save the USSR - August Coup of 1991 (Short Animated Documentary) 

Finally. A political ideal that represents me.

Truly the most ascendant political ideology

the change to alcoholism came with stalin tho ...

Yes, he was so motivated against the coup because it sobered him up, he didn't let that happen again!

@@satanicdude No, he means that Eltsin was an alcoholic

Classic love story

That's quite ironic since by that time China already went through reforms and started to embrace more and more a capitalist economy, not to mention that they were already buddies with the USA and supported the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War.

@@RyoKasai25 Apparently PRC was playing tsundere card too much.

Lmao

China needs USSR to attract most of the attention of the US.

Yanaev and the committee just got drunk.

@@shurik121 Yanayev later claimed that he had opposed the coup but had been threatened with retribution if he did not go along with it. It's unclear whether this was truly the case, but either way, Yanayev does seem to have been a figurehead who spent the entire coup in a drunken stupor. KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov was the true leader of the coup.

No Internet yet but I belonged to a "bulletin board". People with large computer setups at home would host lots of groups and chat and exchange with other bulletin boards. We started receiving daily, multi daily, accounts of what was happening in Moscow. Rumor was somebody in Moscow with a bulletin board connection thru Finland was posting the events they were witnessing. Very cool.

It's like if extremist minor political parties actually got voted in.

Pretty much like US Republicans.

Interesting

AC/DC Metallica Pantera The Black Crowes E.S.T.

@@nesiras6696 Interesting that the lineup changed. I went to the one in Hanover and it was Black Crows as the openers, then Motley Crew, Queensryche, Metallica and AC/DC.

@@emceedoctorb3022 That is interesting! A little jealous that you got to see Queensryche haha.

@@nesiras6696 And Geoff Tate did Eyes of a Stranger live and hit the notes perfectly. I honestly thought when they started playing it he would do a Jon Bon Jovi and bottle it but no, he did it live. What a voice that man has!

*russians*

Sort of reminds me of Asimov's Foundation books... that man was a genius

That is how Chernobyl also worked comrade.

Jefrings cha cha real smooth

@Foul Gerbil it also helps making sure you'll be supported by the people

Soon we will have 10 minute history back

History Matter episodes are normally 4 minutes and this one is 6 minutes. 6+4 = 10 Minute History

@@ivanamarkotic5398 Oh I wish. I know that quick videos are probably better for viewcounts, but I still find 10 minute videos so much more entertaining and informative...

@@tobiashahn645 Most of them lack a lot of useful information as well.

Corona spoiled

Yeltsin was a hero. Too bad he failed with Putin but I guess when you are given the choice of saying, "You're the new president" or getting a bullet in the brain, you'll talk.

And look where Russia is now 💀

What if they killed with a false flag

They could’ve just gave him a free tab at the nearest bar, he would’ve probably drank himself to death pretty fast

At the time, western media reported that troops were indeed sent to Yeltsin's home to arrest him. But he was already on his way to join they crowds.

On the first morning of the coup, Prime Minister Pavlov was apparently so badly intoxicated that he was at the point of hysteria and had to have doctors called in...

I'd assume it's James Bisonette

God bless him

Bissonnette? Bissonnet?

its probably just James bond, just with an slight name change

Skye Chapelle

Lmafo

Good thing they're too smart to fall for that

Finland : yeah, they also said the Roman empire fell centuries ago. While I, the fourth Rome, still exist!

Technically the HRE still exist in Liechtenstein

@Baldur Moldova and Transnistria are both lands of Romania. In an ideal world they would be reunited, the few ukrainian majority settlements in Transnistria given to Ukraine and the ethnic russian population expelled.

