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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

Series 1

Part Two - 1989 to 1991

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC History Channel

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President Gorbachev still believes he can save communism. But there are no potatoes in Moscow. People travel to tiny villages to get food. Gorbachev's rival, Boris Yeltsin, decides communism is finished. Things get worse. Then they get much worse as the rational Communist plan runs out of control everywhere. But McDonald’s opens in Moscow. The army and the KGB realise their power is collapsing. They have to stop what is happening. Show less

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