THE LAST SOVIET - EP 5: Three Hot Days in August
Ridiculous History
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🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Sergei makes the decision to stay in the space station. But a few weeks later something happens that changes everything. Mikhail Gorbachev disappears. What happens over the next 3 days will decide the future of the Soviet Union once and for all. Three days that changed the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard. |
| 0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
| 0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
| 0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi. |
| 0:41.0 | August 19, my husband and I were woken up by a telephone call. |
| 0:48.0 | It was 6.30 in the morning. |
| 0:50.0 | It's August 1991 and Masha Lippman had just started working for the Washington Post in Moscow. |
| 0:56.0 | I woke up, I picked up the receiver. |
| 0:59.0 | He was a friend from California. |
| 1:02.0 | And what she told me was switch on television. |
| 1:06.0 | I said, what are you talking about? |
| 1:08.0 | It's 6.30 here and she said switch on television. |
| 1:12.0 | There is a political coup in Moscow. |
| 1:17.0 | There was a presenter there reading this litany of stale, recognizable communist speak. |
| 1:30.0 | President Gorbachev has stepped down. |
| 1:32.0 | He's too sick to do his duties. |
| 1:34.0 | A new political committee is now in charge of the country. |
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