Fall of the Soviet Union | USSR | Baltic States | Red Army | Perestroika | This Week | 1991
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2022
- *This is a slightly shortened version of the original production.
In a national referendum on Sunday the 17th of March, the 15 Republics that make up the USSR vote to either stay soviet or break away from Moscow.
The Baltic Republics have already voted for independence. In his desperate struggle to hold the union together Gorbachev has been accused of turning away from Perestroika, and using the KGB and Red army to force his will on the soviet people.
‘This Weeks’ speak to members of the Red Army, who are refusing to fire upon civilians and say that they will not support a President who tries to use them this way.
Reporter: Debi Davies
First shown: 14/03/1991
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I had a Russian Uber driver a few years ago that had served in the army during the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was stationed down in Uzbekistan when it happened. Overnight basically he lost his job and then became stranded because he had no Russian passport. After a while he eventually found work at a tobacco plant that an American company became partners at. There he met Americans and one of the managers helped him get back to Moscow. They also helped him apply for a visa to move to America where his sister was. The guy seemed pretty grateful to be hear close to family.
Soon America will fall apart
@@GrigVan Yeah sure, looks more like Russia will, buddy
damn son...ruined your comment by typing hear instead of here...
@@vinanoir 🤓
When russians open mouth, they lying
Incredible piece of history. Probably among the first pieces of film showing Soviet life in the west without a filter.
@Иван Иванов grow up
@@tomparker962 lol
@@tomparker962 America loved the Red Army and Soviet atrocities in WW2. Maybe you should grow up?
@@jasonm949 who are you his boyfriend
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Amazing content and quality. Wish we could go back to this kind of reporting.
Democracy now does a great job
We have too much reporting. What was killed in 2013 was journalism.
True. The days when we had proper news, not the biased politically motivated crap we get today.
Radio Free Europe channel is extremely good and unbiased.
@@badmonkey2222 if you have to put Free in the title it may mean the opposite right?
It blows my mind that this was done 30 years ago. Yet it brings back to us how tense it was.
AND, This is HOW reporting should be done factual and no nonsense with NO leaning either way!
Really? The amount of western media spin was just as bad back then, as it is now.
@@TrueBrit1 at least in america its not near as bad as it is now. News media in america is stupid, terror filled, and a propaganda machine depending on whatever political stance you could possibly take. At least with this news article you could learn something new.
@@TrueBrit1 it's much worse now
Америку разбомбим нахрен! Ждите!
There is A LOT of leaning in this report.
You can tell how much the Red Army hated Leadership of the USSR at that time.
They blamed Moscow for the debacle in Afghanistan. In the space of a decade, the Afghan resistance..... with crucial help from the CIA...... managed to whip the Soviet 40th Army into a hot, fucked up mess. They still managed a more orderly withdrawal than Biden would've ever accomplished in his wettest dreams.
There are 2 main opposite reactions that can be referred to this comment : "Tell me about it" & "Bruh have you seen what the imperialist Americans have done in the middle east?"
Unfortunately they didnt see how this was its greatest strength to progress. The anglo version of free speech can help so much.
This video mentions subdued protests in Tbilisi (Georgia, 1989), but fails to mention Leadership trying to whitewash itself by publicly putting blame on Army back then. The consequence of that was not only discontent in Army, but also soldiers of various ranks becoming reluctant to thoughtlessly carry orders which could be condemned by society.
And it’s no different today.
Fascinating content, and the picture quality is so much better than contemporary footage. 👍
I'm assuming it was probably shot on 16mm film and properly telecined.
Yes. Considering the year it was filmed the picture quality is amazing..
@@hglf9764 is that how they got a clear picture back then?
@@matty6848 I remember when my parents got a fancy new 32" wide-screen TV with a satellite feed and I still had a 4:3 CRT with an over the air analog signal. I was blown away by the downgrade in picture quality they had. It's the same coming away from well shot film. Tape and direct to disc are worse. They're easier to shoot, easier to edit and easier to store, but the quality isn't there.
@@davelowe1977 thanks👍🏻
They drafted me as a conscript to Soviet army. Served two years. Came back and after four months was on barricades in Riga. Viktor Alksnis still live in Russia.
Hah, makes sense. I reckon you boys would've ripped him apart and made little dolls out of the bits. What a prick. Glad you made it out the other side of oppression, brother. Free peoples will always win.
@@HANKTHEDANKEST look up their population during USSR and now. Freedom lol
@@snowsnow4231 Look down at your feet. Isn't it yellow snow down there? Remember Frank Zappa? He waned you not to eat yellow snow.
