Minaev filmed this episode of History Lessons together with the editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy Alexey Venediktov, who witnessed the events and spoke with the participants of the Putsch personally. Often, all the stories about the August Putsch of 1991 boil down to the fact that the State Emergency Committee appeared out of nowhere, some incomprehensible old men came and staged a coup d'etat, but Boris Yeltsin, supported by the people, defended the country and did not allow the government to be overthrown. At the same time, Yeltsin was not in power, but Gorbachev was still in power, and it becomes completely unclear who was supporting whom. In this episode, Sergey Minaev and Alexey Venediktov will tell: How did the August Putsch of 1991 take place? How was the storming of the White House prepared? About the confrontation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, Yeltsin's wait and see and the State Emergency Committee. And also about the reasons for the collapse of the USSR. History has a way of repeating itself and it so happened that the episode was aired on the days when protests, strikes and peaceful rallies of thousands were taking place in Minsk and all over Belarus. People are demanding justice, freedom and fair elections, just like during the 1991 Coup in Moscow, when people, tired of the Soviet Union, wanted change. Episode content: 00:00 Why is the background to the Coup important? 00:41 What was the state of the country? 03:55 Developing a plan to introduce a state of emergency in the country 06:18 Lithuania and Latvia declared independence 08:33 Duel between Gorbachev and Yeltsin 10:58 “Two people wanted to save the Soviet Union: Gorbachev and Bush” 11:36 Rallies and strikes 17:57 Meeting between Yeltsin and Nazarbayev 19:11 Gorbachev did not dare to introduce a state of emergency and flew away on vacation 24:39 Morning of August 19 in Kherson 26:03 Morning of August 19 in Riga 27:11 Blocking the presidential dacha and the State Emergency Committee’s appeal 30:38 Bringing tanks into Moscow and “Swan Lake” 32:48 Alpha detachment surrounds Yeltsin’s dacha 35:10 Yeltsin reads out an address while standing on a tank 37:35 Confrontation between Yeltsin and GKChP 41:28 GKChP press conference and Yeltsin's interview 50:14 Planning the assault on the White House 55:35 Waiting for the assault inside the White House 01:00:24 Death of the country's first heroes: Komar, Krichevsky and Usov 01:03:17 Survey of residents on the street 01:04:25 Military inside the White House and a sleeping Rostropovich 01:10:47 Troops leave Moscow 01:12:24 GKChP group and Yeltsin's supporters fly to Gorbachev 01:16:54 Arrest of GKChP members 01:19:33 Rock on the barricades 01:20:08 Russian flag 01:20:55 Monument to Dzerzhinsky 01:24:08 Suspension of the activities of the CPSU Central Committee and the flight of communists 01:28:50 The past lost to the future For cooperation issues, write to: [email protected] Follow Minaev on social networks: Minaev on Telegram: https://t-do.ru/minaevlife Minaev LIVE on VK: https://vk.com/minaev_live Minaev LIVE on Twitter: / sergeiminaev Minaev LIVE on Odnoklassniki: https://www.ok.ru/minaevlive Minaev LIVE on Tik Tok: / minaevlive Minaev Live on Yandex Zen: https://zen.yandex.ru/sergeyminaev #putsch #Augustputsch1991 #GKChP #Gorbachev #Yeltsin #Venediktov #EchoofMoscow #SergeyMinaev