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from the supreme soviet building. comes to visit son's grave. only seventeen. three the official says he was killed. i asked the prosecutor's office for my son's clothes to see where he was wounded they didn't give them to me and destroyed them before the investigation was completed. college student was a supporter of the president of the legislative assembly he simply went to the white house with a friend to see what was going on on the eve of his death. with his mother. he said why don't she won't. why is it that you vote for father instead of him i want to vote for myself that's why i'm going there to find out who is right and who

is wrong i want to decide my country's fate. would never see the final moments of confrontation between russia's parliament president. yeltsin who controls tanks divisions would give the order to fire directly at the parliament building which pounding the offices of the supreme soviet chairman and the vice president who sided with the deputies. the people watching from the very bridge welcome each shot with applause that's the kind of people we are. and claps your blood your. tank shells were fired at the supreme soviet. they had once been yeltsin's colleagues. nine hundred ninety one there was a communist coup to prevent the collapse of the soviet union. but the russian president yeltsin and his followers took refuge in the supremes building. that battle and the white house survived. two years later and those

same deputies found themselves on opposite sides. a lot of yeltsin supporters had second thoughts. if in one thousand nine hundred one i had been the only one in parliament against the collapse of the soviet union and against the ratification of the necessary agreements in one thousand nine hundred three most of the deputies shared the same view. the u.s.s.r. collapse led to a tough ordeal for many people t.v. footage of endless queues and empty shops remain a timeless image. themselves away below the poverty line. the old economic system crashed overnight. among those who supported such as then prime minister. there were calls for radical reform.

yeltsin was aware that the soviet union's bankruptcy and lack of currency to buy graeme had resulted in an economic disaster. it put him in a tough situation that had to be dealt with. with a nod as minutes. in april nine hundred ninety three the people of russia voted in a referendum on supporting the president and his reform program. almost fifty nine percent back to elsa however each side of the political conflict interpreted those results and it's a way. would be if the boomer. there was a moment when an agreement could have been reached but then roots korean has a lot of said that only drug addicts and drunkards voted for yeltsin and things spun out of control again for your home in the north there are many of us feel we did it russian citizens have seen what the deputies that they had chosen are really occupied with the same faces behind the microphones saying the same things calling

for an overthrow. deputies began to block all of the president's initiatives. economist roselyn says but a lot of then supreme soviet speak openly claims that the president was behind each and every economic and social disaster. pretty cute and these disagreements took root above all in his expansionist standishes expired in his longing for a dictatorial power and tyranny. and economic reform only exacerbated these disagreements. in the last days before the cry. even. president.

we were parliament deputies who decided that at the next conference that they would vote to initiate yeltsin's impeachment. in addition eagleton learned that many weapons were being gathered in parliament it became obvious that there was no other way to resolve the situation so would you from this day forward the supremes soviet of the russian federation and its deputies discontinued their legislative administrative and executive functions. deputies responded with a decree removing him from the presidency. vice president alexander it's going was appointed as the country's new. and ignored parliament and surrounded the white house with. eventually society split in two. and for the political crisis the other called on the supreme soviet to resign voluntarily.

wilson won the elections what happened in one thousand nine hundred three was two groups fighting for power we voted for yeltsin in the referendum deputies of the supreme soviet didn't appeal to us at all we had to support yeltsin otherwise it would have been civil war legal the government didn't want a communist rally in central moscow many of these people who supported the supremes serviette were convinced that yeltsin's resignation would make it possible to reinstate the fall of the soviet union and put an end to poverty. slogans which ended outside the walls of the white house. came to new ten soviet power above all else parliament that had been elected at that moment the parliament of the supreme soviet of russia. patriarch alexei to seconds took on the role of intermediary in those early days of confrontation. were conducted at the patriarchs residence.