It wasn't inevitable, but what really kicked things off were Yeltsin's actions immediately after Gorbachev returned - Yeltsin used the opportunity to grab more control (why not - if not not for Yeltsin, the coup might have succeeded). It became clear to the other Soviet Republics that Russia was going to be in charge - that there would be no Center (as it was called) or the Center would be powerless. Ukraine was was not interested in being subservient to Russia. So it declared independence, subject to a referendum, Dec 1, 1991, which voted overwhelmingly for independence (including a majority in Crimea and heavy majorities in Donetsk and Luhansk, the most ethnic Russian parts of Ukraine). It was Yeltsin's post-coup actions to kneecap the Center which caused disintegration as much as the coup itself. He was motivated by a desire to kill the Center and move power to Russia and didn't understand how that would be viewed in Ukraine.

@@cv990a4 Yes and no. Yeltsin certainly used the coup to grab more power, but only in Russia itself, which Yeltsin declared sovereign from the USSR before it officially collapsed. The thing is that Yeltsin’s takeover of Russia probably would have happened regardless, as the leaders of the constituent republics (including Yeltsin) and Gorbachev had all agreed to a new Union treaty that would allow the Soviet constituent republics to become sovereign states. The Soviet Union would remain but as a looser federation like the European Union but with some more common institutions like a currency and the military. In fact, the treaty was about to be announced and formally ratified a few days after the coup. Basically everyone recognized that the Soviet Union as it had existed since the Russian Revolution was toast. But the mostly likely scenario until the coup was that the RSFSR under Yeltsin would have coexisted alongside Ukraine, Belarus, the Central Asian republics, and possibly the Caucasus under a looser Soviet government led by Gorbachev. The problem is, the coup was carried out by Soviet Cabinet members who did not want to give tight central control, and wanted most of all to prevent the ratification of the treaty because it would destroy their political power. The reason why the coup was significant is because it created massive and ultimately unresolvable commitment problems. None of the republic leaders could be assured afterwards that the Soviet Union’s leaders would follow the terms of any new treaty/constitution. You are right the republics were also weary of Russia dominating a post-Soviet political bloc, and this is why the Commonwealth of Independent States established as the formal legal successor to the USSR failed. However, the coup is what flipped the players’ interests from “Maybe we can keep the USSR going in some highly democratized and decentralized form to maintain some measure of internal stability and international power,” to “The USSR just needs to die.”

I completely agree, this coup was the nail in the coffin for the USSR

Gorbachev wasn't a hero, he wasn't a monster or a traitor either. I don't think he is the only one to blame for the USSR disolution, he just was a very mediocre president on chaotic times.

rest in piss bozo

​@@Rayitolaser569He did what he could. Unfortunately, this has now lead to Putin 🤦🏽

⁠@@YaBoiBaxter2024well it’s more like Boris lead to Putin getting his position

@@The_whales yup

untill they tried a burger

@@bigbrain2178 Indeed

Pizza Hut was better anyways

@@bigbrain2178 Borger

@@rin_etoware_2989 obviously never had mcdonalds pizza

Hello oversimplified fan

So the hardliners had to concede Wow thanks Boris! That was a close one!

Hi in charge, I'm _Oversimplified_

when you think about, a drunk Russian in a tank is about the last thing you want to tangle with

@@georgeamesfort3408 No problem, and thanks for the great freedom you've given us.

Holy f*ck; talk about an absolute shit show!! Bay of Pigs 2.0!

@@hughjass1044 except this time the US government didn’t even support it

@insidejob yes exactly that

@insidejob Literally yes

@insidejob no, it was an E-6 Green beret (ret) who ran a Pmc that worked with Venezuelan defectors (supposed to be 200 ended up being 60) alongside a coke dealing general and a corrupt politician, both from Venezuela

@Lord Farquaad They weren't hence the reason you take the Siberian railway.

@Lord Farquaad Yes, it was very legal since Gorbachev came into power. Since the USSR's existence, people could follow religion, just it was hugely suppressed under Lenin and Stalin's rule, after de-stalinization, the harshness of state atheism cooled down.

