The Week That Shook The World: The Soviet Coup — ABC News (1991)

May the horrors of Communism not repeat itself, We have seen that happen in Korea and Vietnam which millions suffered under it's rule

All that these brave Russians had fought for is being undone by Putin now and their rights have been chipping away little by little since he took control.

Bush’s view on coups was excellent. As head of the CIA for years, he truly was an expert on them…satire of life

So america CIA paid them off to continue collapsing the USSR. Amd theynare now mad that putin will no longer allow their companies to steal russian resources like they do here in Africa. 😂 thats why they hate putin so much. It all makes sense now

From 50s through to the start of 90s USSR had been on the focus of the world. Even Americans seemed were keen of watching news about the Soviet Union. Now Russia does not have popularity, world superiority snd other advantages like its predecessor had.

day before my birth...

I hope this shows how important the Ukraine is to Russia. Lots of talk about the Crimera during this time...and still now.

Im worried something like this could happen in the US sooner rather then later. Albeit for "different" reasons. But this is a real concern. I was a pre-schooler when this happened, so i remember little, but what i do remember is my fathers concern. We moved back to Puerto Rico that year. Wa came bavk a year later. I remember in second grade that our globe and maps in school still had USSR still stamped in them. As an early millennial, i remeber much if the changes in my world.

The Soviet Union was a failure. Now we wait for the Communist Federal Republic were every citizen gets to vote on anything just like the Roman Empire. when the Soviets came to power Lenin said the beginning of the dictatorship of the proletariat he was lying decades of control of the workers and enslavement. Russia has always been a country of what if's.

Forever the prime example that Communism is a failed idea.

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It's too bad that Yeltsin and the corruption led to the selling off of the Russian economy for pennies to the oligarchs. Russia could have become a thriving democracy and ally. Now we have the Putin dictatorship and the invasion of Ukraine.

what an amazing man PUTIN is.
he took a collapsed country sanctioned by ....everyone... and made BRICKS.

If Russia actually collapses again after Putins war, please please have a legitimate democracy where a president cant have so many terms such as Putin.

The day the whole world was never the same

Gorbhchev is saithan, having mark of beast on forehead

This is so great. Thank you for posting.

The deaths of thoze three ordinary, yet brave and powerful souls died in vein, at least for this decade

If only Boris kept a goos public image, if only Medyedev wasn't so greedy, if only Putin wasn't so malicious. Russia and their people's heroes that created the Russiam Federatiom would be just like an other somewhat "free" nation, maybe not entirely democratic, but at least free to lead themselves on the world's stage

My 21st-century brain is straining to figure out what kind of slant this coverage is trying to push.

It is inconceivable to me that a journalist is capable, or ever was capable of objectivity. Besides some meangless emotional rhetoric, I can't figure out what this broadcast is actually saying.

Notice how Ukraine was there with their flags to support RU's push to and a chance for true freedom ... sadly RU they wasted it.

Next russian federation

It was a surprise although stalinists i were known for hating Gorbatsov😮

Yeltsin - How to drink your way through a decade.

Preghozin could have had his own documentary

Putin worked to overthrow Gorby. Putin is an American agent.

Not a cell phone in sight. Just living in the moment. Everyone looks so happy.

Lenin, Stalin spinning in their graves!

"BACK TO THE USSR!" The Beatles ❤

Yeltsin was applying the shock therapy recommended by well known Harvard professors and Russian liberal economists. Russian average living standard has just got to the level of 1990. The price of ‘freedom” and “democracy”. 30 years lost. Vietnam has the same government and improved its average living standards by 20 times, over the same 3 decades.

On this day, Putin grew horns on his head and did a Mister Burns laugh

Ted Koppel IS a robot

Russia is a mess now be better off with thw soviets in charge

Hard not to imagine how much better a world we'd all live in had they succeeded. Saddest part is America is still just as hostile towards Russia, fighting yet another proxy war to weaken them

Capitalism and the United States WON the Cold War while the Soviet Union disintegrated under its own weight without a single shot being fired; Socialism is the obsolete ideology that failed miserably in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Grenada, Vietnam, North Korea, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Libya, Sri Lanka, Chile, Hungary, Nicaragua, Poland, El Salvador, Mozambique, Romania, Honduras, Mongolia, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Angola, China (which has been Capitalist in everything but name since the economic reforms of 1964 by Deng Xiaoping), Russia (of course), and everywhere else it has been tried.
Capitalism continues to be the best and only option while Socialism continues to be the worst, the most failed and most lethal after having caused at least 120 million deaths in less than 90 years which would translate in more than 1 million deaths per year.
BTW, how come reds keep bitching about American "imperialism" but never mention Chinese imperialism in Vietnam or North Korea? Or Soviet imperialism in Afghanistan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, East Germany or Yugoslavia? Or Cuban imperialism in Angola, Mozambique, Grenada, Nicaragua or Venezuela? Or Yugoslav imperialism in Albania?

And let's finish with the Socialist prayer:
If it's a Socialist atrocity, it never happened
If it happened, it wasn't that bad
If it was that bad, they deserved it
If they didn't deserve it, mistakes might have been made
If mistakes were made, that wasn't real socialism.

Уроды развалили СССР....вот и живём нынче как животные.

Я пам'ятаю також телевізійні ефіри того часу, про путч в Москві... як давно це було

Не уберегли Союз, и пошли воины междуусобные голод розбой убийство розвал😢😢😢.

Russia has always been a problem child for the West. It wasn't in Europe's best best interest for the United States and Britain to support the Soviet Union in it's fight against Germany in WW2, but they did it anyway. Now we see the end result of that, war in Ukraine and many countries in Africa and the Middle East destabilized by Russian intervention and mercenaries. To keep the Soviet Union alive was a colossal blunder.

Sufrí mucho con la caída de la urss ahora Rusia es el dios de la humanidad .uraaa por la madre Rusia a sus órdenes madre

Yeltsin became a tool for the KGB to manipulate and the man who allowed Putin into high political office. The Russian people thought that they'd seen off the coup but it came in through the back door anyway.

This reminds me of the old adage "Don't bother learning history because nothing ever happens twice".

I never knew a coup d’état against Gorbachev precipitated the collapse.

I could just be naive, but it’s sad to see all that hard-work, blood and sacrifice those people made just to see another guy make Russia a pariah state again.

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By all mean, for both east and west, the world today would be better if this never happen. Even if it's just Russia turn capitalist as a whole.
And yet, oligarchs divided the cake, over 75％ Soviet people who voted for keeping the union lost their home forever, never knowing how deeply they're wrong even to this day.