In just three days, the Soviet Union collapsed not with a bang but a drunken stumble—its leaders, including a visibly intoxicated acting president, were disorganized and out of touch. Their failed coup attempt crumbled as Boris Yeltsin, free and defiant, rallied public support from atop a tank, while journalists freely filmed inside KGB offices. It was chaos, not conflict, that sealed the USSR’s fate—a messy, forgotten end to an empire already hollowed out.

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