church minister suggested a zero sum option to both sides boris yeltsin would agree to retract decree fourteen hundred which effectively dismissed the parliament while the deputies would revoke the president's impeachment. the negotiations were not easy. they started it with each side call only other our enemy and our. i begged them to stop talking like that because the purpose of the meeting was to find a way out of the crisis that had engulfed our country. now. he's on trial. for nine hundred ninety three of supreme soviet supporters broke through the police cordon wielding clubs. the police responded to get us this clash brought about the first injuries and spilled the first blood in this

turbulent time. the patriots negotiations were cut short. from the very first moments of conflict a startling fieri began to emerge that the fighting between the opposing supreme soviet supporters was being inflamed by a mysterious force. over there and ski lane just to the right there's a nine story building i noticed that standing on its roof was a man in civilian clothes holding a sniper rifle. i saw him aiming it although i didn't see him fire it i tried to take a picture of him but at that exact moment i was wounded. meanwhile vice president gives the order to storm city whole directly in front of moscow's white house with the words find and punish the snipers.

broke through the court what fools. to take the building it's not going anywhere the goal is to grab the rats hiding within they managed to escape through the hotel adjacent to the white house. in just a few moments city hall is. the operation is commanded by general. the communist. television connections off. drags out. under the. group of white house defenders. to. the chiefs of the military units who are in. no need for negotiations or. move. to control the

broadcast network by occupying the government run t.v. . transport is readily at hand trucks with full fuel tanks captured from the police . special forces under yeltsin's control. was given an order on this staircase hide behind the second floor and secure the building until the end the position that the soldiers were forced to take up puts them at a tactical disadvantage but there was no other choice. you could only shoot from this position which left your chest completely exposed. if you were on your knees you couldn't see anything so we would just sort of bend over. the people they were afraid to see right away. they gave us about three minutes to make a decision. general t.v.

camera. that's offices refused to obey the rally broke out at the entrance to the t.v. set with more and more people joining in every minute the majority had no idea that special forces soldiers had guns trained on the crowd. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images called world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today.

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alexei but so far has no difficulty finding bullet holes at the television center. he came to a stunt gone up with a group of supremes soviet supporters it still remains unclear how a column of people was able to march so easily across the whole of moscow. do you believe i'm not the one to judge who was right and who was wrong just that my first duty is a reporter is to document the event to commenting on it isn't my job but the fact is that at this very spot they were shooting at me and not only me that's for sure there will be at the beach. as around eight o'clock the for. first attempts to break into the t.v. . they used trophy police trucks special forces soldiers who were holding

inside remained silent provoking the attacking mob. but would let me shoot the radio coming. in the reply was. sort of come on we were given. people here were already on edge afraid of those coming in. and there we were sitting around like. in this. from the officers who had been guarding city hall. according to the special forces version of events. as a result. was fatally injured. the elite soldiers opened fire indiscriminately. and one of the main entrance was

literally. fell flat to the ground hiding behind the flower bed and crawled along this direction so that it would keep me out of sight of those firing from the t.v. . there was one man who called out to the special forces. i'm dragging an injured man away don't interfere. back to the officers there was a burst of gunfire and he dropped. the investigation. took a long time but special forces eventually conceded that their story about the first

coming from the assailants was false. test of the grenade launcher and visited the internal military training ground and. all of them told us point blank that the grenade launcher was not fired inside the television center but in that office or sydney coffs death has no relation to it. still nevertheless the majority of muscovites who took to the streets that night in support of yeltsin were convinced that the slaughter had been unleashed by supremes serviette followers i made another rally they called for people to take up arms and defend democracy similar appeals were heard on t.v. as a result after the rally people really went to the white house the next morning and some of them died there after being shot by their own government troops. this is how the square in front of the white house looked at dawn on the fourth of october one thousand nine hundred ninety three many of these people have little more than

an hour to live soon after six o'clock in the morning the barricades would be torn down by yeltsin's forces. the first victims of that horrible day lay here. i saw them from the window of the supreme soviet building they were two young guys who had been shot beside a shallow trench. i think was probably the most depressing. of the white house looked on the fourth of. the rooftops of. discriminately. a journalist. was never able to finish his reporter.