Downfall of the world's superpower? Let me fix that for you...Downfall of one of the world's superpowers. The US would have murdered the USSR in say 1990 had they gone to war.

The next superpower which has already fallen is the US. All hail the CCP! They’re the superpower now.

@@Sinn0100 planned economy killed the ussr, not the usa

Starlin won WW2 he was a peacemaker.

He's a peacemaker in the same sense the Colt .45 was. Both killed a whole lot of people, and no one's as peaceful as a corpse.

@@rouvenmuller7662 Gulag same level as french bagne,as us prison,there was more prisonners in usa in 30s than in gulag lmao,stop bs

The_red_ barron Buruuuuuh

artyom CCCP О Боже you’re a slavaboo if I’ve ever seen one

Same thing happened in my country Romania in 89

Lmao

This just shows how communism should remain just a meme

@Черногорский истребитель You mean you want Soviet Russia because I'm not living as a communist again

@Черногорский истребитель I mean that I want to live in a democratic country in peace. If you want to be in a communist Russia, ok, but I will definitely live in Romania from now on as a capitalist

"I would prefer not to".

This could also be referencing Corbyn vs Johnson.

Boris Drunksin: *Talks back in vodka*

Same with Putin

"He said no! Should we still do it?"

was that where the japanese dude commited suicide

More like work of actionism art

That guy was a brilliant writer with a samarui obsession who wanted a glorious suicide to live up to the ideals of a more feudal Japan. It was 99% theater from a guy far too inside of his own head.

Tfw the coup fails because the President used facetime.

Turkey's "coup"

Bitch please, remember the Kapp-Putsch from 1920 in Germany? Only lasts 100 hours and failed, because the people put down the work and one bureaucrat didn't pay the soldiers that participated on the coup.

Raki is Greek, not Turkish.

The Greek Pyjama Coup, where the conspirators were arrested in the middle of the night? (Hence the Pyjama reference in the name)

This is a returning joke though. It was first featured in his Collapse of the USSR video if I remember correctly. :)

@@MrZebeda no, it was in the video about soviets reacting to the moon landing.

@@arnold3768 oh yeah, you are correct! :)

BoomBler “Turns out we’re poor”

Latin, not English

Jedi: James Bizanet will decide your fate. History Matters: I AM James Bizanet

Paulo Henrique Ferreira de Almeida Not yet

@@itzimperiumxvi2620 It's treason, then.

Paulo Henrique Ferreira de Almeida *Duel Begins*

ItzImperium XVI History Matters: RARGHHHHHH *Spins towards Jedi*

Weren't you dead kim

Yes. Many sensationalist documentaries portray Transnistria as the "last Soviet holdout" and all that, but communism is long gone. I visited the breakaway country twice, and apart from the state symbols, the place is almost completely like provincial Russia. If you go to Russia you can find the same monuments, the occasional Lenin, soviet symbols and flags during state holidays and especially Victory Day and so on. If anything it is cleaner, safer, and calmer than provincial Russia, but that's like the only major difference. And Transnistrians make better cognac. ;) I really enjoyed my time in Tiraspol and Bendery.

thought you were dead. also how are you everywhere?

@@MrZebeda Occasional lenin statue is quite underexaggerating for Russia. Like especially in Moscow you have Soviet symbolics everywhere

@@MrZebeda So why are they still a breakaway republic? Why not join Moldova? Why not help Moldova join the EU? Why not seek a solution, ANY solution that would allow it recognition? Or at least stability? Maybe accept recognition of independence in exchange for kicking out the russian soldiers there? Maybe even seek joining the EU as an independent country?

TNO REFERENCE!?!?

The Great Trial awaits

Oh no they're coming!

When you stage a coup to avenge the teutons even when you won the war.

@@d3ds1r ...you know Yazov was a real life Soviet military leader, right?

They did try to depose him again in a few years

seriously, wtf?

He wasn’t Prime Minister. Wrong job

Instead they chose to drink Vodka, so they couldn't get angry enough.

