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Gorbachev: The Final Hours - ABC Prime Time Live (1991)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ย. 2018
- ABC's Prime Time Live special report on the ceremonial end of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991. Ted Koppel is given access to Gorbachev in the Kremlin for his final official days as head of the USSR. Events leading up to this are also reviewed.
As a history documentary, it's less insightful and analytical, and more dealing with feelings of the moment from an American perspective.
Recorded on December 26, 1991 on a RCA VR671HF VHS hi-fi VCR via an average cable signal from WBRC 6 in Birmingham, Alabama. Includes commercials.
RIP Gorbachev. Thinking about this special that aired on the most historic day in modern times.
He was a monster
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@@peacefulliberal5641 But he was an angel if you compare him to stalin
@@peacefulliberal5641 How was he a monster??
Thanks for uploading such an extremely historical video! The end of the USSR was a huge moment in history!
It is the most terrifying thing in all of humanity..... Gorbachev was a bloody traitor
@@vaishaliphule4679 Communist Party killed USSR silently unwittingly.
@@vaishaliphule4679 slave of communism.
@@vaishaliphule4679 I has a great thanks for him. He showed people - World around is not a bloody...
He has uncover yugly truth for Russians - people who are leaving abroad not suffering, as CP government said...
@@vaishaliphule4679 one day comrade. The USSR will come back
Thanks for providing this to us. The quality is amazing for something likely taped off of the TV in 1991.
Sure enough! The VCR model number is in the video description. 😀👍📼
A new tape on sp 2hr mode was industry standard for 20 years. Where you get the poor quality is from tapes on ssp, or 8 hour, or a tape that has been recorded over and over again.
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Anyone here after hearing about Gorbachev's passing?
they did not know that Yeltsin was only a loud mouth but in reality a drunken fool and the real Tsar was in the making behind scenes...
And a witty one at that
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Honestly he seemed very genuine and caring.
I feel the same! I've watched other videos of his and much appreciate the qualities he has in his heart and mind as a true politician - caring about people's needs
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In early 1990 I've seen Gorbachev in his visit in Ottawa, Canada.
Gorbachev was the man of the 20th century. The man who disassembled the iron curtain of Lennon and Stalin. I hope some day another great man does the something to the American iron curtain. I believe Gorbachev was a great humanitarian man.
This video is a time machine to the past. The commercials and the death of USSR takes me back to 32 years ago.
His actions wasnt meant to dismantle the soviet union, but reform it. The constituent Republics had a different mindset. I don't think the doctrine of communism was at fault for requiring this reform. The 1900's was a tremendously difficult era to live through, with multiple wars, geopolitical tensions, rapid innovations in science, technology, and society. Had communism been executed differently, the outcome would have been radically different.
In the 2000's, we are seeing unprecedented rise in inequality, crippled generational personal growth, rising cost of living, declining birth rates, extreme climate change, massive public debt being carried forward and a certain population of old mindset thinkers stuck running things for far too long.
The end result of communism in the Soviet Union was 15 fractured republics pondering their ideology of society. The end result of capitalism is going to send us back to the dark ages.
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Soviet union was in various difficulties not only in 1991 onward. After revolution, civil war agsinst the kulks and the foreign-aided white guards left soviet people to unimaginable distress and suffering
Yet, the soviet union raised from the ruins. Socialist spirit, under wise leadership of stalin and countless party comrades and volunteers, took up huge reconstruction work and made the whole country a model state in the world.
That's crazy, I was in the 1st grade when the cold war ended. And I was too young to comprehend world events back then!
Yes the Iron Cutain of the Soviet Union have been Dissolved but Another Curtain will emgerged that will replaced the Iron Curtain that Curtain will be THE BAMBOO CURTAIN that is CHINAX
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Same here! 6 years old! ❤
"What is the difference between the statesman and the politician? The politician thinks about the next election but the statesman thinks about the future".
And that is true about Gorbachev too. He tried to save the system, but the system was unsavable. He paid the price, all over the world leftists despise him for what he did. They don't understand, that even without him, USSR would have collapsed. Or would have remain communist only by name, as is China today.
I think the reason he is despised is not the fall of communism, but the break-up of the union. Now, nations that used to be close to one another are enemies (Russia and Ukraine, Chechnya, Nagorno Karabakh, etc) Gorbachev is blamed for breaking up a centuries-old union, though many of those who despise him for that do agree that communism had to go. I personally like Gorbachev (like you said, most of this wasn’t his fault) and think what Russia is doing today is horrifying and tragic. But it is important to realize that had the USSR’s collapse been handled differently (like if the new union treaty passed and the coup didn’t happen), a lot of this could have potentially been avoided.
@@A350flyernyc Well he tried to promote a different kind of a union, but nationalists on every country, did not wanted to follow his plan.
I am a ‘leftist’, but I’m also a fan of Gorbachev. I think he was a genuine man who had the interests of his people and country in his heart.
I am a socialist. I don’t believe he dismantled socialism or communism. I think he attempted to dismantle a kind of fascism/authoritarianism that had taken hold in the ussr since the 30’s.