@@fidenemini111 you are the one getting smashed by facts here, come back when you bring anything to argue with.
@@snowsnow4231What? :D They are definitely more free now.
Gorbachev just died few hours ago..
Algorithms are cursed
Let those damn commie go to hell..lol For the Russian Empire, Urraa!!!
@North Korea Is Second Best Korea, what a good video lol
@North Korea Is Second Best Korea Haha you got Gorbied!
Gorbius
@@TF2Scout.. Love the part where he said "it's gorbin' time" and single-handedly dismantled the entire Soviet Union
Thank you for this docu. No bs, just straight up interviews and a glimpse at the past. We can learn a lot from this.
Thanks for share us this information!!
God bless you Thames TV!!
This is both an amazing piece of journalism and an amazing historical document, particularly poignant today
Quality stuff. Really gave some good perspectives.
Amazing journalism!
wonder what became of these young soldiers? Wonder what became of the officer who essentially said the Army would stage a coup - wonder if he did do in August 1991.
Probably drank themselves to death just are the Ukrainian invaders today will do when they go back to their rural villages. Once their war stories are over and the weight of the hate they perpetuated settles in on them
They probably grew older and now have families of their own
amazing amount of transparency from who would have thunk, the Red Army, way more open that the current Russian Army
Way more open than Western armies, just think of the massacres WikiLeaks released and the concequences for Maning
В 91-м, не было Красной Армии. По сути, не было уже даже советской. Это перестройка. Сейчас у нас тоже не демократия, но до советского режима, ещё очень далеко.
Interesting video. In the days since the death of Gorbachev news reports have said that Gorbachev was praised in the West but blamed in Russia for the break up of the Soviet Union yet if was the Russian Federation in 1990 under Yeltsin which declared it own independence and took powers away from the Soviet government.
Incredible that anyone outside the former USSR knows this!! Yes, Yeltsin in Russia wrecked the USSR. And ironically today's Russia still celebrates the anniversary of that day in 1990 as "Russia Day". Without support from the liberals and 'democrats' in Russia (we saw how democratic Yeltsin was when he bombed the parliament in 1993 and stole the election in 1996) the other Soviet republics would never be independent. But the reasons people blame Gorbachev is because there would be no Yeltsin without Gorbachev. Yeltsin was just a party boss in Sverdlovsk (and a rather bad one at that) before being brought to Moscow by Gorbachev ally Yegor Ligachev.
Correct comrade. Bringing Yeltsin into fold and the Kremlin was the a bad move by Gorbachev. Yeltsin went onto stab the state in the back.
He was not praised in the West for "breaking" the Soviet Union but for ending the Could war. The West would have welcomed a democratic Soviet Union as well. Besides: Russia was one of the first republics leaving the Soviet Union.
Fascinating video. The fact that the journalists were able to freely interview so many Red Army soldiers and get their honest opinions is pretty amazing in hindsight. It certainly shows that the Communist Party had completely lost control and why the hardliners failed in their coup months later.
anyone else find it crazy how that lady's voice is still heard to this day
You just blew my mind 🤯 her voice has been used in every single journalist report since before the dawn of history.
It is Miracle!! Just before 2 days death of Mikhail Gorbachev.. Thames tv channel uploaded this video.
yes that scumbag whose rule caused the premature deaths of as many as 10 million Russians finally died.
11:48 "In Vilnius tanks were used to defend ourselves"
30+ years later: *footage of tanks driving over unarmed civilians in Vilnius*
Look guys, the Russians are "defending themselves" in Ukraine!
but all politics and what not aside, this is really interesting footage and coverage. It's interesting to hear the side of the Red Army soldiers of the time, as I haven't really heard anything about them before. It's nice to hear that a lot of soldiers refused to come to Vilnius, and I'm thankful for them making the right decision.
Learned from USA
Source : CNN
@@-_Hatred_- learned from facts and what happened
@@markusraat818, I mean Russia learned from USA
@@humanbean392 source: bullet holes in the walls of my city remaining from 1991, footage recorded by people documenting the events, first hand accounts from people who were present at the time (corroborated by said footage), and so on.
Really enjoyed this.
The modern Russian armed forces are a shadow of what was once the mighty Soviet Armed Forces, even at the very end...
and that's a good thing
@@qwertyuiopasdfghj001 good thing for her enemies but not good for it's civilians.
Honestly, but they’re making a comeback.
@@utahraptor4729874 but they will never be the same lvl be it man power as Soviet army.
@@someguy4512 true
Out of all the videos posted here, I think this has racked up quite alot of viewings compared to other uploads for the reasons we all know what is going on in the world today...
