I've seen 3 installments so far
I took a look, it's going somehow, but it's not going smoothly, like some bad wine.
It should be watched chronologically, one hour at a time, there is no particular point in watching everything at once.
You let go a little, you see some sad scenes of socialist realist disintegration, you realize where they ended up.
Then a wave of changes starts, the burning of effigies of soldiers in Lithuania, the response in the form of trampling on civilians, white shrouds on the shot people.
Strikes by miners, workers, empty warehouses, useless factories that produce unnecessary products, state taxi drivers who are not allowed to drive.
Peasants who are barely surviving in the middle of nowhere, where even the last shops are closing, there are no cigars and they don't even have the money to buy them.
In response to the crisis comes democracy led by Yeltsin, who has a mandate from some kind of election and simply abolishes the USSR.
The crowd that marched on the KGB building is watching the circus show of taking down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky with cranes instead of entering the Lubyanka and combing through the KGB's wrongdoings. Cranes sent by Yeltsin as a distraction.
Gorbachev cries in his room when he is told that the USSR has fallen.
I haven't reached the collapse of democracy yet, I'm just going through the collapse of communism.
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