The Collapse of The Soviet Union - A Documentary Film (2006)
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The film is using episodes filmed mainly at the Kremlin, Soviet Union's headquarters which enable to have a glance to world's most well-known political kitchen. Director TOOMAS LEPP, author and producer JUHAN AARE. Eesti Kultuurfilm 2006
You know, when they forced Khruschev out, he sat down and wrote two letters to his successor. He said - "When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can't get out of, open the second letter". Soon enough, he gets into a tight situation, and he opens the first letter. It says - "Blame it all on me". So he blames it all on the old guy, and it worked like a charm. When he got himself into a second situation, he opened the second letter. It said - "Sit down, and write two letters".
Beautiful.
Leaders in Democratic countries do the same
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Is this true?? @mario
Lol. This is not true, but it’s a good story.
This was excellent. Love the raw footage of the meetings and video clips from the people involved.
Yes! No cheesy reenactments, no sensationalizing, no upbeat action music. Basically just the bare facts.
..yeah...thats called a documentary...
No word about Caucasian conflicts, nothing about Central Asia. Bullshit
"who is running the soviet union?" "we dont know."
At 46:31
The International Bankers
Zod 23 - fact, lots of evidence
Just like today the masses have no clue who runs America, they think Trump runs the show. lol
@@lomparti thats the problem i always have with people who lose their minds whenever the candidate they dont like wins the presidency. they act like the entire world is coming to the end, as if the president is some almighty king who decides & chooses everything, who lives and dies. fucking local & state elections & laws effect you more than the president does, and you never hear people freaking out about those.
I never knew that the Molotov-Ribentrop agreement's secret annex included the annexation of Baltic states by the USSR. Every time i red about or heard something about it, the main point of this secret part of the Pact was the agreement to carve out Poland between the Third Reich and the USSR. I wasn't aware of other significant points in it that talked about the annexation of Baltic and the invasion of Finland. It's always nice to learn something new about the topic or an event that is considered to be the general knowledge. Well at least general knowledge to an educated person or to a person that's willing to learn and absorb new ideas.
Yes it's a fact, and ww2 started not only by Germans invasion to Poland but the same day Russians invading Poland.
They stole our freedom and tried to russify us completely!!!
You would wanna know what USSR were allowed to conquer and what they could not. I think they also took some land from moldova and romania.
Yea the Soviet Union was an empire through and through
I never thought I'd see an Estonian-Centric film.
@High Overlord Snarffie Beagle Nah, Borat is from Kazakhstan (Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)
Does this film was sponsored by Estonian? Somehow it seems that YES. Other baltic countries also played big role in this collapse. For me this film was not very objective.
@@VytautasLL Did actually see the documentary?
@@VytautasLL yes it seems to support the collapse and the counter revolution
And it's great to see their perspectives. My ancestors were Lithuanian so I feel a lot of love towards the Baltic and hope we can keep it free.
This documentary should be called how Estonia acheived its independence, not the collapse of the soviet union. The events in the batic states, though important in their own right, were but a sidenote to the really important stuff happening in Moscow.
Sor Alb, you are 100% correct! While the chronology of events that occurred in the Baltic States were a very significant factor and/or catalyst leading to the implosion and demise of the Soviet Union (including the crippling of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), it should also be understood that; a) During and after the attempted coup d'etat of August 19/1991, both the Communist "hawks" on one side and Mikhail Gorbachev's Administration on the other side became discredited in the eyes of most Soviet citizens as both were accused of being incompetent and corrupt, b) Gorbachev fancied himself as a peace-maker and not as a war monger. Therefore, he rejected the option of using force to prevent any potential "bloodbath" as well as any further disintegration of the USSR and instead wrongfully believed that he had the ability to negotiate a "new" peace with the Soviet Republics by decentralizing the USSR, c) (Note: This is where the documentary made a major error by totally ignoring the vital role that Ukraine as the second most powerful Union Republic played in the dissolution of the Soviet Union). So, in essence, the "Genie" (AKA the Union Republics) escaped from its bottle (AKA the CPSU/USSR) and with that, the destruction of the Soviet Russian Empire.
