The Coup That Killed The USSR

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  • 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.
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  • @wizardman3162
    @wizardman3162 ปีที่แล้ว +71

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

    • @HATCH5T
      @HATCH5T 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @HATCH5T
      @HATCH5T 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Fermifire And you are joking if you really think like that 🤣

    • @HATCH5T
      @HATCH5T หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Fermifire Bro tried to become cool 🤣

    • @200131356
      @200131356 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wizardman3162 Yes, authoritarian to the bourgeois, multibillionaires and corrupt oligarchs.

    • @200131356
      @200131356 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Soviet Union was a socialist democracy. A democracy of the working class. The modern Russian Federation is a democracy of the rich corrupt oligarchs, exactly like the Unites States.

  • @ЈосифСтаљин-ч7п
    @ЈосифСтаљин-ч7п 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    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
      @GoldenAgeSk8Video 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
      @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Part of the problem was the Warsaw Pact was far too large and far too controlled. There is an urge for freedom within all of us.
      Stalin was right to push German borders West to Oder-Nesse Line, but he had no need to control Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and especially East Germany, let alone also Yugoslavia and Albania as he tried to. The Carpathian Mountains
      USSR should have gradually loosened controls over republics such that each republic was granted the same status as Poland within the Warsaw Pact, especially the South Caucus republics as the Caucus Mountains provide a good defensive border for Russia.
      The Bolsheviks wanted it all and hence they lost it all.

    • @Dan-dl7tz
      @Dan-dl7tz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns These facts are really mind blowing. Russia has a backbone which is why they are where they are, and, well, the Divided States of America just allows treason at the highest levels! There is no backbone in this country! Meanwhile, Russia is the biggest enemy to peace in the West and the EU? Really? They took Crimea because it was just unlawfully taken from them in 1954!

  • @Teacher2Polis2XtraRice
    @Teacher2Polis2XtraRice 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

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

    • @patriciaszabo8015
      @patriciaszabo8015 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @meso8848
      @meso8848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@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
      @cryptexawm3285 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @meso8848
      @meso8848 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

    • @kaguscon
      @kaguscon ปีที่แล้ว

      @@meso8848 dam you're stupid

  • @stevev238
    @stevev238 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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
      @GoldenAgeSk8Video 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      & 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
      @Vagabund483 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @aylyi-huh9355
    @aylyi-huh9355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

    • @svenjalangner1228
      @svenjalangner1228 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @lilacscentedfushias1852
      @lilacscentedfushias1852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @cryptocsguy9282
      @cryptocsguy9282 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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
      @loveussr3663 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🥰🥰🥰

    • @romanmoroboshi7914
      @romanmoroboshi7914 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @peteryokahui
    @peteryokahui 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    yeah and opening the door for cia to come in

  • @TubeHelen
    @TubeHelen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @mirekpilsudski
      @mirekpilsudski ปีที่แล้ว +2

      underrated and vastly underappreciated comment

  • @kalmazepa
    @kalmazepa หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:10 is actually a footage of soviet troops in Vilnius on January 13, 1991.

  • @gnas1897
    @gnas1897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Chad Yazov and gang vs Virgin Gorbachev and Yelts*in

    • @myoptimumpride5178
      @myoptimumpride5178 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You have to be satire while saying this shit

    • @gnas1897
      @gnas1897 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@myoptimumpride5178 yes, but I don't like Gorbachev or Yeltsin.

    • @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
      @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@gnas1897 so virgin defeated the Chads? The USSR was already collapsing under its own contradictions. Gorbachev was trying to salvage it. The USSR did not not Georgia or Armenia (south of the Caucus mountains) or the Baltic States (it was a loss but USSR existed before incorporation of those states), but it did need the Slavic states of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and the Central Asian states, to help protect its soft underbelly.
      Gorbachev had many problems but was faced with too many competing forces tearing the Union apart (nationalists, capitalists, US) and Old Guard Communists (whose recalcitrance had been responsible for the mess the USSR was in) and too few people to trust.
      The result was a disaster but it could have been a calamity if the Old Guard was allowed to fight to retain control.

  • @leomarsubala115
    @leomarsubala115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    End of Ruthless days.

