Thank God that could never happen here...Gorbachev: "a crime and a coup" killed the USSR in 1991

[Miles Archer]

Treachery killed USSR, Russia's Gorbachev tells BBC
13 December 2016 Last updated at 03:01 GMT

Ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 was "a crime and a coup".

In a rare interview marking 25 years since the demise of the Soviet Union, he told the BBC's Steve Rosenberg he resigned to avoid a bloody civil war.

But today the West was "provoking Russia" and trying to undermine President Vladimir Putin, he said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38294498

[FarCenter]

1. A civil war might have killed a few hundred thousand; economic collapse killed millions

A civil war that preserved government authority and prevented economic collapse would very likely have been the more humane course of action.

Letting all those WW II veterans starve to death in the cold received a lot less Western media attention.