The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Every Day

See how the Soviet Union slowly crumbled from within, collapsing by the end of 1991 and slowly reforming as the Russian Federation.

[EmperorTigerstar]

For those who might wonder, the conflicts in the Caucasus such as Nagorno-Karabakh and Chechenya will get their own video. :)

[possiple]

Watching these videos as a colorblind man is a real struggle

[lightingbolt]

In case anyone is wondering, that last independent territory at the end is Tatarstan

[karthikkv]

I’m pretty sure Kazakhstan was the last to leave

[AnonymousFreakYT]

That was the year I started high school. I had the opportunity to do a study-abroad trip (3 weeks) in the Soviet Union, but my parents couldn't afford to send me. A friend did go.

They were in one of the Republics when it declared independence. Their Soviet "tour guide" quickly got them in the morning and put them on a train to Moscow. The coup attempt happened as they were on their way to Moscow. They were supposed to visit farm towns in a couple more republics (that hadn't yet declared Independence) for the remaining week of their trip, but instead were sent to Eastern Russia and stayed in one small village that had basically no connection to the outside world - they knew none of what was going on until the day they were to fly back to the US, they got on a train to Moscow, and flew directly home. Only on getting home did they find out what had happened while they were there.

[Mischek]

2:15 probably meant 1991 instead of 1990.

[facundoconte]

0:57 when you have a lot of unrest in eu4 and you increase the autonomy of your provinces

[iknowyou]

Thank you so much for such a detailed representation of USSR's collapse. It does deserve a lot of attention since not much behind the boundaries of post-soviet countries understand how messy it was for us.

[Vienna]

"What happened to the Soviet Union?"

Gorbachev and Yeltsin: Gone reduced to atoms

[hrastovlist]

"The reign of Boris Yeltsin is only remembered for His drunkenness"

[rainerm]

People died of that too. It was not peaceful

[ithinkipoopedmypants]

Someone will make "The history of the Soviet Union: Every hour"

[baptiste]

The irony is that Gorbatchev demanded a referendum in the soviet territories to ask if they wanted to maintain ussr and every country that hold it received above 70% in favor of the yes, in some cases it was even 98% like in Kazakhstan .

[GarbageHaul]

Soon Tigerstar's gonna have to start declaring wars on random nations just because he's ran out of wars to make videos on.

[mossytoucan]

If you are confused why Kazakhstan declared independence before Russia, it actually did declare independence before russia but was not recognized as nation until later.

[yez]

Anglo-Zanzibar War:
Every 30 seconeds

[thecitizenoftheinternet]

Imagine going on a little trip inside of the Soviet Union to a different republic and suddenly being unable to return home because you're in a new country now.

[ryanmcsharry]

You know the USSR dissolving was SOMEONE'S Christmas wish.

[NovaFrederick]

The end of an era.

And the start of another.

[sulpser]

A couple of details I feel I have to point out:

The first SSR to declare its sovereignty was Estonia, on 16 November 1988. Other SSR's followed suit in 1989/90.

Your description says "the Soviet Union slowly crumbled from within" and "slowly reformed as the Russian Federation". In my opinion, a collapse that took about 5 years and reforms that took even less (since 1991) is very fast. Compare it to the centuries-long crumbling of other empires, such as the Roman, Ottoman and Qing Empires.

It's still a good video overall, but I just couldn't let these details slide.