There are at least two big historical events that nurture the story of the 17th James Bond film GOLDENEYE. The British betrayal of the Lienz Cossacks in 1945 directly motivates Alec Trevelyan's revenge plan, and there is also the setting of a new world order after the dissolution of the Soviet Union which serves as a backdrop as the story moves along through nine years.
However, there is a historical event most people overlook, and it is the one that directly provoked the fall of the Soviet Union. But don't worry, don't blame yourself if you didn't catch it. After all, Ourumov's electronic dossier at M's office appears onscreen for less than a second. This is an event that began on August 18, 1991, and culminated exactly 30 years ago, on August 21, 1991. This was an ill-fated attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev's government to reinstate a radicalized Soviet government in a USSR that was beginning to embrace glasnost (openness) policies towards the West.
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