    • @exposett246
      @exposett246 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      almost

    • @leomarsubala115
      @leomarsubala115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@exposett246 Yeah your right

    • @Virsho
      @Virsho ปีที่แล้ว +5

      beginning of

    • @nosywendigo592
      @nosywendigo592 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @wyattwilbourne530 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was only the beginning

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    now its one president 4 life

  • @Virsho
    @Virsho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    one of greatest disasters of 20th century

    • @V38-r7t
      @V38-r7t 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @vyhozshuthat the coup even had to happen

  • @SatyaSiddharthaSaladi
    @SatyaSiddharthaSaladi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @valentinakaramazova1007
    @valentinakaramazova1007 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yeah, that turned out great

  • @stalkerentertainment3671
    @stalkerentertainment3671 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @charles.m.molema4758
    @charles.m.molema4758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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

  • @Alex-it7ms
    @Alex-it7ms 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Biden right now

  • @BentleyJoyner-i3z
    @BentleyJoyner-i3z หลายเดือนก่อน

    DID HE JUST SAY " MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, USSR'S FIRST AND LAST PRESIDENT" Bro Vladimir Lenin was the first.leader of the USSR

    • @RailSuleymanov
      @RailSuleymanov หลายเดือนก่อน

      No one hold president title before Gorbachev

  • @depressedmidlifecrisistimm3043
    @depressedmidlifecrisistimm3043 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    no way TNO reference

    • @noahlonaker2668
      @noahlonaker2668 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dude I had to do a double take when they said “Dimitri yazov” then I was like “oh yeah he actually was a real guy”

  • @nonagvamberia6039
    @nonagvamberia6039 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Totally collaps of a system....the Anarchy started after

  • @jyy9624
    @jyy9624 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Europe had this and Asia had...

  • @Dan-dl7tz
    @Dan-dl7tz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    But amnesty is nothing!

  • @noahlonaker2668
    @noahlonaker2668 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This hits a little close to home rn… where tf is Joe Biden?

  • @davidlambe2856
    @davidlambe2856 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yes poland and czech republic was under the Soviets as well

  • @Marine_happiness
    @Marine_happiness 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Бориса Пуго и его жену убил горбачев

  • @pasindukanishka7504
    @pasindukanishka7504 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it should be return as unitery republic

  • @pdd60absorbed12
    @pdd60absorbed12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cover story told and re-told.

    • @daMacadamBlob
      @daMacadamBlob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      what's the real story?

  • @UdayMUKHERJI
    @UdayMUKHERJI หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Single handedly, Gorbachev dismantled the USSR. I consider him to be a Traitor.

  • @DanielAilenei-ev9bv
    @DanielAilenei-ev9bv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gen și clonarea de oameni profită de identitatea lor.

  • @200131356
    @200131356 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    We need the Soviet Union back now more than ever!

    • @tennisboatrdr2
      @tennisboatrdr2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No?

    • @200131356
      @200131356 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tennisboatrdr2 Yes?

    • @tennisboatrdr2
      @tennisboatrdr2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@200131356 soviet union was a failed state, returning it will result in it failing again

    • @randomdude3299
      @randomdude3299 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@200131356 Why though, I mean I wouldn't really care but I'd prefer for it to be someone more centrist & democratic compared to Putin

    • @200131356
      @200131356 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@randomdude3299 The Soviet Union was far more democratic than the modern capitalist Russian Federation and Vladimir Putin. The Soviet union was the first successful, long-standing socialist country society and project. It was very progressive and ahead of its time, and trying things on an economic and societal level that have never been done before. What took the United States centuries to accomplish only took the Soviet Union a few decades. Soviet style socialism turned Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia into a developed space faring industrialized superpower in just a few decades.

  • @meowmeow1230
    @meowmeow1230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    freeddom time, fall of ussr fascism regime !

    • @meso8848
      @meso8848 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @ks1withcanc3r20
      @ks1withcanc3r20 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      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
      @meso8848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @punch3322
      @punch3322 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      hell yeah, total russian death

    • @Zopiexx
      @Zopiexx ปีที่แล้ว

      Crony child, tell me what is fascism