You’re one of the few who recognize this.
I remember that day, watching the live reports come in.
Struck me that the real reason was government could not issue paychecks for lack of funds. No pay, no workers, no bureaucrats, no government.
At that time, we had a large satellite dish. Much live news was on unscrambled pool feeds with no sound or captions. By total accident, we surfed onto the feed for for the USSR.
We saw large, burly men in their 50s methodically building barricades out of broken concrete and small cars. Several of them would surround a car and lift it into place along a pile of rubble and assorted machinery odds and ends. In every back pocket and sometimes in every hand, were clear glass bottles filled with yellowish liquid that had rags stuck in them. These were being taken somewhere and stashed, because we would see the same men passing again in front of the camera, first empty-handed and then with more bottles. No one was smiling. Everyone seemed to know exactly what they were doing. Had this been America, I would have identified these men as union thugs.
It was fascinating and educational.