アップロード日: 2011/09/09
This is the parade in Moscow's Red Square, devoted to the 73rd anniversary to the Great October Socialist Revolution, 7 November, 1990. The year 1990 would see a continuation of the drastic changes in the world that began in 1989. From the reunification of Germany back in October, to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait back in August (which instigated the Gulf War US lead military intervention in January 1991). The chaos which permeated throughout the Eastern bloc the previous year was spilling over into the Soviet Union. This marked a time of great instability and decline for the USSR. Perestroika (restructuring) was failing to deliver the positive promises of restructuring it announced it would when it was first implemented in 1987. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnot (Openess) policy, while positive for freedom of speech in the nation, also had the unintended consequence of opening the floodgates of long repressed nationalist feelings in many of the Union Republics. At the time of this parade many secessionist movements were taking place, and the mood in Red Square during this parade was not one of optimism, but sombreness, as the tapestry of the USSR was being unwoven. This would be the last time the October Revolution would be commemorated before the USSR collapsed a year later. Indeed the year of 1990 would be remembered as the final year for all Soviet military parades (Victory Day, and October Revolution) on Red Square. Breaking with tradition, Mikhail Gorbachev delivers an address to the Soviet people, afterwards, the USSR national anthem plays, once finished, Minister of Defense, Marshal of The Soviet Union, Dmitriy Yazov, along with Moscow Military District Commander, Colonel General Nikolai Kalinin, begin their inspection tour of the troops. Music performed by the Moscow Military District Orchestra, directed by Major General; Nikolai Mikhailov.
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