Episode 303 GEORGE H.W. BUSH The Soviet Coup (Part 3) The Collapse

George H.W. Bush 1991 The Clarence Thomas Hearings

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On the third day the Coup collapses. This is that story. From the moment the three people perish the coup becomes a trainwreck.
At one point they go back to work out a deal with Gorbachev and nothing works. By the end of this day, Yeltsin has emerged as the man who saved the Soviet Union, for the moment anyway, and Gorbachev is on his way back to Moscow, but it is clear to the world that everything has changed.
As the Coup collapsed, the many different Republics declared themselves independent and by the end of the week it appears the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse itself, which will occur later in 1991.
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Chapters

1. The Coup that killed the USSR - Radio Free Europe (segment from report) (00:00:00)

2. Music Intro (00:01:40)

3. Host Randal Wallace welcomes you to the show (00:02:05)

4. Failure of the Soviet Coup - Russian T.V. - Radio broadcast from C-Span (00:02:56)

5. Former U. N . Ambassador Jean Kilpatrick talks about the Soviet Coup at an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute. (00:10:31)

6. Host Randal Wallace talks about the Coup (00:19:02)

7. ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings Day 3 of the Soviet Coup as it collapses (00:19:24)

8. Closing music (00:41:21)