russia will go up several hundred percent next week. life was becoming harder. consumer goods harder to find. food even hard to come by. the economic system was breaking down. in a country accustomed to shortages, people are saying they ve never had it so bad. hardliners did not like the tone of reforms introduced by gorbachev. gorbachev s reforms were meant to restore and refresh communism and save the soviet union and actually they had exactly the opposite effect. you couldn t reform this economic system. you had to throw it out. gorbachev wasn t willing or able to do that. so it was only a matter of time before the old establishment were going to try to get rid of him. his message calling for national unity has fallen on deaf ears. it s difficult for outsiders to capture the maelstrom that gorbachev was in. i remember being with him when i was traveling with president bush. he was depleted by what he had had to deal with on every level. it was a parade that was inten
war. extraordinary drama in moscow tonight. scenes of destruction, of fire, even of blood on the streets. four people died, shot or crushed by armored vehicles. speculation he s being held in moscow, 50,000 people gathered at the russian parliament building. gorbachev wasn t that popular at that point, but these people were even less popular than gorbachev. if they had mounted a coup in 1989 or early 1990, he might have fallen and the new soviet union would have been quite different. but there were already new legitimate figures that the russian people were supporting and were expecting a lot from. around 50,000 supporters of boris yeltsin gathered to chant their support for the man who is now carrying the battered banner of liberal reform. boris yeltsin had been popularly elected as president of the russian federation.
took away his nuclear codes. the military commander, the minister and the prince joined forces to mount the cue. nothing threatens mr. gorbachev. he is in a safe place. he needs some time to feel better. warn today that the white wing cue will have tragic consequences. it is the beginning of civil war. there seems to be draw may here in moscow tonight. destruction, fire and even blood on the street. four people died, crushed by armied vehicles. the speculation of gorbachev now being held in moscow. gorbachev wasn t that popular but these people were less popular. if they had mounted a coup he
life was becoming harder. consumer goods harder to find. food even hard to come by. the economic system was breaking down. in a country accustomed to shortages, people are saying they ve never had it so bad. hardliners did not like the tone of reforms introduced by gorbachev. gorbachev s reforms were meant to restore and refresh communism and save the soviet union and actually they had exactly the opposite effect. you couldn t reform this economic system. you had to throw it out. gorbachev wasn t willing or able to do that. so it was only a matter of time before the old establishment were going to try to get rid of him. mr. gorbachev s message calling for national unity has fallen on deaf ears. it s difficult for outsiders to capture the maelstrom that gorbachev was in. i remember being with him when i was traveling with president bush. he was depleted by what he had had to deal with on every level. it was a parade that was intended to celebrate a united and successful
it is the beginning of civil war. extraordinary drama in moscow tonight. scenes of destruction, of fire, even of blood on the streets. four people died, shot or crushed by armored vehicles. speculation he s being held in moscow, at least 50,000 people gathered at the russian parliament building. gorbachev wasn t that popular at that point, but these people were even les less popular than gorbachev. if they mounted a coup in 1989 or early 1990, he might have fallen and the new soviet union would have been quite different. but there were already new legitimate figures that the russian people were supporting and were expecting a lot from. around 50,000 supporters of boris yeltsin gathered to chant their support for the man who is now carrying the battered banner of liberal reform. boris yeltsin had been