Nine years ago, on August 24, 2011, as Ukraine celebrated its 20th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union, the Eurasia Daily Monitor analyzed the failed putsch of August 1991 that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 2011, there was a lack of knowledge about the failed putsch among many Russians. Moscow News (Moskovskie Novosti) reported that 8 percent of those surveyed did not know anything about the coup, 27 percent said that they had heard something, while 64 percent remember and know something about those events.