A look at the USSR Early August 1991

[seventeethdecember2016]

This video was taken a 1-2 weeks prior to the August coup.

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It is not a propaganda/anti-Soviet film, just a tourist videoing what they've experiences.

[seventeethdecember2016]

Anyone have any comments?

[kevster03]

well it was kind of boring, however there were interesting parts. the fire rescue @ 36 minutes was neat to watch.

[seventeethdecember2016]

well it was kind of boring, however there were interesting parts. the fire rescue @ 36 minutes was neat to watch.
Well considering the time period, I think it is pretty significant. Your right it is quite boring, but it is a look at life in the USSR one week before everything went sour.

[kevster03]

Agreed it is significant. Good find :-)

[u.s.red]

just looking at it briefly, moscow seems impossibly clean and neat.

this is the degraded, stalinist, starving socialist state?

[seventeethdecember2016]

just looking at it briefly, moscow seems impossibly clean and neat.

this is the degraded, stalinist, starving socialist state?
There is more to Russia than just Moscow, and Moscow has historically been a city of amazing features, and still is, at least comparative to other parts of Russia.

I like to blame Gorbachev(perhaps I shouldn't blame just him, but whatever) for the degradation of the USSR.

[m1omfg]

There is more to Russia than just Moscow, and Moscow has historically been a city of amazing features, and still is, at least comparative to other parts of Russia.

I like to blame Gorbachev(perhaps I shouldn't blame just him, but whatever) for the degradation of the USSR.

Even in 1991, USSR was not "starving". The amount of kilocalories per person was 3027, look it up here http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=8&variable_ID=212&action=select_countries . Lines and rationing do not make starvation.

[seventeethdecember2016]

Even in 1991, USSR was not "starving". The amount of kilocalories per person was 3027, look it up here http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=8&variable_ID=212&action=select_countries . Lines and rationing do not make starvation.
Thanks for this information, but I wasn't trying to make such a claim.

[Red Storm]

This film shows how quick, and unexpectedly, change can come. One thing, that is often overlooked when discussing the collapse of the USSR, is the fact that the CP officials, accepted their fate without waging one last desperate military campaign, to secure their existence. By that I mean that, despite their military might, they stood down, rather than attempt an all out fight, that may have meant the end of humanity and the planet earth as we know it. This event may be unique in all of human history, in this way, and that is a tribute to the men and women, that made up the Communist Party, and the Red Army, in those last critical days.:cool:

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

This film shows how quick, and unexpectedly, change can come. One thing, that is often overlooked when discussing the collapse of the USSR, is the fact that the CP officials, accepted their fate without waging one last desperate military campaign, to secure their existence. By that I mean that, despite their military might, they stood down, rather than attempt an all out fight, that may have meant the end of humanity and the planet earth as we know it. This event may be unique in all of human history, in this way, and that is a tribute to the men and women, that made up the Communist Party, and the Red Army, in those last critical days.:cool:

What are you blabbering about? There's a reason most of them welcomed it. The ruling echelons knew that it would benefit them. They would no longer have to suffer dachas without running water. They would no longer be limited in their excise of power by faking an aura of equality and trying not too look like they were in it for themselves. Of course they welcomed the change. Now they could do what they had been doing for quite some time but without the fear of the contradiction between the social system they pretended to stand for and support and their practical activities. They felt liberation. For the rest... well...