Only because literally almost everything bad about the USSR is CIA propaganda or old Nazi propaganda and every single revolution against a socialist is 100% a CIA op. You are truly underestimating the sheer amount of power and influence the CIA wields and how often it has wielded it to crush Communism.
Nah it was more like at a 2 and the CIA turned it up to 11. Pretty weird that over 90% of people from the Soviet States said in a poll that they wanted to stay in the Union in 1991.