Central continuity Christmas Day 1991 - ITN report on Gorbachev resignation and Soviet Union split

Some Central continuity from Christmas Day 1991, followed by an ITN news report of President Gorbachev's resignation and the subsequent dissolution of the former Soviet Union.

Many thanks to RobinCarmody for putting a date to this clip

(C) GRANADA MEDIA GROUP/ITVplc 1991

Apologies for the picture quality.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Central
• continuity
• December
• 25th
• 1991
• President
• Gorbachev
• resignation
• Soviet
• Union
• split
• dissolution

[RedOctober1922]

"Soviet Empire" lol please, that doesnt even make sense, one cannot be a republic and an empire

[AidanLunn]

@RedOctober1922 Definition of empire: "A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority". Nothing to do with a royal family at all, so I don't see how an empire can't be both a republic and an empire.

[KGBsovietpride]

fuck you gorbachov 

[623058]

@RobinCarmody Thames, TVS, TSW was one group and everyone else did as above :P

[RedOctober1922]

@AidanLunn By definition I guess they can be, but for the most part, empires have not given suffrage to territories they have aquired, and thats not republican

[RobinCarmody]

Of course, on Christmas Day 1991 there were actually regional variations in peaktime - Central and a number of other regions showed the premiere of Crocodile Dundee II from 8-10, and Minder at 10.15, as here, but Thames and some others, including Yorkshire, showed Minder from 8-9 and rather than the premiering film, took a rerun of Top Gun either side of the news. Presumably a demoralised Thames, no longer at the network's top table, were annoyed at the late scheduling of Minder.