@@BrkCntkn So you're suggesting that if they'd stuck to gin ("makes a man mean!") they would have succeeded? :)

And about the formation of the Eu.

Man the break up of Yugoslavia will be boring and confusion at the same time

Should he do that,he should turn off the comments.Ex-Yugoslavian peoples are not so friendly to each other upon discussing things like that.

@@apreciadordobrasil4932 I noticed that. Hahahaha They argue all the time, that’s why Yugoslavs are the best.

Aye

When is it NOT relevant?

it can't be relevant to capitalist countries

One year later, looking back on the handling of the Corona virus by the U S government, your comment was sopt on!

1000% correct, is Harris-Biden the best Zuckerberg could get for his HALF BILLION DOLLARS ?

@@robc4191 The US government has always in general been quite inept.

To be fair, Soviet tanks were trash. They were designed for quantity rather than quality.

Actually I would say it's Cpt. Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek the next generation.

I saw it and I'm still laughing 🤣

Wait, where are the crewman of My Favorite WW2 carrier?!

@@ghostarmy1106 At least the Big E's name will live on forever, even if it's under the umbrella of a scifi franchise.

Rich McGee I believe one of the next Ford Class carriers slated for construction will receive the name Enterprise.

If you are about to watch documentary on the coup, pay attention to Yanaev's hands

IQsveen at least he became a bestselling novelist while in ‘prison’

at least he had Ludendorff as a supporter

@@blitzkrieg2928 not just ludendorf...... Even President Hindenburg admired him. Later ....

At least the russians did manage to take some control of the goverment.

@@kanhaiyakumarsingh1288 Hindenburg was a staunch hater of Hitler. His straight up opposition was the reason Hitler didn't get to be a chancellor after the 1932 general election (in which the NSDAP got better results than in the 1933 elections where Hitler finally got to the chancellorship through a coalition of center-right parties). He thought he was an uncultured thug and unworthy of any position of public relevance. Yes, after the Night of the Long Knifes there was a congratulatory telegram signed by Hindenburg. By that stage Hindenburg was mentally gone and mere months away from dying of sheer decrepitude. So that doesn't really count as he was so senile by that stage that he didn't really understand what had gone on in that purge.

spoke too soon

@@greyghost2492 true this was just a teaser trailer

so was Yeltsin- Gorbi Come Back

Welcome back history

@@smokingthereefer92 *we totally loved having this stress back* (Starts digging a shelter)

@@nukclear2741 can I join, COMRADE? XD

The scary thing is this might repeat itself in the next year

@@CloudWalkBeta of course comrade!

It was until this comment that I remember Yeltsin kinda had a drunkard reputation.

@@POCLEE "The Us gave us crystal meth And Yeltsin drank himself to death.

Hyold my beer and vodka *hicc*

Good comment:*Likes* THX FOR LIKES!!-*dislikes*

Sees good comment: :D Sees the bottom of the comment "Thx for the likes!": :(

So.... 1838

TrygveBlackTiger Media yes black tiger media. I’m not going to fact check you but 1838 was still a long time ago...

I think he means 879, when Louis II took the throne of Frankia.

Just like Lavr Kornilov's coup

The original accelerationists

capitalism time

It’s like ripping the wires out of a SAM site hoping it would be disabled but instead it fires all its missiles

@@The_whales "Hey... it looks like the SAM turret just fired all it's missiles at once... ehh it's probably nothi-"

@「 Deadpoppin 」 The failed coup led to both the immediate collapse of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the USSR four months later.

@「 Deadpoppin 」 I’m not sure what happened six months later but I think its the dissolution of the USSR or maybe the Soviet Union is renamed the Russian Federation Edit: Okay so I found out about something that happened in March 1992, six months after the failed coup, there’s the Treaty of Federation, which was a treaty signed on 31 March 1992 in Moscow between the Russian government and 18 of the 20 autonomous republics of Russia. The autonomous regions agreed to remain part of Russia in return for a greater autonomy and a larger share of natural resources.

