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Collapse: How Ukrainians Destroyed the Evil Empire(2021)

Name: Collapse: How Ukrainians Destroyed the Evil Empire
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-08-27
Rating: 4.5

August 27, 20211 Season · 7 Episodes

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Overview

This 7 episode documentary is about the collapse of the USSR and the part Ukrainians took in it. The series brings the Ukrainian perspective into the global narrative for the first time, along with recently unclassified details from the CIA and KGB archives.

Created by Yaroslav Lodygin, Ірина Бубнова, Олександр Зінченко, Сергій Недзельський, Serhii Lysenko, Olha Bregman, Serhiy Mykhalchuk, Vitalii Sheremetiev

Network Suspilne Pershyi

Seasons

Miniseries

7 Episodes

2021

E01

День страху / The Day of Fear

8/27/2021

The 1st episode is about a possible scenario of violent development of the situation in Kyiv on the first day of the Emergency Situations Ministry: seizure of the Verkhovna Rada by military special forces and mass arrests of both opposition leaders and "sovereign communists". It looked like a "day of fear" from the perspective of politicians, journalists, and Ukrainians in Kyiv, Washington, and Moscow.

E02

Ніч Гніву / The Night of Anger

9/3/2021

The second episode is built around the conspiracy theory that Ukraine's declaration of independence is part of a US special services scenario.

E03

Без Ейфорії / Without Euphoria

9/10/2021

The third episode tells about the events of August 21, 1991.

E04

Дефолт / The Financial Crisis

9/17/2021

This episode is about when and why the economic collapse of the USSR actually took place.

E05

Ефект Доміно / Domino Effect

9/24/2021

The last few years before the collapse of the USSR looked like a chain reaction: events in one country of the socialist camp pushed the processes in the neighbors. The fifth episode tried to find out what exactly caused the collapse of USSR

E06

Незалежність / The Independence

10/1/2021

The sixth episode reveals what exactly happened behind the scenes of the historic session of the Verkhovna Rada, where the "Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine" was adopted.

E07

На Межі Ядерної Катастрофи / On the Verge of a Nuclear Disaster

10/8/2021

In the fall of 1991, Moscow newspapers reported that Yeltsin had discussed with the military the possibility of a nuclear bombing of Kyiv. Did this mean that the CIA's June forecast could come true in October-November 1991? Was a nuclear apocalypse possible in the scenario described by the CIA? Could Ukraine have become a communist reserve? Why did Ukrainians go to the polls en masse to "kill the USSR"? Why did Poland and Canada hold races to be the first to recognize independence, while the United States set tough conditions for Kyiv? How did Kravchuk beat both Moscow and Washington? Who really ruined the USSR?

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