Fall of the Soviet Union event
also: collapse of the communist boogeyman, fall of the USSR
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Soviet Unioncountry · 3Operation Gladiooperation · 1Afghanistancountry · 1Polandcountry · 1Zbigniew Brzezinskiperson · 1Romaniacountry · 1Vladimir Putinperson · 1Eastern Soviet Unionplace · 1Czechoslovakiacountry · 1Boliviacountry · 1Hungarycountry · 1Brusselsplace · 1Langleyplace · 1Richard Hornperson · 1Directorate of Operationsorganization · 1William Websterperson · 1Jeff Bezosperson · 1D.E. Shaw and Companyorganization · 1Jeff Bezos promotion to Senior VPevent · 1Ronald Reaganperson · 1Richard Stolzperson · 1
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Fall of the Soviet Union book_quoted
“began tearing down the wall. These events excited everybody in Washington and the CIA. President Bush said in his Oval Office meeting with Brent Scrocoff that they turned on the television immediately and watched the entire thing. At Langle…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 37:00
Mentions (8)
▶ 1:52:19
Soviet Union in 1991 and the collapse of the communist boogeyman, which they had used in phase one of this Gladio operation as a club in order to beat everybody with. And you weren't allowed to be, you know, in any way, you weren't even all…
▶ 1:08:14
and they killed the Tsar's family in the basement in the Bolshevik Revolution in 1916, which happened with the whole, you know, which was World War I kicking off and so on. And then I believe that what Q has said is that, you know, when Put…
▶ 31:38
That's Jeff Bezos being there just as the lead up into the fall of the Soviet Union. And then he moves over during the hustle period to this Shah who's creating a newly created hedge fund based on these mathematical models. And he wasn't ju…
▶ 30:23
So Webster took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and tried to defuse opposition to his changes. He was basically going to use that as an excuse. Webster and Stoltz established a group of senior officers to brainstorm st…
▶ 37:31
They had brought down the Soviet Union. They credited, of course, their success in Afghanistan for doing that. Over the next months, the communist government of Eastern Europe were swept away. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Roma…
▶ 1:30:15
which heralded the end of the Cold War, as it was. And a couple of years later, I think it was 1991, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the end of the Soviet Union, right? And subsequent to that, there was a period where in the 90s, apart…
▶ 1:31:39
So, yeah, and we all know what happened then. So, okay. Yeah, we've talked about how once the Soviet Union collapsed, who had been used as a boogeyman for all of the covert actions and to propagandize Americans and other nations as well int…
▶ 1:33:06
So the military industrial complex has not really had a pause. There has been a difference in whether they're funding covert operations or overt operations. But, yeah, they hardly slow down. Ron, go ahead. Yeah, they foresaw the fall of the…