Well, I'd argue the Baltic states were one of the key reasons behind why the Soviets collapsed. The revolutions of 1989 already shook the soviets to its core, but they weren't directly part of the Union. The Baltic States, as members of the Soviet Union, drumming up independence at the same time only added to the fuel for independence in other Soviet states. The 1989 revolutions spread one by one, and when Ukraine also decided to call it quits, the union was finished. There was no point to continue on when the second biggest republic of the Union quit.
@@romandawydiak4476 Yeah, Ukraine's role in the fall of the soviet union is often underestimated. After the baltic states, the stans were on their way out, and Azerbaijian was also way out the door. Many communists still believed that the Soviet experiment could continue as Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Ukraine's large population calling for independence at the same time meant that there was no hope left for the Soviets to continue existing.
@@romandawydiak4476 Yeah, I my self thought so too.. too much Baltic, too little other Soviet Republics. Ukraine was a cornerstone as her lands were voluntarily forced or forcedly volunteered in the 20s then. And with such a large state seceeding from USSR there was no USSR anymore. Ukraine and Kazakhstan were , one could say, the Non-Russian heavyweights within the USSR. Why the need for Baltic States anyway? If they go independent, it is just a needle by size. Secesseion of the Baltics wouldn't have thrown USSR in disarray. It's like to go crazy because some cake crumb falls off the Soviet table. If a fat slice like Ukraine is gone you better start to worry.
@@yuchenchen8012 Invalid argument, on this occasion the size of brain, bravery and motivation had a higher effect than a size of land. Since when the amount of land is a problem to Kremlius? Estonians should be recognised for the impact their example of determination had. It's the hardest to be the first to bring the change.
Great video. Highly informative and well-produced
Thank you for posting this documentary here
Fascinating documentary - thanks for posting.
Very interesting and inspiring. Thanks for uploading this!
Great posting! Thank you so much.
What an excellent documentary, a pleasure to watch and very informative about history that is ignored in most schools.
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Exactly they praise Communists and blame the evil USA for their demise
@@jasont9907 In what country schools teach that?
1960s America - the three most unthinkable events - Mars invades USSR disappears Cubs win the World Series I suppose now we're just waiting on Mars
+ America elects a black president
@@runi5413 in the 60s?
@@chrisa2612 Sure. The Voting Rights Act wasn't signed until 1965, before that black people couldn't even vote in some states. The idea of ever having a black man in the oval office must've seemed pretty unimaginable at the time.
You should include World War I and II. They were the catalysts for the way we live today.
USSR didn’t disappear until the 90s.
11:00 I LOVE how they used Revolutionary Etude here, by Chopin, when talking about the revolutions that were occurring in the Soviet Union.
Very informative documentary Thanks for upload
I never realised the seeds of their independence lay in those secret clauses in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. I read a whole book on the pact for a history project back in the early 90s but never knew its contemporary significance. Thank you for putting this online.
What about polish german non-aggression pact signed in january 26 1934 by Josef Pilsudski in Poland with vos Germán counterpart hans-adolfvons Moltke,7 year before Rivventrop-molotov, the polish already knew that the german interest was Russialand
"They" have their own non-russian ethnic identities. There are no other "seeds".
@@oydaladno4992 but the fascist poles are always complaining about russian collussion
The secrecy, denial, and distortion of the pact today, is how Putin's regime is still holding on. Most Russians dont even know about the pact, and those who do adopt the distorted version of it, which completely justifies it.
You have great documentary called SOVIET STORY on YT on this topic.
These are the things that people all over the world should watch and learn... Thank You - ... to the persons involved in this production...
For these who don't remember: Lithuania declared Re-Establishment of independence on March 11, 1990; Latvia declared Re-Establishment of independence on May 4, 1990; Estonia declared Re-Establishment of independence on August 20, 1991.
yeah and estonia declared sovereignty on nov 16 1988 its all a comment section game of "first!!!" but it doesnt matter, it was an unified action, estonia couldn't do it without the other baltic states, the baltic states couldnt do it without moscows weakness, moscow wouldnt have been weak if it wasnt for the international state of things... and so on. but the republics wanting freedom worked together fantastically, all these actions a'la baltic chain, were gigantic in showing unity of the baltics against moscow.