apparently. well sutton it was a geisha and we used to be the cool people like me to people who would go into it just it was the instinct of the death of people but i feel for the germans. because they would possess. him in the stuff which was conducted there. for twenty years it has been claimed in the communist press that the snipers were professional soldiers of fortune who came to russia at the invitation of the president's security service. the accusation is strongly denied by yeltsin's followers. there was no third force whatsoever. please talk about tall and broad shoulders

israeli soldiers is nothing more than fantasy. yet he believe in go as far as to say that i was seen in moscow on the fourth of october meeting them a chief ski railway station or it's a pack of lies above i was at yeltsin side until the end of the. these pictures went all around the world tanks on the moscow river embankment firing directly at the supreme soviet building. at this moment former vice president troops going appeals from inside the white house for the military to rescue the besieged deputy. prime minister you hear me take off my back here save the dying people. i had to say something in their defense so they lied that they had used blank or wooden shells. but the building was burning. how much time it took to restore it.

black shells cause such damage on the. deputies get together in the conference hall on the fifth floor whether or no windows as they hold their last session it becomes perfectly clear that the army will not back the supreme soviet room as soon circulated that yeltsin had. security. the safety was. a secret unofficial request we were told to given the chance to do them both and instead of arresting them. we didn't get a chance there was just too many witnesses who. were saved by members of the counterterrorism unit which had once been under k.g.b.

control. to working in political hot spots along the borders of the former u.s.s.r. now they were called upon to stop a civil war at home in the capital. in the afternoon. again negotiations with the deputies inside the white house. down and started waving our arms asking them to cease fire. shirts are lieutenant colonel is going to talk to. soldiers made their way to the fifth floor to talk to the deputies many of whom were preparing to die. we told word score we could get the deputies out through the security card or put them on buses and drive them to the nearest metro station. he asked whether we could take him to the american embassy we told him that it was possible but that we had to consult our

superiors first. after sorting everything out i had to report to my chiefs i pressed the button on the radio suddenly heard random shooting and screaming but i couldn't understand what was happening and switch the radio off immediately to avoid panic. during these few seconds an unknown sniper shoots. trying to carry away from the kill zone but the intended provocation failed. before someone did this conflict to go on. to react to the provocation but it lead to nothing after all we're not mere soldiers we're officers we all understand what's going on and it's impossible to provoke us into improper action.

taken into safety. detention. what i was absolutely sure they would kill me my sole concern was to put on a good show for the cameras and prove that my deputies morale was still high. ordinary deputies were freezing go home after being released from the white house those who tried to get to the metro station through it jason the yards though had one more humiliation to enjoy. deputies were led out of the store room of this shop it looked different back then the police recognized me separated me from the crowd and pushed me over to that doorway i mean you know we were over the radio they received an order to do away with me those few minutes were terrible but luckily the walls are made of concrete they were afraid the bullets would

british. investigators never did discover who ordered people to be shot nor the identities of the mystery sniper you know only nine hundred ninety four a new parliament was established in russia the state duma granted amnesty to those involved in the events of october nine hundred ninety three criminal investigation was shut down to the dismay of many. whether the state leaders like did or not a lot of the authorities actions that came to light during the investigation should have been deemed nothing less than criminal offenses. it was a hard period. we had to live through it regular folks as well as the leaders of the country and the president we had to go through it. when the confrontation was finally over some celebrated victory while others spent

all day and night searching for their loved ones bodies. more than one hundred twenty people lost their lives. only on the fifth day. the tragedy. able to identify. people were crying the other end was the same they were looking for their relative . i said i don't want to live anymore. i'm dead anyway i have nothing to live for. and. until now. conflicting and inconsistent accounts of the events of nine hundred ninety three alexei has already formed his own vision of those events during his childhood. just like when this photo was taken. movie they look very much alike

it's just that my first time a shot but that gaze life continues and i like say it's all three it's a pity i never saw my brother though i was born after he died of a can't forget things like that they remain in your memory forever they were the people always remember. less than six months after the crisis of october one thousand nine hundred three russia saw a new constitution installed. as a result of the president's palace where expanded considerably. the post of vice president was abolished while deputies authority was significantly cut tailed. the moscow white house was repaired in record time and surrounded by a toll fence. nearby is an open air memorial where relatives of the dead visit this avenue of remembrance. despite their determination never to forget much of what took place here twenty years ago still remains

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