On August 19th, 1991, Tchaikovskys Swan Lake ballet was broadcast on all Soviet state TV channels on a loop as confused citiz

On August 19th, 1991, Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” ballet was broadcast on all Soviet state TV channels on a loop as confused citizens anxiously waited for any news, while trying to make sense of what was happening in Moscow as tanks rolled through the city streets. This is the broadcast of the first executive order of the State Committee on the State of Emergency (SCSE) in the USSR, in which the plan for going forward was presented. Listen now, more than 30 years later, to what it was that these “insurrectionists” wanted to achieve with their desperate move. As we all know, the August coup d’état failed, its participants were arrested, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Here’s a testimony of general Alexander Rutskoy, who was a direct participant of those events. Source: Putinger’s Cat / Кот Путингера