Darius A, no one cares, lol You did not establish anything, you were just released by Russians, just like you were leashed by them before. Till next time, lol
As many people are complaining that it is focused on Estonia - the original title was actually "Eestlased Kremlis" ("Estonians in the Kremlin"). The English title is misleading, but likely not many people would watch it with the original title... Yet, it is more informative than most of the docs created by big companies (and made with much smaller budget). Check out "The Soviet Story"; as it was made in Latvia, a lot of the footage is Latvian; it's just natural with the available budget, contacts and other options.
52:10 them asking where they will show the footage and their excitement when they hear "Estonia" honestly breaks my heart now. The Russian people went from being free to being ruled by, let's face it, a dictator -- once again. "Let's be friends.", that's what people want, not conflicts.
Endel Lippmaa proves knowledge is more powerful than anything including soviet union
Sad he isnt mentioned in Google search much at all. He had the smoking gun and refused to put it away. Bravo. The people of Estonia must have been terrified of the wrath of the Soviets.
Thank you. I wish I'd seen this 5 years ago.
Excellent documentary. Thank you.
Great documentary. Even though I remember that time well, I did not realize the importance of the secret pact in the chain of events leading to the break up of USSR.
Thank you for the documentary! It vastly helps with my European History course.
and this is just recent history and so many events .... if you will learn history of each european country counting back 1000 yeasr you would be next Einstein
Mostly based in Asia. But okay
the new star wars trilogy is garbage
@Alan Dempsey yep
Why here tho
I like turtles!
Leeeroy Jeeenkins!!!!
@@ocpofficialrep7026 let's talk about forts, couch forts...
Remarkable in its clarity. Brings alive the dull. Recommended for everyone.
The fact is.... During the collapse of the Soviet union, only one old bolshevik was alive to see the demise. His name was Lazar kaganovich. He was the last surviving Old Bolshevik from the time of Vladimir Lenin & was in the inner circle of Joseph Stalin along with Vyacheslav Molotov (the guy behind Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact )
Because Stalin had all the others killed…. “Revolution eats its own children”
There is no empire or kingdom will last forever,according to history! And its true!
"Hold my beer." -SPQA
China basically been around forever
How about Japanese royal family?
@Deenie Beenie we are in late stage capitalism, it will fall.
@John Anthony Saburao Unless you can change that history before it even happens! On a side note, many African empires and kingdoms were able to prosper and survive far longer than any other civilizations around the world. Of course, this was before the rest of the world (mainly the Europeans and Arabs) started to invade the continent and enslaved most of the populace.
This is one of the best documentary i have ever watched, amazing
I think the producers of this vid are also responsible for; The power of Nightmares, The manufacture of consent, Bitter lake, and Hypernormalisation. I think.
I had tears in my eyes watching this video. I'm Polish and pact between Hitler and Stalin impacted my country immensely. Thank you friends from Estonia.
Poor Polish, won the war against Nazis, lost the peace with U.S.S.R. Was attacked by both.
@@ripp846 forgets to say polish signed NAP with hitler, pilsudski pact & annexed czechoslovakia :)
@fan8281 so many dumb stuff, it was just game for few while few knew what will occur
Very interesting documentary and insightful
Thank you for uploading this video, it clears alot of things up for me, I grew up during the collapse of the S.U. but was too young to really know what happened.
Now you being foolished again
In the middle of 1987 in Tallinn, Estonia, it was not the first students' demonstration against Soviet policy, but the second. The first one took place in December of 1986 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. That demonstration was suppressed by the military troops brought from Ryazan', Russia, and many students were killed.
Thanks, this is the first time I've seen mention of this.
Superb stuff!
very high quality info.indepth and reliable. delicious. awesome and unique footage
When real news existed.
It has always existed. Just because some dick head in the Oval Office doesn’t like criticism doesn’t mean news is fake.
I got news for you fake news has existed since long before this. “Everything they believe will be a lie and then we will know our campaign is complete.” William J Casey 1981
now the media's only purpose is the propagation of brainwashing falsehoods... All of this to consolidate the power of corporations and twisted political parties...
Maybe you noticed the TV NEWS almost in the end of the video. It was called AK and it flickered and exposed eye symbol. Also Gorbachev and kallas are both freemasons. Don't get fooled... It was controlled by same criminal secret sects as today.
@@Lou-ry6yq If it can be independently verified using source material... It isn't fake
This is one of the most well made documentaries iv ever seen.