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Nation sticks together despite the army, if nation exists thanks to army, it does not exist. If Soviet people had to be kept together by force, there were no such thing as Soviet people
Но это верно при условии свободного ношения оружия. К большому сожалению, советскому народу его не выдали.
Были сформированы антиконституционные вооруженные банды, которые силой захватили местные законно избранные органы государственной власти. Об этом прямо сказал ГКЧП.
I could feel the tension in this video
What language is this subtitled in? Just think of the complexity it takes to summarize this entire story as "Fremantle"
"Fremantle" appears to be some kind of production company
Absolutely Kino
0:23 Vostok Komandirskie watch. Still produced to this date.
Fantastic video
What’s a “Malakov Pistol”? 14:37.
Doesn’t she mean, Makarov!
@Ben Lawson What do you expect from Journalists, they are uneducated.
"Remember. No Prussian."
And at 5:00 she says that Afghanistan is in Eastern Europe...
Video uploaded right before Gorbachev died
Red Army is so strong it destroyed the USSR by threatening to destroy itself.
First colonel on the screen at 0:00:58 , named Alksnis is the Colonel of KGB.
Most probably film-makes did not wish to know that
1:01 Is that David Mitchell doing a voiceover?
😂
I was only 6 years old when this happened but even then I knew my grandmother was Lithuanian. Thankfully she was living in New Jersey at the time but I can remember the excitement everybody in my family felt about the Iron Curtain coming down. It was the first time we could see our relatives we'd been exchanging letters with for decades.
As a kid I was extremely proud of the fact that Lithuania was the first Soviet republic to declare its independence but I was also a bit troubled by the condition it was in after 50 years of Russian occupation. It's incredible how far the Baltic countries have come since then and the war in Ukraine shows how important it is to be a member of NATO to protect all that progress!!
"Russian occupation" 🤡🤡🤡
You do realize that Ukraine was a part of the USSR right?
As an Indian, I would willingly replace being being part of the USSR than 200 years as a british colony.
@Data Analyst Well Indians are South Asians with their own history and mentality. Lithuanians aren't.
What was your point again?
@@Mahalakshmi-Khan stop being india's representative u commie ...we will always be sovereign...
@@eliasziad7864 What does that have to do with anything?
The male voice dubbed sounded like the general from the Commandos series.
0:29 my dad served in SA and I remember all my childhood I waked up from this words “ Rota pod-yom “ every morning at 6am 😅
westerners forget that the baltics were occupied in the 1940s by the soviets,the secret protocols of the molotov ribentrop pact states how the 2 countries split their lands in europe.
The Soviets were as bad as the Nazi's.
Just sucks they blocked the clips
18:05 Viktor Tsoi poster
I cant believe that they actually called people fascist in the 90s
Why not; they are still doing it in the 2022; 23; 2024?
This makes me sad
Fremantle, how were foregin journalists permitted to film on Russian military camps?
Days of chaos
Very critical to watch considering current events
Why does it say, "Fremantle?"
Fremantle media I presume
great
Weird how these guys look more competent than modern Russian soldiers now.
Hahhaaha American cope. Do you know the US Army can't recruit enough soldiers to replenish retirements. And the ones they do recruit are borderline worthless.
I guess an America, Canadian, or Brit such as yourself has never seen a military that doesn't terrorize brown people though.
@@ZackFrisbee one, I'm not American. Two, the ones they recruit would stomp Russian recruits into a puddle. Three, if it weren't for the Americans and British, you'd be speaking German.
@@unclescipio3136 God I wish the painter man won. The United States is the most vile country on earth. I used to be an ROTC cadet, now I despise America.
@@unclescipio3136 Are you gonna be the one to give the order to send Mexicans from warm and toasty LA to fight in a region of the world that regular sees temperatures well below 0 degrees Fahrenheit? 😝
Oh the algorithm.
Damn this is feels like the 90s
it is
4:00 is very relevant today, History always seems to repeat itself.
Why does the thumbnail look like it's from a video game?
Why does it say 'Fremantle' across the screen ? So annoying.
Just ignore it.
Makarov what the hells a malakov
I say they sound like jolly good chaps
who knew that 2 days after this video was uploaded, Gorbachev dies.
20:20 Gen. Volkognov is wise.
Gorbachev was an extremely contradictive politician, but he wasn't a bloody murderer. Unfortunately, 15 people were killed by the Soviet Army, but if Gorbachev had more political will to suppress independence movement in Lithuania, there would be definitely more casualties on both sides and these brave Lithuanian freedom fighters would do absolutely nothing against brutal force of the Soviet army.
