 Welcome back to the breakfast on plus TV Africa and now let's go back in history to the year 1991 It's really a discussion about the Soviet Union and a guy called goba chev The Soviet Union first of all existed from 1922 to 1991 a lot of us were still kids when the Soviet Union eventually Broke apart, you know, but it was on this day that goba chev was a cool rather it was attempted at Goba chev himself he basically Had been in charge of the Soviet Union for a couple of years, but on this day in 1991 he was placed on the house arrest during a call by high-ranking members of his own government Since becoming leader of the Soviet Union in 1988 he had pursued comprehensive reforms to try to push the Soviet Union and make it a world power, you know, and of course had had negotiations with the United States and other countries at that time, but unfortunately for him Goba chev there was a lot of people in his government who didn't agree with his reforms There's a lot of people in his government who didn't think that he was moving fast enough I was doing the right things make our goba chev is his name and that includes Russian leader then Boris Yeltsin I remember that name very very well And so on this day while he was at his resort He was placed on the house arrest by members of his own government including the KGB and his vice president attempted to take over power But that failed after Boris Yeltsin who was a Russian leader at that time You know came out and of course called on Russians and other members of this army to you know protest and you know going against the coup Bear in mind that Boris Yeltsin was one of those who criticized Mikhail Goba chev and his attack of leadership But Boris Yeltsin was also the person who stood against the coup on this day in 1991 and so eventually the Coup plotters gave up after three days of keeping Mikhail Goba chev on the house arrest They gave up and the coup failed He then took over power and a couple of months later Dissolved the Communist Party because the incidents on this day and the next three days dealt a huge blow to his party He resigned and eventually also then or the rather dissolve the Communist Party and then eventually resigned in 1990 In 1990 December actually Not long after that the Soviet Union collapsed Well, this story really is very significant when you talk about the history of the Soviet Union Good that you know the coup attempt was poorly planned You know when you listen to historians talk about this to talk about how It was a very disorganized coup process or coup plots and how they spent most of the time bickering amongst themselves drinking away So, I mean just about three days before it started I mean the coup the coup plots failed Three days after it started Gova chev's days were even numbered because we know that he didn't stay long there And we saw the collapse of the Soviet Union But that was what happened today in history August 18th and moving on now to our next story that happened today in history It was like I mentioned 121 days or 121 years ago That was in 1921 and 1920 on August 18th What happened in this same history was that we saw a vote from a 21 year old a 24 year old Who was influenced by his mother? I mean that's what historians say that this guy got past the notes by his mom Encouraging him to go ahead and vote in favor of the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution so he received this note and he changed his mind and it was that one vote that changed the words that for the United States citizens and When this became amended the ratification of the 19th amendment of the United States Constitution it meant that women now had a right to vote because that really was born of contention so eventually Was a proclamation that women had the right to vote and that they could no longer be subjected to public critical regard in that and that really Takes us all the way to what we've seen now in the United States Everybody has a right to vote. It's something that we've seen across the world right now And you won't even be able to imagine that there was a time in our history where women couldn't speak up in public Women didn't have a say, you know imagine even having a female uncle I mean back then really was something that was quite unimaginable What was great to know that there was this one, you know votes in the United States back in the year 1920 That really changed the cause of history for the United States and her constitution Sadly Afghanistan seems to be going back to 1920 or prior to 1920 from the reports that we're seeing In the news and that's maybe the saddest part of the you know the last actually the saddest part of August You know, you know across the whole world the events in Afghanistan. I saw video yesterday of a CNN anchor asking the Taliban or some Taliban members, you know If the rights of women will be protected if they will be allowed to vote if they will be allowed to work You know, and they laughed it off. Basically saying she must be kidding, you know, if that's what's expected and that's very different from the Political, you know statements that have been made on behalf of the Taliban that claimed that oh you know Everybody will be respected nobody needs to leave Afghanistan woman's right to be protected on some of all of that But you know in the real sense of what very likely would play out, you know, it's very very different Yeah, and it's funny that we actually see parallels regarding the two stories I talked about today in history two very different events to what's actually happening in Afghanistan Because obviously we saw the Soviet headliners, you know going with the coup against Kubochev and the Soviet Union collapse That's you know, if you could also see the Taliban took over and you know It seems that the Afghanistan as we knew it has collapsed because what we have now is Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan But that's what happened today in history August the eighth And we'll take a break here and we'll return with our first major conversation. 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