Estonia the Baltic Tiger - also a good documentaries in YT. Gives answer how Estonia develops after 30 year from collapse Soviet Union.
@@kulnokaiklem thx ill check it out
Informative documentary. Good to see the backstory and chronology. I was in my early 30s during these events and I remember that the world, as we knew it, changed within a few months. Thank you.
the opening quote hits so much different now
I watched the whole thing and have a better idea of the situation but many more questions than answers. It also seems very heavily focused on Estonia and I was hoping to learn more(or anything) about the resolution of Germany as well. Suffice to say, education on this topic is taught to us in the West but in a very cursory manner.
Excellent content
"Everything the Communists told us about Communism turned out to be false. But everything the Communists told us about Capitalism turned out to be true."
As the old saying goes, "anyone who accepts Communist propaganda at face value, or makes false equivalencies between Communist dictatorships and Western democracies, is a totalitarian criminal."
Brilliant film, watching this unfold as a teenager in California was astounding. We could not believe that the USSR was just fading away. This film puts beautiful faces to the brave deeds, and incredible efforts that brought about Freedom.
and by freedom you mean economic depression and more authoritarianism
Freedom😂
You're living under the rule of a bunch of corporate oligarchs boy. Don't lecture others about freedom. Useful idiot.
@SwordFish ironically enough the use of the expression “useful idiot” in 2021 shows you’re more of an useful idiot than op ever was.
@@miguelborges3125 LOL you're using a term on me that is used almost globally to refer to people who blindly follow liberal Democratic govts🤣 calm down boy
New title: How the little country of Estonia killed the USSR
Poland - never forget, always remember
New title how eastern europe is dying from hunger 2020
Oh jesus fucking christ, every single roach is claiming to have single-handed destroyed it. U.S Chernobyl disaster wartime economy since Stalin Poles Perestroika Afghans Alcohol prohibition and now this. who is gonna be the fucking next...
@@KronStaro Yes Tibet, remember how allies helped you
Better one: "A new D-Day: the invasion of Estonia with Dollar$$ instead of an army".
Putin says the collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century. I'd say the rise of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century.
My Mother being from the Ukraine remebers when the Soviet Union collapse watching it happen on tv My Mother said it would eventually happen and she was right and also said Her country The Ukraine was considered the bread basket of the Soviet Union My Mother Died in 2019 and we took her home to be buried in her home country I will miss her Love you mom you are where you belong
What a powerful video. This video answered several questions I had about Russia and its current political Congress.
@Jake Johansson Read the definition of congress, you moron!
@Jake Johansson Sorry about calling you a Moron, it was meant for someone else. I guess that makes me a Moron. Anyway, I think it's just a word game here. State Duma is what I considered their Congress. Russia's State of Duma appears to be closely made up of members very similar to the members of Congress of the U.S.
@Jake Johansson I appreciate you filling in with the info.
I don't think it was much of a secret the Baltic states desired independence throughout the existence of the Soviet Union!
I am an Indian we are very curious about of your history. It's very good initiative as well as reference for us.
Brilliant video
Well it is 2024 and the USSR has gone but Russia unfortunately has not changed
Everytime I see Gorbachev I keep picturing the scene from the movie "Naked Gun" of the guy grabbing his head in a head lock and trying to wipe off the birthmark on his head with a rag thinking it was a stain. LMFAO
the bottom line people want to control their own destiny not someone else
corey oldknow - and they still don't.
@Sp3nd Coin Chekist brain_farts much...
Democrats want to control your health care
Now its African American turn to do this in the United states
@Sp3nd Coin I hope that is some kind of joke... Stalin bringing FREEDOM?
42:59 Where is the image of the three political figures taken from? The text is in Romanian, and it seems to me to be some painting in a church and I wonder where could that be. I could pay a visit to that place
Superb !!!
This proves the GREATER IMPORTANCE of LANGUAGE to human kind than any other identities that later artificially stressed on him by OTHERS .
I think you are Kannadiga..
tad viddhi pranipatena pari prashnena sevaya...
found this in my suggested last night and watched it till 2 am
I visited Estonia in the early 2000's. Well worth your time to go visit.
Are Estonians related to Swedes ? Their language looks Germanic?
