BBC - Russia 1985-1999 TraumaZone (2022) Part 2 1989 to 1991

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

Part 2 1989 to 1991

President Gorbachev still believes he can save communism. But there are no potatoes in Moscow. People travel to tiny villages to get food. Gorbachev's rival, Boris Yeltsin, decides communism is finished. Things get worse. Then they get much worse as the rational Communist plan runs out of control everywhere. But McDonald's opens in Moscow. The army and the KGB realise their power is collapsing. They have to stop what is happening.

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