@@A350flyernycyou do realise Chechnya and Nagorno Karabakh aren't countries?
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Thanx for introducing this Video, very informative, throws much light on the previous Soviet Union.
Actually I was fascinated with the old style commercials.
The moment that Soviet flag was taken off the flag poll the Soviet Union was officially over.
Yep. Its was on December 26th at 12:10am, the USSR dead at 69
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Amen
Actually, the USSR under Gorbachev is more democratics than Russia right now 😅
A truly brave man. He could have ruled like his predecessors to keep his own power while the people suffered, but chose otherwise.
Very interesting to watch this again all these years later. I was home on Christmas break from college at the time. I wish now I'd bought one of those Civic VX's and garaged it, wonder what it would be worth? :D
We indians always admired Gorbachev we miss him a lot a great friend of India
Excellent quality. Thanks!
Thanks for the upload! And thanks for deinterlacing into 60p.
I'm always happy when someone knows and notices. 😁👍📺
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In commemoration of the USSR fall, I am studying this a part of The Cold War learning from both sides.
this whole process of change was too drastic. the soviet citizens had no time to adjust and learn about the new system, so it was doomed to be chaotic and fail. should've done it gradually, trail and error figure out what works what doesn't for the country. Slowly introduce people to the new system, new ideas, show them how to succeed under the new system.
5:30 The briefcase holding the codes for soviet nuclear arsenal
People are born, people will suffer, people will die. Mikhail RIP.
Somewhere in Leningrad, a certain bureaucrat watched all this happen with a clenched fist, planning for vengeance.
I was in the womb when the Soviet Union collapsed. I was born 6 months later.
Rest in peace Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev really did mean well. But a country that destroys itself from within over 70 years is irretrievable
I'm no Stalinist, but the USSR was, in strict material terms, vastly better for the mass of the population concerned than Tsarism had been. Mind you, that's probably a damning indictment upon Tsarism more than anything else.
Gorbachev had the foresight to save the world from nuclear destruction.
Страна моего отца была разрушена им вот так...
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He helped change the world then did a mic drop and walked away.
Causing millions of deaths and making world terrorism by a few countries possible.
RIP Gorbachev 😇🕯
The breakup of the Soviet Union, was handled extremely poorly by Western powers.
LOL. Meanwhile, local Russian "hero" and vodka refinery Boris Yeltsin did a real bang-up job of it by comparison!
Like any other European colonial empire, the Soviet Union is a fake country, hence the fragmentation.
@@junkscience6397 How's Big Guy Joe Biden doing?
If I didn't know any better I would say that aged well.
@@junkscience6397 Yeltsin was the West's man, he was letting them buy up the entire country at rock bottom prices.
I remember my mother being so happy for those folks when the communist regime collapsed. I was too young to understand the gravity of the situation.
But today the world miss the USSR. If USSR was present today, America would not have played its dirty game in middle east and central asia.
@@ross5050 You have no idea what would have happened and neither do I. Opinions and assumptions are like buttholes, everybody has their own.
@@ross5050 yes, the westerners miss the USSR. Former republics do not. It was an evil repressive empire.
@@markbritton7612 And some stink worse then others. (Not trying to be rude, just finishing the statement)
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The most humane leader the USSR ever had. Unfortunately those good intentions are what ended it.
Gorbachev's legacy; the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Breznev was better despiste stagnation he loved his people and was not a weak leader .
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Thank goodness for Gorbachow i was only 11 now 41 but this guy was very experienced
Who else didnt skip the commercials?
Oh how happy I was this day!!
it's ted koppel tom brokaw was nbc news
Fixed. Thank you!
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One of the most significant, caring, and brave leaders post ww2
Great history here!
I rather enjoyed the included advertisements, a drink of Tott's does sound pretty good right about now...
I like to think it adds to the nostalgia. 😁
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@@theleeoverstreet It really does. It ages it and adds to the nostalgia. Helps give context to the time period
They should have done a follow up to assess the shambolic presidency of Boris Yeltsin and the chaos he left behind. More broadly, democracy remains stillborn in Russia. If anything the enduring authoritarian streak that characterized Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union itself remains as strong as ever.
1991 was deadliest year in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. The highest Homicide was 141 murders.
True. Things are better, but the city still has a way to go to improve safety and quality of life. I like the new mayor!
But I have to ask... Why post about Birmingham, Alabama on a video about Gorbachev?
Like over 300 murders in bmore every year, yall got it easy
And how is the relevant
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God bless “Gorby”
11:59 - Discover Credit Card TV Commercial (1991)
26 minutes in speculators are calling him a PR genius. We all thought that. Except he really was the real deal. I am not sure we will see the likes of this man again. RIP Mikhail.
57:20 the sad version of the Bill Conti Primetime theme
Our generation witnessed a huge turning point in the world's history. It was the fall of USSR..
Okay Putin lol
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Putin has lost his way considering all that he grew up with and without......
The 90's is what MADE Putin, it's the reason he is as popular as he is.
