Tanks on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square on the day the August Coup started in 1991. Andrei Soloviev / TASS
Moscow Times: ‘It Was All for Nothing’: Russia Marks August Coup With Regret, Indifference
Thirty years on, The Moscow Times spoke to surviving participants in the events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birth of a new Russia.
In the center of Moscow, hidden behind two lanes of heaving traffic on the New Arbat commercial thoroughfare, stands a small concrete monument bearing the names of three young men killed by tanks on the night of Aug. 21 1991, as a coup by communist hardliners to preserve the unravelling Soviet Union flamed out.
It is the Russian capital’s only memorial to the August Coup that sounded the death knell for the Soviet Union and the birth of the Russian Federation, but today is barely celebrated, even by the country’s beleaguered democrats.
“The coup was an idiotic affair, completely absurd,” said Grigory Yavlinsky, then an advisor to the Soviet government on economic reform and later a liberal politician, who joined the crowds who had rallied against the putschists on hearing of the coup.
“When it all collapsed, people were shouting ‘victory’ and’ ‘freedom.’ But it didn’t feel like that to me.”
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Update #1: Hardline coup set the stage for Soviet collapse 30 years ago (AP)
Update #2: Fall of the Soviet Union: Three days that shook Russia and the world (The Independent)
WNU Editor: I could not believe at the time that these Communist die-hards thought they would be successful. To say that I was relieved at the time that when the crisis ended is an understatement.
8 comments:
We will celebrate a day like this too once the Marxist globalist scum is hung for their crimes against humanity and democracy
In the US
In France
In Australia
In Canada
They will hang
We will celebrate and tell our children how we lived through terror and biomedical tyranny, and how they used fear against us
Looking forward to dance on their corpses
Latest war room discussing Australia's lockdowns, Europe and the US including the Marxist concentration camps they're building and what they do to children in schools
https://rumble.com/vlbyx9-war-room-full-show-tuesday-81721.html
National freedom day in the US will be going to that graveyard of political activists and treasonous "leaders", and letting our children piss on their graves
Their names, like Pelosi,Swalwell,Schiff will be curse words
Stop pelosing around
Stop shifting
Swalwell is already bad enough, no need to add anything
And racist thug Lemon of course too stop being a Lemon!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-don-lemon-tuned-up-viral-maskless-man
Jan 6 came and went and now 500 of your bros going to trial...losers all
Yeah you're right.. some of them were denied to even see a judge for half a year now. Some of them are tortured.
But hey, your side "won", so fck human rights or the constitution, right?
People like you are the exact reason why Nazis rose to power. Exactly like you.
I have not the time nor even the inclination to go into facts and history, but for starters:
1. the Nazis came to power in a Germany that had very serious depression and money was totally worthless.
2. by contrast, the US has at present a booming economy with more jobs available than workers for those jobs.
My point: if you are going to refer to "nazis and Germany" do some reading first.
Obviously you've never had the time or inclination for facts or history.
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