In the Russian language there is a proverb that could be translated like "Great things are better to be observed on the distance". More that 30 years after 1991 it is evident, at lease personally for me, that the price of Lithuanian independence could be much higher.
But the evil USSR gave Lithuania Vilnius from Poland and Memel from East Prussia.
And now karma affects their entire country.There is a high depopulation and loss of industry.
This is the price of betrayal - the USSR created it from different parts of neighboring countries, despite the fact that some residents there killed many Jews and fought along with the Ss-Germans.
@@pooq6611 Lol such an idiotic comment. Memel was already annexed by Lithuania from France in 1923 and Vilnius was already a part of Lithuania before it was occupied by the poles in 1919. I recommend you go back to farming your bulbashkas, and not commenting on history.
@@pooq6611 Vilnius was always Lithuanian territory lol, and I think Memel had a large Lithuanian minority or even a majority. It is like saying the Poles owning Danzig, Silesia or southern East Prussia is an illegal occupation. They have their basis in local demographics (at least Lithuania) but you would be right if you said these changes were made mostly for Stalin and his cronies
In politics there is death caused by action and by inaction. Gorbachev's actions and inaction in 1988-1991 have led to the deaths of as many as 10 million people across the former Soviet space. He didn't murder them directly but that is what his policies and weakness resulted in. In Russia he will forever be cursed as a Judas; except Judas actually had the decency to kill himself after realizing what he'd done.
i tought this was a gmod video cus the people in the title dont look real
General Ginutis Taurinskas got his time in prison :D
museum, at a time when western countries were moving forward, there was tank production and work for $ 3 a month
I wonder what Stalin would have done in such a situation
Stalin would have repressed the shit out of the liberal/'democrat' factions of the CPSU (just like Gorbachev repressed and dismantled the conservative wing of the CPSU). This would be very difficult after 1988-1990, but I think doable if the power block (army, a KGB purged of opportunists and sellouts) was on his side.
@@ilyatsukanov8707 Yet he was left to die in the pool of his own piss. Deal with it, tovarishch.
STALIN & Hitler DID pacted such situation!! Then the ruZZians BLOOD red army called themselves "liberators"
My grandmother had to flee the red army, she always hated Russia and was quick to explain. I struggle to see what has changed in 80 years
why and when did she flee?
Погода конечно крайне аутентичная.
What?
@@jasonsolis5416 Use Google Translate, like all foreigners do.
@@jasonsolis5416 learn Russian, you'll soon be needing it.
@@igor_pavlovich lol!!! then how about you learn Chinese, before you get forcefully re-educated by your new Overlords
@@igor_pavlovich russian is a irrelevant language.
I bet those same sinks 2:30 are still there lol
Chances are someone stole the copper like they stole copper from thousands of tanks.
2 days ago Gorbachov if I said it right he died
Good riddance to bad rubbish (Garbageov).
I wonder if Captain Ramius managed to get back home after the fall of the Soviets.
The world was safer with two superpowers. Unchecked power will always be more dangerous.
The world is safer now with America at the helm
Go to Russia, North Korea or China to see how safe you are
So who should be that second superpower? Surely not the Russian Federation, given what they've been doing?
@@theoutlook55 I don't think any country should have the capabilities of a superpower, but the reality is that they exist, and beggars can't be choosers. It seems very likely that China is the best candidate for being a second superpower, though I'd personally prefer if European powers jointly took up that mantle.
@@theoutlook55 it was better on both sides when it was the U.S. and USSR
@@theoutlook55 USSR/USA rivalry was superior
Brooo all the soldiers were named Alexander 😭😭
The thing I find interesting is the story about claims of fascists and nationalists, which also couldn't be found.
This is what coming for you @7:54 Americans, Identification and Travel Papers from the New STASI Inspired Police State we live in
lol coming? You guys already have level of surveillance USSR and East Germany couldn't even imagine with all the smartphones and computer-based tracking and Covid ids and other stuff.
There's a famous East German joke from the 80s: "How can you tell that the Stasi has bugged your apartment? - There's a new cabinet in it and a trailer with a generator in the street."
@@ilyatsukanov8707
Excellent points, I just Despise how the Local Police in this country have been Militarized. They Don't Need Tactical Gear to Oppress their Neighbors, this Isn't Fallujah
4:00 using the same tactics 30 years later with Ukraine.
