Jamison Firestone

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299 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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He didn't get to see the book, which is unfortunate.

I think he would have liked it.

Right.

So we had kind of two revolutions, almost one after another.

So when I got off the plane, it was still the Soviet Union.

And a lot of people in the government didn't like what Gorbachev was doing.

So they kidnapped him and they rolled in the tanks and they said, this is over.

And all of a sudden, all these people came out on the streets.

And they kind of surrounded the tanks and they surrounded Yeltsin's office building.

And they were yelling at these 20-year-old kids in the tanks.

I mean, it was like grandmothers, babushki, right?

Yelling at them, we're your mothers, we're your grandmothers.

You're not going to kill us, are you?

And these like 19, 20-year-old kids in the tanks, they were miserable and they were like, no.

And so Yeltsin stood up against on top of the tank and he demanded Gorbachev's return and the coup fell apart.

Tanks rolled out of town and people felt this,

euphoria.

They couldn't believe that Soviet tanks had backed down to them.

I mean, even to the point where people were painting, forgive me, on statues of Karl Marx.

And Yeltsin became the hero at that point.

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