The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. The documentary looks at the historic moments and central figures that are key to understanding the collapse of the world’s largest and seemingly unshakable country. Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Kravchuk, Stanislav Shushkevich and others recollect the final years of the USSR. The dramatic events that took place on August 18-21, 1991, resulted in a coup. The August 19 coup failed. The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus later signed the Belovezha Accords that dissolved the USSR. Was it possible to prevent the Soviet Union’s collapse?