@@johnleber3369 their language is actually very close to Finnish.
@@johnleber3369 You obviously don't know any German.
ultonian63 The Estonian language does have some words that derive from German (when German nobles lived in Livonia) but mostly our language is related a lot more to Finnish, due to both languages being in the Finno-Ugric language group.
@@hbtm_434 Sure HBTM, I'm aware of the German influence (eg loss = Schloss, amet = Amt, kunst = Kunst) but I'm sure that someone who knew German and looked at a piece of Estonian text wouldn't conclude that the language looked Germanic.
Great documentary movie! Greetings from Poland.
Black and white film from 80s & 90s. That's a perspective for being behind the west.
Ok, the conclusion part was so stupid. Peaceful disintegration of the Soviet Empire? War in Grozny, Massacred Azerbaijanis by armenia, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Transnistria right when it was disintegrating. Today the war in Ukraine, seriously this documentary is very Estonia-centrical (which is totally fine as it focuses on Estonia) , it should have conlcuded like "phew- not many casualties here, let's now act like we are Nordic"
It was peaceful. The movements for independent republics were a consequence of Gorbachev's liberalization policies, not their cause. Most people didn't want independent republics. In a March 1991 referendum, most had voted to stay in a reformed Union that respected individual and national rights. Only the Baltic states, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia had held their own referendums and had overwhelmingly voted for independence.
From _Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945_ by Tony Judt: "The disappearance of the Soviet Union was a remarkable affair, unparalleled in modern history. There was no foreign war, no bloody revolution, no natural catastrophe. A large industrial state -- a military superpower -- simply collapsed: its authority drained away, its institutions evaporated. The unraveling of the USSR was not altogether free of violence, as we have seen in Lithuania and the Caucasus; and there would be more fighting in some of the independent republics in the coming years. But for the most part the world's largest country departed the stage almost without protest. To describe this as a bloodless retreat from Empire is surely accurate; but it hardly begins to capture the unanticipated ease of the whole process." books.google.nl/books?id=aU8laRbSvrMC&pg=PA657
Kristina S. Are you trying to prove that most people actually liked the Soviet Union? The fact that a bit of free speech allowed by Gorbachev opened up a world of dissent proves the opposite.
+Nick Savage Most of the population didn't dislike the USSR enough to want it gone. That's why most voted to stay in a reformed Soviet Union, that would respect individual and national rights.
+Nick Savage Most Central Asians liked the USSR. These nations had no history of independence, they were created in the 1920s and 1930s by nationalists supported by the Soviet regime, and also received massive economic support from Russia and other European republics. There was a movement to make Russia independent from the USSR, these people believed that the Soviet regime was destroying Russian culture and that Central Asia was an economic drain on Russia. But in Central Asia there were no pro-independence movements. "Central Asia, and Kyrgyzstan, did not launch an independence movement from the USSR, instead the USSR/Russia removed itself from Central Asia. The result of Soviet/Russian colonization was that the collapse of the USSR was an about and unexpected end to membership in what most residents regarded as a legitimate political community. Unlike the Baltics or Eastern Europe, or Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan along with other Central Asian states, did not want to leave the USSR. The ambivalence, even reluctance, with which Kyrgyzstan greeted the Soviet Union's collapse is directly related to the Soviet contribution in modernizing Kyrgyzstan and in nurturing, if only unintentionally, the beginnings of a Kyrgyz national identity. In a March 17, 1991, referendum (nine months prior to the official end of the USSR) the Central Asians overwhelmingly voted to remain part of the USSR. The population of Kyrgyzstan today is not one that looks back to a heroic resistance or a daring independence movement. There are no democratic leaders in Kyrgyzstan since there was no movement for freedom, independence, and democracy. The resulting post-Soviet population generally feels abandoned and years for the Soviet past. With no goal, no struggle, no clear vision of the future, anarchy is one likely resulting state of affairs. *The population of Kyrgyzstan is one that did not want to leave the USSR, and today overwhelmingly agrees that life was much better during Soviet times than today because there was certainty, security, and jobs."* books.google.nl/books?id=jGTXJ65Z2j4C&pg=PA97
awesome hearing so much Estonian spoken
It is amazing how Gorbachev is smiling and laughing while people talk about dismantling the country. I try to imagine Brejnev or Khrushchev in the same situation...or Stalin....OMG...