Neither could the British.

💀

Mikhail Bychkov i just imagine an old woman kick the soviets ass

@@wilmanman7783 she probably wasn't old back the :)

in fact we can see that eventually KGB coup won

@@Ivan_StandWithUkraine Yeltsin Learned not to Trust the west after Nato destroyed Yugoslavia. The Russian people will fight Nato and the global oligarchy until all of its taint is wiped from this earth!

@@command_unit7792 Oh, So why there are so many Russian Immigrants in the west then!?

😂😂

Just another day at the office.

Everything is fine in the world: There is a civil war in Russia

Original CoD 4 story line was literally about first and second Chechen wars and Fall of the USSR

No because civil war wasn’t on the cards in 1991, and cod 4 is dumb

I think it would have been better if the tank was converted into a bin

Which took balls. They could have just killed him.

@@TestTest12332 yeah

I managed to notice this as well.

Everywhere I look, I see you. (German flag)

The question of the referendum was: "Do you consider necessary the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics in which the rights and freedom of an individual of any ethnicity will be fully guaranteed?" It had no reference to the political system of the reformed, future union. There is a minor inaccuracy in his video because at the time of the referendum they did not really have an idea what the name of the reformed state would be.

@@MrZebeda is that an accurate translation? Because if so, that's a rather dodgy phrasing. It would mean people who wanted no reform _and_ people who wanted to break up the union would vote "no".

​@@iapetusmccool The context is that Russia largely controlled the federal government so the referendum occurred during a time of worsening national divisions. Ultimately every referendum is oversimplified.

The question states: *".. preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"* which implies that the power would still belong to the Soviets. And this is exactly what people voted for. And right after the referendum that Soviet power was dispersed by the tanks. Basically people were fooled as the question itself was made so it could be interpreted both ways.

@@iapetusmccool how, exactly?

comunists' madness(which is their normal behavior)

Got any photos?

Yes

The Trump supporters on January 6 would also like a word.

@@toddsmitts It's not technically a coup if nobody had weapons and they just walked right in the capitol building. Don't get me wrong here, I don't agree with the riot, but it's not as violent as many described.

​@@Pavilion411 uh, they had bombs, zip-ties, and intent of preventing the certification of the election and thereby installing Trump for another term. Meets all the criteria of a coup attempt, particularly the last part.

@@TheFreeThinkingMan It's hard to know what the truth is when all media sources and individual reporters are ideologically motivated and willing to lie in order to further their cause. I suspect the reality is far less shocking.

Stalin was not viewed as a god. He was the genius who defeated Hitlerian fascism.

@Avery the Cuban-American Transnistria: "AM i a joke to you, TOVARISHCHI??"

The Kazakh prime minister recently renamed the capital city of Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan, after the previous prime minister Nursultan Nazarbayev who was Turkmenbashi-Light. :D Nazarbbayev is still alive and kicking.

@@cosmicwakes6443 Hitlerian fascism? I'm afraid that you have to go back if you think that Hitler was a fascist and that Stalin a genius who single handily defeated Hitler ( because lend-lease and the bombing of German cities wasn't instrumental in his defeat). In the end he died how he deserved; in a puddle of his own piss.

@WarmessageTV Defending Nazism underhandedly by comparing Stalin to Hitler.

Вы маленькая игрушка в наших больших руках...

Did the USSR troops already left Lithuania when they declared independence?

@@attiepollard7847 Nope. And there were armed clashes between Red army, police and KGB and independents in January 91.

@@attiepollard7847 Oh no the Soviet army was still in their bases in Lithuania, and there was some clashes and bloodshed up until the official collapse of the Soviet Union.

@Nazx 36 March 1990 was when Lithuania voted for independence, the Soviet Union did not collapse until December 1991. That is a lot longer than a day.