THE LAST SOVIET - EP 5: Three Hot Days in August

最后的苏联 - 第 5 集:八月的三个炎热的日子

The Last Soviet

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第 5 集

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Sergei makes the decision to stay in the space station. But a few weeks later something happens that changes everything. Mikhail Gorbachev disappears. What happens over the next 3 days will decide the future of the Soviet Union once and for all. Three days that changed the world.  Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • A cadot card for a le ho ho ho.

  • The one for all cadot cards in cad dies in the coasters.

  • August 19th, my husband and I were woken up by a telephone call.

  • It was 6:30 in the morning, it's.

  • August 1991, and Masha Lippmann had just started working for the Washington Post in Moscow.

  • I woke up, I picked up the receiver.

  • It was a friend from California.

  • And what she told me was, switch on television.

  • I said, what?

  • What are you talking about?

  • It's 6:30 here.

  • And she said, switch on television.

  • There is a political coup in Moscow.

  • There was a presenter there reading this litany of stale, recognizable communist speak.

  • President Gorbachev has stepped down.

  • He's too sick to do his duties.

  • A new political committee is now in charge of the country.

  • And I realized that, yes, indeed, something absolutely horrible was happening.

  • That after years of liberal reform under Gorbachev, a coup was underway.