and returned to moscow but the soviet union would never see all of the new. state committee for the state of emergency people all they knew they wanted to do was stop whatever was happening in its tracks but they didn't have an alternative vision they didn't have really anything else to propose in its place other than the status quo ante let's go back where we had before nonstarter couldn't go anywhere got no traction in society at all and the second thing was simple planning bad planning ironically instead of curbing more of a child's performance project and reinvigorating the power of the communist party the coup plotters he sent their own political to mice real political power shifted to yeltsin who quickly moved to ban the party and a few months later the soviet union ceased to exist much attorney for cross-town r.t. . if i go to you first century local go international later twenty years ago there was this coup what does it mean now twenty years after the fact there's a brand new russia it's unrecognizable from what happened twenty years ago when you tea

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hardliners attempted to overthrow then soviet president mikhail gorbachev and stop his reforms next our guest on cross talked about whether the soviet union could have survived if the coup succeeded. and if you. start. to. follow in the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the coup that failed but changed everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to derail me help out of a child's efforts to reform the soviet union in the coups aftermath the communist party was banned to be followed by the end of the u.s.s.r. could history have played out differently. and you can. start. to cross-talk the events of august one thousand nine hundred one i'm joined by geoffrey hosking in london he is america's professor of russian history at the university college london in oxford we have archie brown he's america's professor of politics at the university of oxford and indeed we know the old we go to nicholai petro he is professor of politics at the university of rhode island all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a l

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thousands of captive pows found themselves in soviet camps soon afterwards to soviet repression machinejettison that unnecessary and burdensome ballast the father of a now and polish film director and jay fido was among the polls shot by barry as man. that i me i'm like my father most of those taken prisoner were not career offices rather they represented the polish intelligentsia. they were university professors high school teachers actors and artists some of them. in short all those who had been drawn to them to the army in one thousand nine hundred thirty nine you don't. get another project thought up by beria so the seeds of an interest in a conflict between georgians and it has eons in the caucasus on his orders hundreds of families were forcibly moved from georgia to pass here and in one thousand thirties and forties following the devastation caused by mass repressions there that triggered the erosion and simulation of the uprising in population. the houses that were built under the projects have survived an op has he is rural areas to this day but nobody lives there now. not old

soviet leaders were fond of vacationing and. up has he is leader nestor introduced the young hopeful beriah to his old friends. the two met here in one nine hundred thirty one by that time barry had already shown his worth by working in local state security agencies. mary wrote a letter to the lady he ordered this and all the letters to be found and destroyed in their letter mary as put in a word for him so that the medium those letters of survived i've seen them all. stalin took note of the young activist soon after the burial was appointed head of the georgian communist party. immediately began planting loyalists in camp posts as for the man who had introduced him to stalin beria now considered him a nuisance. in december nine hundred thirty six barry invited nestor like oh but to dinner a few hours later suddenly felt sick. everybody in our pas you knew that he had been people know to date doctors who say it is much. more eliminated there and then. body was taken from the georgian capital to a panacea where it was given a sta

and the entire repression machine of the soviet union. many episodes of his life and the circumstances of his death are still couched in mystery. this army bunker in central moscow is more than ten meters underground. beriah found himself here soon after his arrest in the kremlin there was no chance of escape or help from the outside. area was interrogated by none other than the soviet union's prosecutor general. one of the initial charges put against him was force participation in widespread political repression. this list contains the names of thirty six people in vere's your instruction jurist everybody there is also an old saying first category which means education. i confess that all those resolutions were approved by myself in person. of the buriat case would fill a couple of such chills. here you can find records of interrogations and. for some reason most of these materials have not yet been declassified the beria case is a peculiar one there are no fingerprints to be found normally prisoners have their pictures taken from the fr

this street still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal that the soviet files on. hungary for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice things to face with the news makers. if you. want to. welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the events of august ninety nine you want. to take. a nickel if i can go to you i mean archie brown brought up a very interesting point before we went to the break about we got about got a bunch of plans to split up the communist party into competing factions me but isn't that still kind of a an old style mentality reform from the top down i mean because we saw during the coup a lot of spontaneous spontaneity and where people are saying no we're not going to go back to the old days and actually you know civil society became very very fertile with ideas ok i mean got a bunch of by then was already out of step with the changes in society. i tend to tend to agree with that point of view that you just articulated. i think. if good bye to of had somehow managed to push through his ver

bring about the end of the soviet union. and swimmers in russia's far east brit to buy and tear off the people with savage five shocks in two days attacks that have never been seen before and not reach him .

twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempt to do real me hoping to shelter for reform the soviet union. marvin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture of. the earth. play. live. live live. live nation free liquidations free the storage charges free from a challenge the free. three stooges free. moseley braun to live video for your media project for free media and dollars r t dot com. you can. live. live. below and welcome across top i'm peter lavelle the food that failed but changed everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to derail me help out of a child's efforts to reform the soviet union in the coups aftermath the communist party was banned to be followed by the end of the u.s.s.r. could history of played out different. lives can. start listening. to cross talk the events of august nine hundred ninety one i'm joined by geoffrey hosking in london he is america's professor of russian history at the university college london in oxford we have archie brown he's america's professor of politics at the university of oxfo

overseeing the development of the soviet atomic bomb. beria to coordinate the cooperation between soviet spies hunting out scientific information in the west and the u.s.s.r. as nuclear physicists only a few people knew about areas task. it used to be an ideal place for a holiday good old changed in a moment i. i. i. know the winds of war are still visible. the republic is not only relieved but also shaping the future. of the. new the latest in science and technology from around. we've. covered. the secret military facilities twenty one was built under various watchful. initial preparations for secret tests got underway by the summer of one thousand nine hundred. forty nine. the aim was to achieve nuclear parity as soon as possible with the united states which already had the ball. to be really had to meet the deadline if you don't need a deadline they told us you'll wish you were dead. on august twenty nine thousand nine hundred forty nine up a semi pilot in sc test site in kazakstan the command bunker gave the order to set it off. the

the soviet political officer from the soviet mission walked around the tank and said we have lots of tanks too, which i think we all knew. and lo and behold a couple hours later, 10 tanks appeared at the checkpoint. but then we knew the soviets had taken over the checkpoint. he had not let east german handle this. they wanted to bring the soviet tanks out. so he does instructed the tanks, our tanks, to go up to the line dividing east and west berlin which is a white line painted across it. when they did that, the soviet tanks rumbled out of their parking lot and faced the american tanks, about 10 or 12 feet away with their guns pointed at each other. at that point, we relaxed in the american operations center. we knew that the soviets were not going to start anything and we knew that we were okay. clay had gotten what he wanted. and it spoke of impending war. they said here's the americans and the soviets are facing each other. they are shooting each other and they're going to shoot each other and this is a very dangerous moment. and several of the other white house advisors said to

there is no chance of the state being revived in the form of the soviet union. mikhail gorbachev has never returned to summer residence since august one thousand nine hundred one now it's the property of the ukrainian state however top officials rarely vacation and. the former k.g.b. colonel tolstoy makes no secret of the fact that even now he has no right to talk about some aspects of what happened then. crimean residents still harbors many secrets relating to those three days in one nine hundred ninety one only when new information has been take us to fight live be able to shed light on. the figure to be frank this place is not considered to be a very look at ole that's what that's really like. that. is a myth this is the officer on duty august twenty second one thousand nine hundred ninety five am boris yeltsin declares and there reactionary coup has failed and thanks to defenders of the white house twelve pm for the first sign the three colored flag is raised over the supreme council of russia. held said held for. only five months or left before the collapse

asked the soviet president to recognize the legality of the coup. we knew what we were going through today and unite told him all that acute somehow befitting to state of emergency and gorbachev retorted whites claiming that a state of emergency was dancer green machine guns and blood in its wake at the core or even i realized that other people as well as my family would suffer no doubt blood would be spilled certainly in such a vast country as out as this country takes time to get worked up when it does you can hardly stop at my belief is the country's modernization without blood. august nineteenth one thousand nine hundred one must go his eleven am i cried halt armored personnel carriers heading for the city center demonstrators climb one of them chanting no to fascism. hundreds of people gather womanish square in central moscow they are ready to oppose the so-called state committee on the state to the nation see people who met each other back then drink to still keep in touch and remember those events. hello hello hello brothers i'd seen in a hun

only five months or left before the collapse of the soviet union. home.

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