Russia's Black October of 1993 | Who Needs Democracy When You Have Tanks?

Да вообще эти русские недееспособные. Нужно их количество кардинально сократить и поставить им в управление международное правительство. Может тогда им найдут хорошее занятие. А то так и будут друг другу рожи чистить, да соседям жить мешать.

You should stop talking about democracy as you seem to mean the legitimate choice between two sides of the same coin every four years like in the west, a coin which only represents the ruling class with very minor factional differences, all in agreement to enrich themselves and plunder everyone else. When you speak of "western democracies", it is deceptive term, it is accurate to say, "western imperial, capitalist countries" as that is an accurate description of how they function.

A crazy time for Russia!

To be fair, newly established political systems tend to be instable.

I thought that the film was called the hunt for red October not black October

All amendments to the Constitution made by the Congress of deputies were right and absolutely correct. It wasn't just some chaos. They did as much as they could in order to make a democratic constitution with free market economy. Moreover, there was a special committee inside of the Congress wich was responsible for creating a new Constitution.

We just had a black october

I wonder how Russia would have turned out if the other would have won or it had turned into civil war

what was the music used in the introduction?

1993 doomed Russia for the rest of its history. The purpose of the Russian parliament to was keep power in check not to be a rubber stamp. But no, Yelstin didn’t like that and set the precedent on October 1993 that led to putin using the groundwork to solidify the office of president power.

Imagine being a gunner in one of those tanks being told to fire on the House of the Soviets.
I know he didn't have much of a choice, but still I wonder what he was thinking.

I do wonder what could have been if 1993 went differently.

im confused, so the supreme soviet was essentially the opposition party, but they were appointed by the executive power/parliament?

Yeltsin: Drunk in both Vodka and Power.

I realy took a lot at Black October with the first Album of Radio Tapok which has the song "Black October".
After learning on about the subject, i was surprised on how there was almost nothing on the internet about it.

One thing that i do sometimes while learning some part of our most recent history it to watch previous TV broadcast of the era, i did so with the French/Belgian medias to get a point of view of Black October and it was... weird.

Our medias told the events day to day, and during that period they where saying that Rutskoy and the others parliamentarians wanted to restore the USSR and they weren't democratic, siding with Yeltsin etc..

In Argentina, we doubled the inflation rate and surpassed the 5000% between 1989 and 1990, but we didn't attack the congress with T-80Us tanks, but that would have come in handy.

Rock, Paper, Scissors. (parliament) Paper (Boris) T A N K

Thanks to the Ukrainians there aren't so many tanks anymore.

Meanwhile the US and the west were laughing, pointing at Russia bumbling on the floor nearly drowning in its own vomit.

How the tables turned.

Corruption in Soviet Union? NO THATS NOT POSSIBLE? Just like now! PUTIN? NO CORRUPTION HERE? HA HA

Norris Yelston was busy drinking and figuring out how to be president forever probably?

Did Putin fight during this time to keep the Soviet Union in the KGB? What did he do during this time before Yeltsten handed power to him?

"Who needs fair elections when you can have rigged ones?" - 🌈 democrats

If Russians would wake the hell up and vote for a conservative or libertarian free market capitalist, Russians could be the richest people on earth with all the natural resources within that country!

Today the West and Russian liberals Garry Kasparov paint Putin as the worst human being alive. Yet he never called out the tanks and troops against his own people. Yeltsin remains a darling of both the West and Kasparov and the crisis that nearly plunged Russia into civil war 30 years ago is all but forgotten.

Yuck Feltsin

Dude, stop with the phony Russian accent.

It’s clear that shock therapy didn’t work. Neo liberalism was in fashion in the USA and leaving everything to the free market was seen as the magical solution for everything. The US then imposed this view on Russia. The strategy was already put in place before the collapse. It makes you wonder how different things would have been if the collapse had happened before neo liberalism became popular. Perhaps a more gentle reform would have taken place rather than shock therapy.

In reality it was Yeltsin who staged the coup. The parliment had the legislative right as well as to remember that the action of Yeltsin of dismantlement the parliment illegally which went against the then 1978 constitution.

A nation can not just switch towards a democracy especially if it's not in the political culture.
When leaders are used to a certain way of ruling and not open to public debate it just starts to fall apart from the start.

There was a robbery of Russian economy going on on an unprecedented scale. I recommend googling an interview "Return of Czar" by Wayne Merry, who served as a senior analyst in the US embassy in the early nineties. He gave this interview at the beginning of 2000 and openly criticized the US role in Russian social catastrophe of 1990-s. His description of what was going on is unbelievable. Later on he continued the US government career and stopped giving sympathetic interviews about Russia, but back then he had his human compassion for Russian people. I guess some of the Americans working in Russia in the 90s did mean to help ordinary people, and they were shocked at the central American policy.
So, Wayne Merry stated that the US economists, cunsultants and businessmen created a parallel government structure that was working over the heads of the official democratic structures. It was done in order to maximize the financial benefits for foreign businesses and also to make sure the Russian state loses as much property as possible to the new billionaires, even though Russian people lost all their savings, salaries and faced hyperinflation as a result.

What a fascinating documentary - what would have become of Russia had the forces backing Rutskoi succeeded? Would Yeltsin have been removed from power? It is ironic that he was the darling of the West, yet his actions in those days laid the groundwork for what would happen after he left office. I wonder, once he was out of power, did he look at where Putin was taking the country and realise he'd made a dreadful decision in making him his Prime Minister, and therefore his successor? We'll never know.

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But there are actually people left who sincerely believe that Yeltsin is an independent fighter for democracy. 🥀

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great info
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Thanks from Rotterdamn man.

Anarcho capitalism is not democracy

Very accurate. It is little known knowledge that many of the people in the republics actually willed for the union to stay together (albeit, in a different form).

Great video. I’ve seen a dozen on the topic and this is the best one.

Khasbulatov was the brains behind Rutskoy.

democracy died when the USSR disbanded

Yeltsin, and you just prove why militias and second amendment are justified.

predoski niet da bylattleship!

having said that - democracy wasn't ever going to be real in russia in the 90's cuz the west would always press hard to corrupt it on an ancestral basis.

You don't seem to realize large amounts of Trotskyist migrated to USA when Stalin won and held a grudge right? you know ancestral grudges are real things even if you don't have them now?

Putin is GOD SENT!

May GOD continue looking after his safety!

I remember that day. We were visiting Moscow at the time, and we were walking out of the Nikulin circus on Tsvetnov Bulvar when we saw a column of tanks rolling down the street. I was four at the time and thought it was pretty cool, but my mom was terrified and took us straight home, where we stayed for several days until things calmed down.

Thanks! Just wondering how much Western financing and propaganda influenced these events? The West was never happier with Russia than during the protracted demise of the USSR.

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