Remembering the Overthrow of Gorbachev, 20 Years Later

[alp227]

Run time: 04:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVa3wkJUXlw   Posted on YouTube: August 20, 2011 By YouTube Member: PBSNewsHour Views on YouTube: 292   Posted on DU: August 21, 2011 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 1011

 
Twenty years ago, the stunning overthrow of USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev by a Communist coup dominated the news. The coup eventually backfired and led to the end of the Soviet Union. Jeffrey Brown takes a look back at the last days of the USSR. (Transcript; clips from the August 19, 1991 edition of The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.)

[nineteen50]

1. It" coming

Can you say super congress committee?

[ProgressoDem]

2. Wait, it got overthrown?

I thought that the Soviet Union was on the rise?

[iamthebandfanman]

3. of course, ray gun single handily them down... lol n/t

[David Sky]

5. I think news of the fall of the Soviet Union, is premature, according to...

our next Tea Party, first woman President!!!

She says Americans fear the rise of the Soviet Union, so it must be true.

[AverageJoe90]

4. I think history is going to repeat itself in a certain East Asian country one of these days.

And in fact, it's not so much a matter of if, as when, China, yes CHINA, will see something similar to what occurred in Russia between '85 & '91.