Times had changed gone where the days when they could just be taken out back and shot with no consequences.
@@jamescromarty1455 There still existed old school guys. There existed operative plans in the spirit of Stalin. The trains were ready, hundreds of thousands of pairs of handcuffs were stored and waited for the X hour. It might have happened. Blood might have been shed. Lives could have been destroyed.
10:52 chopin revolutionary etude 17:12 mozart requirem
9:35 Footage from Vilnius, Lithuania January 13th 1991.
Its almost orgasmic to find something, like this, that is so informative and well done about a time in history that most of us THINK we know about. Yet I did not know about any of this. lol Brilliant film.
I didn’t know about how the Estonians used the secret protocols of the Non-Aggression Pact (though I did know about those protocols) to leverage their independence. But I did remember the human chain across the three Baltic States.
the world is so different now that I can hardly believe that this happened only 30 or so years ago
Loving this Euro music
Winners write/distort History!
Because those who lose aren’t discontented at all 🙄🙄🙄
good work
Very well done. I think now historians are emphasizing that the cost of the Soviet military buildup, the cost of the Afghan war, and the cost of Chernobyl were eventually just too much for the Soviet economy which was very fragile anyway.
Country can't fall just because of economy. People hated USSR. System just politically bankrupt.
It was interesting seeing people living back in those times. Completely different time in history.
Nothing escapes you, does it ?
Some of us were adults then kiddo.
didn't know that Estonian language sounds so similar to Finnish or Suomi however you call it
Check out the National Anthems too almost the same
You do now
estonia just sounds like speech impaired finnish to me
Uralic languages :)
It’s because Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian are all Finno-Ugric languages originating around the Ural Mountains, in the age of migration they ended up in different places, so the languages diverged, but they’re all from the same root.
good documentery! from India 🇮🇳
8:17 what a meeting! in some random hallway, not even facing each other. just on a couch.
& it was just amazing enough that the Commies simply didn’t just snuff it out in the same old way!
5:42 “look busy”
At our meeting in the elevator lobby
11:08 Gdansk dance Revolution.
Thanks
phenomenal piece. learned so much. ILL BET ANYTHING RUSSIANS TODAY ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS DOCUMENTARY AND LOOK BACK ON THIS PERIOD IN HISTORY WITH A SOME SHAME. I WONDER... PUTIN SURE WOULD FEEL THAT WAY. FANTSTIC FILM.
10:55 Revolutionary etude fits the scene well..
58:45 to 59:26 Intro to the Estonian National Anthem. Beautiful!
Freedom is subjective it powers the heart, loved the evolution aspect ♥️♥️♥️
I lived and studied in former USSR during these tumultuous times
Not only in 20th century but for all centuries.
A more or less non-violent end to an empire that had required about 300,000 direct casualties and about as 450,000 military personnel dead from disease to come into being (according to Soviet demographer Boris Urlanis; source- Wikipedia). Good documentary. Eye opener to the Baltic situation in the late 80's.
When everyone is entitled to everything, no one is responsible for anything..
Soviet citizens were entitled to very little. The Party and government bureaucrats were the ones who drank like pigs at the public trough.
Well said.
I'm from Chilliwack BC Canada I was in Berlin just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in March but still need day visa Cross to east side
Bravo to the Estonian and Polish people for showing such immense courage and patience!
Yegor Gaidar has written a pretty good book about the collapse of USSR.
Many Russians held him responsible for the economic hardships that plagued the country in the 1990s that resulted in mass poverty and hyperinflation. Ye you should listen that guy
hi is a traitor gaigar is trastor. hypocrate false.
For historical accuracy, the secret protocol also allowed the USSR to annex eastern Moldova (present day Republic of Moldova) and northern Bukovina (today part of Ukraine) from the kingdom of Romania.
What is the song in the beginning few seconds ?
Gorbachev seems like a good man. It takes someone with a true heart to willingly give up that level of power.
I never knew Estonia's perseverance was one of the engines that powered the downfall of USSR. This is to prove that nobody can truly ever defeat a united people. As a Romanian who had to suffer because of the Communism, I give thanks to the Baltic people, whom I can consider to be my friends, for the good they indirectly did to my life. It would have been a drastically different live, should Communism have continued.
