The Soviet Coup: Day Three, August 21st 1991 

Why is Day Two missing from youtube :(

Imagine if Yeltsin had actually been competent and not a incompetent drunk

How to create a fake hero.

I wonder if we ever see the 'rebuilding' plan published. All we have is judge it by its fruit.

I happened to be there in Moscow on August 19, after having spent the summer in Prague on a research fellowship (I conducted interviews with writers and artists on how the liberation from Communism had changed their creativity). But once I arrived in Moscow, there were tanks in the streets, churning up asphalt, Russians crying, then roadblocks en route to Red Square and the Parliament Building. My camera came out immediately. The sight of patriotic, brave Russians demonstrating at the Parliament Building (where Yeltsin remained holed up to defend the new democracy instituted by Gorbachev) was one of the bravest images, events, I've ever witnessed. But bravest of all were the young soldiers in a tank sent by the then-self-empowered hardline Communists to threaten Yeltsin and his supporters in the Parliament Building, which was circled by tanks, turrets aimed at the building. But these young men cranked their turret around so that it indicated that they were defending (!) the building, defending democracy. Three young faces emerged from that opening at the top of the tank, smiling but obviously frightened. Their fellow Russians cheered wildly, threw them cigarettes and even flowers, yelled "Spacebo!" (Russian for thank you!) and they beamed. Thank GOD, they survived because Gorbachev remained in power. I hope they were given medals! Such tremendous courage! I left on the 22, landed in NYC much later to hear the pilot announce that the Russian coup had been shut down. What a great relief that was! But you learn the fragility of democracy during an experience like that -- and the great importance of standing up for your country and for what you believe in.

Where is day two?

Last president Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev is pass away great leader

Who's watching Gorbachev on 11/04/2022

The sequel is coming soon 😂

Tallinn 91

I do my tax whenever Russia has a coup or attempted coup. Nobody has ever been dragged out of their house at gunpoint for doing their taxes.

1:30. Dig the bullet proof shield that two of his guards are holding in front of Yeltsin. For those of you who weren't around or were very young, this was the world turning upside down. This was what 8 years of Reagan, Margret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul set out to do. My father was a guy who grew up in Phoenix during the depression and had a gift for languages. He basically taught himself to speak and read Russian, French (although his mom spoke French) and German. When the war broke out my dad was 18. He enlisted and when they found out his language skills he was sent to OCS and then to The "Office of The Coordinator of Information," which would become the OSS then the CIA. Anyhow, long story short is he was an intelligence officer that mostly translated documents and stuff. But we grew up always talking USSR and the Eastern Bloc, etc. My father thought the wall (literal one and figurative one) would never come down. But Reagan, Thatch, and Pope JP really put the pressure on Gorby. He just couldn't see keeping those borders closed off with the way the world was going. The Pope was riling up the Poles (John Paul was Polish), telling them that they had a God giving right to freedom. The Fucking KGB hired a Bulgarian gunman to assassinate the POPE! Can you imagine? Believe me when I tell you this: Ronald Reagan put policies in place that, along with the help of JP and Thatcher, brought down an empire. There are one billion people living in freedom today because of Reagan. Life in the East was not good at all. Truly the saddest part is that Gorbachov and Yeltsin, although both had their flaws, wanted to be very close with the West. They wanted our help to rebuild and start a democracy. They'd never had one. But the rise of certain oligarchs and Putin of course meant that we would go back to being enemies. And there is no need.

Nice margarine on the screen

This fool destroyed his country.

Which fault is it Gorbochovs or Jeltsins faul? In schools exam i wrote Jeltsin*

Of course they send a guy named Marx for this XD

Gorbachev And Yeltzin played for CIA. And the people of USSR struggled after that .. And RUSSIA lost the poer too thats the history

So sad watching this. these days of euphoria, hope and freedom. Now Russia has a dictator who persecutes his own people and his neighbours. Where did it go wrong?

And now, we have another soviet union 2.0, the European Union....

The End of Ruthless Rules.

The young generation hated Communism rightfully so and what's so ironic is so many blindly embrace it in America today.

I will never agree with Gorbachev's views on many things. But he was a courageous leader, and he took steps and made decisions that took the chains off a billion people.

Russia lost power in world forever

It is wrong to change your nation Russia Yelsin was a loser he loved to destroy a superpower.

Gorbachev continued his sex party as that was required to release the burden from soviet running state

SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦

Soviet union fir se vajud me aana jaruri hai

Cia fucking job

this is what MAGAists expected to happen on Janurary 6th.