basically the beginning of the demise of the soviet union that would follow later in the year dimitri barbet let's look at that time twenty years ago and how soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to chaff what about yeltsin at this time well i think there were two parallel processes going on which should not be mixed up there was the process of democratization and i think it was yeltsin storrow for the first time in russian history and man came to power almost election against the will of the government that was an achievement as for the collapse of the soviet union it had begun long before that speed. back in one thousand eight hundred nine already there was a lot of talk about it and by one thousand nine hundred pro the process was almost complete i would you mind your that you know march two months before the election. seven republics out of fifteen did not take part in the referendum on the reform of the soviet union so the process has already gone very very much warts and yeltsin of course of the sovie