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I’m scared to hear his final hours. I did not continue. One of my most admired president in the history
Goodbye comrade. We will miss you
Gorbachev is still alive
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I haven't seen these commercials in yrs!!!👍👍
i wonder how much money he made from resigning
Pine-Sol ad before they started diluting it and using that terrible woman in the ads...
From The nuclear launching Code we can understand that USSR was 80% RSFSR 🇷🇺
you forgot to put December in the title like this "(December 1991)"
Didn't want to make the title too long. I did put the relevant dates in the description.
@@theleeoverstreet Ok thanks
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@@spkanava I know that
Ussr is a emotion....staying up in ukraine for last 3 years made me fall for USSR more...thank a lot
F U
Thanks for uploading but please remove the commercials
Gorbachev is a great man !!!
Why you all weep over demise of USSR?
At the same time you criticise communism.
People are weeping over the loss of a visionary, not communism
@@smoaky123 Yes, Gorbachev would have been a better leader than Yelstin for Russia in the 1990s.
Because the Gorvachev was about to sign treaties that disolved the comunist party, and alowed the republics to be democratic and capitalistic
The Soviet Union was about to leave comunism, without breaking up, but the coup ruined it
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OUR HERO
R.I.P Comrade Gorbachev
RIP Gorbachev
Great great great leader.excellent
The days when the U.S didn’t quite give away all its jobs yet…
Dam, that fridge is not bad for the price!
The day democracy, freedom and equality died.
Democracy and freedom died when the USSR died?
Hol’ up
@@theleeoverstreet yes you have no idea what those words mean.. they are just colors for you
If the Democrats had their way maybe. 😂
@Rupok Khan Sure lol I am an Indian and my country was a "democracy" that followed the socialist model of lenin and I can tell you US is still how it used to be at the very base except there are less republicans now as the minority vote bank there has soared.
My boy John be looking young.
Back when we still thought America were the good guys :P
It was destined to fail when it started. December 26th, 1991 was the the day democracy won for the better of the world. America won, and I couldn’t be more proud.
i was born very early on that day.
America is the empire on the eve of collapse now. It's our turn next.
And america is the evil empire now and I cant wait until it collapses also
Neil Peart's Purple Nose But we can still turn that around. If we the people stop letting these corrupt politicians use us, we can take back our country and make it for the people again. But, it must happen soon before it’s too late.
also the day Indian prime minister Narsimha rao liberalised the Indian economy from socialist to less socialist which continues to this day and this resulted in a growth spurt.
USSR became concentrated in Russia. No loss. Russia as countervailing power vis-a-vis USA. Keeping USSR intact was internally possible. USSR was pregnant with problems of internal frictions that wounded USSR severely. Don't blame exotic forces.
If there was no loss, then explain East Germany, Ukraine, and all the other breakaway states? Internally possible or not, it didn't happen, the USSR broke up, and hypothetical arguments are irrelevant now. Did you even look at the facts before commenting?
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46:37 the moment the flag of the USSR replaces the flag of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺
President Reagan stared down Gorbachev 🇺🇲
I really liked the ads
Like if you were here for the commercials.
TODAY RUSSIA NEED THE SAME PRESIDENT MECHAEL GORBACHEV--
24:33 Vladimir Putin sighting, behind boy get a slight glimpse of him.
USSR 91 ABC
The most respected man of Russian
HA, not quite.
Are u Russian?
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RUSSIAN DOMINANT USSR🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
RIP Mikhail
Responsible man for all deaths after dissolution of soviet union
USSR! USSR! YELSTIN MAAAAH MAN
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More than 40 years Comm.Party USSR was against of entire West and especially against USA and was in so war, named cold war. But on December 25 1991 the Comm. Party Fell and stopped, this hostility. The new leaders of USSR began to met friendly with leaders of USA. They speak and joke as good friends. When Yeltsin met with Clinton and speak about the fell of Comm.Party, Yeltsin said: We did not lose anything, you lose the enemy that was hate you. Clinton could not stop of laughing. But unfortunately the administration changed and the evil and hostility returned back as how was before. The main reason before was the envy and it returned, because it is a sin and it come from devil. People must fight against it and not accept this sin which lead to murder, how did Cain.
By this time Gorbachev was a powerless had-been. He clung to power way too long in the most pathetic fashion. And his countrymen hate him to this day.
Damn fruit cake. It'll get ya every time.
The biggest lose in the universe! Hahaha haha. I hope in the year 2022 people of Russia can realise how rubbish this Guy was! He disttoyed USSR for the only benifet of the USA
The biggest traitor in the history of Russia and the world.
Long Live Communism
Long live Great Lenin
Hail CCCP🔥❤️
Laal Salam from India
Idiot 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Bets voiss avaj
All welldone in Chernobyl👍Humanity must thank him🤕🤮🤮
He did preety well, compared to what other leaders would do
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America loves you, Russia. The future will be much better than these days in November of 2022.
Чтоб твои дети, и внуки. Внучки ращитались за развал СССР
Он думал только о своей Раисы.