How the internet saved Russia from the hardliners

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Uploaded by on Feb 10, 2009

How the internet saved Russia from the hardliners.

This is a clip from a 1995 program called "The Internet Show". Most of it is pretty painful to watch now, but this bit is fascinating. In 1991, a bunch of old party hardliners staged a coup while Gorbachev was on vacation. They shut down the newspapers, TV, radio, telephone system and telegraph. But they didn't know about the Internet and Relcom's 56k dedicated line to Finland. Yeltsen could communicate to the West and had more information than the hardliners.

Category: News & Politics
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internet history yeltsen gorbachev relcom demos.su kremvax anti-communist coup Happy Rhodes T-Shirt

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