20 years later* Poroshenko started the Genocide in 2014 unless you get your info from CNN+
@@mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520 the guy with an antisemetic name talking about genocide.... yea you seem trustworthy. incel
now this is some great footage, who would have known that red army commander in 1991 would be much more progressive, open and proffesional than the current russian army.
13:25 this guy anyone recognise him
Gorbachev just died too
yes
This is SO OLD!
Уже по первым кадрам видно, что показуха ))) рота подьем так не кричат
Gorbachev has satisfy and now he's dead
A bygone age when the news acted muture not like now
Youre just choosing to be ignorant
Plenty of good news organizations on RUclips
PBS
DW
Al-Jazeera
@@joecool9739 dude what.... I just said that the way the media behaves today is childish compared to the 90s....
@@solidustiger9639
Like I said, youre choosing to be ignorant
I didn't know some soviet-russian soldiers refused to partake in atrocities. However their belief in unity of 'people' and the soviet army is delusional. The real people of the Baltic states didn't care about the soviet army and how they 'protected' the people. They wanted the soviets gone no matter how 'good' intentions of some of those army men were.
Amusing the UK going through Brexit and Scotland ,Ireland seeking to breaking away today..
This whole video is kind is ironic
@@anthonyfuentes947 Scots and Irish Welch ,Cornish all want to be independent of English ..
Funny how BBC goes around to other countries criticize mock them but have a disaster at home.. 😂
Britain has always been an illegal occupier in Ireland 🇮🇪
Fremantle
My father served in the Soviet Navy from 1987-1989... When he immigrated to Israel he left his medals there. He didn't want to be used as a political pawn...
And now he kill muslim
another 'victim" stealing Palestinian land.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa conveniently forgot about Palestinian Christians
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa Nope, that's my job
@@mat3693 Don't know what you're talking about learn hostory
Odly sjn, relex la mana ada perang,
Hmm very garang..
I was 6 years old. Ukrainian USSR. Thank you.
As an Estonian I would like to say that for Estonians the fall of the Soviet Union was the best thing that happened in the 20th century.
Yes indeed ! The soviets were evil.
Amen
Tere from your brother in Finland! It most certainly was!🇫🇮💙🇪🇪
My parents lived in Belarus and they both told me that the best soviet life was in the Baltic states
They would constantly go to Vilnius or Riga to vacation, especially Riga to the Baltic Sea
My father liked to go to Soviet Ukraine a lot
Baltic and Ukraine always had the best stuff in the ussr and were some of the most heavily funded republics
Spoiled Baltic people and Ukrainians had it best in the ussr and now they are the ones complaining
Being negative and nasty and a lot of over exaggerated hate
Shame on you
@@timoilonen1926 lol if Estonia is so awesome why don’t you move there lol
The USSR is gone and so is Journalism
Whats happening in Ukraine is the continuation of this. There is much content about the Army refusing to obey orders, which could open a good perspective what may in happen in Russia today.
Для того чтобы комментировать сегодняшние события в Украине ,нужно здесь находиться .
нет не надо. и вообще, о чем ты бормочишь? - ты не в Украине.@@millefolium2321
It's a little more complicated than that.
its not, the main issue is the integrity of the country how Putin or USSR KGB reacted to it. Putin is simply continuing the USSR line through the guidance of Primakov@@sid2112
Putin prepared the invasion with propaganda. Today nobody seems to think for themself in the Russian army anymore.
Back in the USSR 👆
Кто нибудь хоть знает почему там Советская Армия находилась?
4:00 hmmmm sounds familiar
They finally got Freedom
полковник Виктор Алкснис, респект и уважуха! стоял до конца и не предал.... знай что страна помнит своих героев! а врагов обнулит. Спасибо что сделал все от тебя зависящее, в то непростое время
Nožēlojama žurka...
Литва.Каунас.Вітаємо героїчний народ України.Бажаємо перемоги над силами темряви.Слава Україні та збройним силам України!!!🇱🇹❤️🇺🇦
USSR SHOULD INVESTED IN RIOT CONTROL GEAR
This was a tragedy for the world.
it wasnt
@@Alex-oq8yg It really was.
@@garethmartin6522 why
A tragedy for the poor fools that stayed aligned with Moscow 👍
интересно
It’s sad to think that people want western nations to go about things how the USSR once did. Sad.
Some of those soldiers were freaking hot.
Only reason the Soviets lasted till the 90s was because of the Americans in WW2
Nazi germany fell because of soviet sacrifice 27million
Cope nice,if it werent for the sacrifices of the soviets and stalin,than you would have been speaking german
At 4:10 the sovjets use the same logics to start a war with Ukraine.
Biden Bootlicker