Romanians served the Nazis. Be thankful you're not destroyed. Russians are too kind to Romanians.
Scorpius look at how kind the USSR was to Romania in 1989, indeed, they were not very kind.
The damn Bolsheviks claimed to be athiests to hid her blood lusts to Gods people everyehere.They were Satanists and proved it starting in old Soviet Union. To paraphrase Reagan:Putin before you retire, tear down that Vile Lenin tomb and bury his evil remains in some unmarked hole. How can his body be still there while this POS was the man who gave the orders too butcher theCzars family and servants? Destroy that vile symbol of Pure evil Mr. President .Now!!
1:23 The BGM had this 'Deus Ex' vibe.
Excellent material. But please correct the commentary about the R-M Pact. It included also taking 1/2 of Poland’s territory. Also Moldavia. Thank you.
Gorvachov was a mother. Can you imagine today if a separatist region of China were to look for its independence and have the passivity and approval for meeting of Xi?..Can you imagine that?..Unthinkable, with a strong leader. But possible with a mother like Gorbi.
I remember that my mom was an ussr citizen and when the ussr collapsed alot of people were shocked, TV channels were closed or something..., alot of people were confused ,after that, the crimes started alot and cops were confused and it was hard to take controle that time, and i heard alot of people said that there were good times,so i started to became curios and interested, anyways i think ussr had a good and bad things and it had alot of talented people... but ussr was a worthful country.
"i said i wish the ussr came back"...so did Putin, and he's working hard at it
Because your just dumb. You idiots love to be controled like mice
@KAY EM yeah well communists were a lot poorer than the western people, which is why they tried to flee from the east to the west. So yeah sorry captitalism>communism
There were hard times....I remember all the old people/pentioners starving and freezing, the hyperinflation of the 1990's having left them penniless.
@@mshbeatbox You idiot love to be controlled by some west medias.
Superb -
I lived through this whole era of history but never fully understood the earth-shaking process that overturned the Soviet Union.
This wasnt what caused the collapse of the USSR
@@sisyphusvasilias3943 what actually caused it, I have been trying to find out...
@@ajaoabiola7919 poss' sarcasm but.... obv a comment is not enough to give the full story but it wasn't nationalism, that was a factor in 4 small unions only. Mostly socio-economic. Economic stagnation, led to product shortages (empty shelves bread lines) and badly managed enterprises (businesses) People WANTED Reform but only Policy Reform, not the reform of Socialism or USSR itself. Gorbachev was a reformist and dangerously a populist. He tried to make too many people happy (including the west, USSRS enemy) and changed too much too fast. PRC's reforms worked because they rolled them out over 30yrs and run them with discipline. IT got chaotic at home then Reagan decided to go all out and end USSR not just compete/contain it. The Dirty wars stretched the USSR Gov internationaly and Financially, especially the Afghan War that USA started. Which drove up the defense budget to something stupid like 15%-20% of GDP unsustainable. USA pushed the arms race to drive USSR broke and at the same time cut off USSR from most its foreign markets so it could acquire enough US$ dollars to buy all the stuff it needed but couldnt make in Soviet aligned countries. Then the Warsaw Pact countries got all their freedoms and Democracy at once and just instantly dumped the Soviet system and that led to the collapse of the Planned Central economy... But the final straw were the Traitors, the Presidents of Belarus, UKR and Yeltsin of Russia. They could get no higher in power within USSR, they could only get more powerful as presidents of independent states. They conspired to break up the USSR (against the will of the people), They had guarantees of help from USA including $$ and diplomatic and media support, most likely CIA training and CIA trained militias too. And they revolted and just declared the USSR was dead. they did so in the middle of the night in the middle of a forest in the middle of Bellorussia, they were hiding from their own people. Western media declared the USSR dissolved before 99.9% of Soviets knew that was even a possibility. One failed Communist counter-coup failed in less than 24hrs.... and that was it until the shortlived but brutal 93 Russian Revolution which tried to oust Yeltsin and restore Socialism. But by then it was too late. Gangster Kleptocracy was the new system, brutal violence became the rule, so many murderers Police didnt even record the names of the bodies. The economy collapsed and didnt recover until 2003-5. Thats a brief summary off the top of my head.