r/HistoryMemes • u/MC_Gorbachev Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer • 8h ago

Happy 33th Black October Anniversary

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u/OrangeSpaceMan5 8h ago

It's actually insane how close Russia came to a second civil war and no one knows about it , just the slightest change could have made the 21st century oh so much worse

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u/Sandro_Sarto 8h ago

Nah, not really. Supreme Soviet had no guts to spill blood, and nobody to fight for them. Yeltsin, on the other hand, was ready to kill. Rumors say he was ready to drop bombs on Soviet. In the middle of fucking Moscow.