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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
You may not be old enough to remember how fast the world's second most powerful country that had all but singlehandedly won the second world war a few decades before fell apart, in retrospect you could see the seeds of the fall a couple of years before but at the time it seemed like it fell in a week or two, Gorbachev was arrested while on holiday on August 19th and Moscow was placed under martial law by elements of the army, Yeltsin organized the resistance in Moscow, the coup collapsed in a couple of days on the 21st, Gorbachev resigned as party leader on the 24th as it was clear Yeltsin was now in charge of Russia and Ukraine declared independence the next day, in 4 days the USSR had collapsed
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I agree. It was numerous tired actors that fell like dominos, all leaning on each other. Luck was involved but sometimes its a chain reaction like you mention that is hard to stop.