not far from the supreme soviet building. comes to visit her son's grave. was only seventeen when he died in the turmoil of october ninety ninety three the official record says he was killed by multiple bullet injuries. i asked the prosecutor's officer 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 neither the president nor 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 you have alt. 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 tank 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 welcoming shot with applause that's the kind of people we are. and claps your blood your. tank shells were fired at the supreme soviet deputies 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 supreme soviet building. and the white house survived. two years later those same deputies found themselves on opposite sides. a lot of yeltsin supporters had second thoughts. if in one thousand. 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 way below the poverty line. the old

economic system crashed overnight. among those who supported yeltsin 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 and 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 in its own way. would be the boomer me and there was a moment when an agreement could have been reached but then ruth's korean has a lot of said that only drug addicts and drunkards voted for yeltsin and things spun out of control again are you. and us feel the russian citizens have seen what

the deputies that they had chosen are really occupied with the same faces behind the microphones saying the same thing calling for an overthrow. deputies began to block all of the president's initiatives. economists roselands us 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 explored in his longing for dictatorial power and tyranny. and economic reform only exacerbated these disagreements. in the last days before the cry.

between president. boomer parliament deputies who decided that at the next conference that they would vote to initiate yeltsin's impeachment. in addition to learn 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 indeed executive functions. responded by the decree removing yeltsin from the presidency. vice president was appointed as the country's new. surround at the white house with. eventually society split in two.

and for the political crisis the other called on the supreme soviet to resign voluntarily. 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. 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 and the 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 patriarch's 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 a crowd 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 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 ruined and. 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 court for full. 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. who's a military man. under the. group of white house defenders. and these two are not in charge anymore. the chiefs of the military units who are in command. 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 also head to. was given an order on this case 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 were just sort of bending over. the people they were afraid to see right away. they gave us about three minutes to make

a decision. general t.v. camera to be brought to him so he. offices refused to obey the rally broke out of 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. is the united states an exceptional country the indispensable nation proponents of this idea claim the us is a force for good in the world and has the right even the obligation to act unilaterally when necessary critics charge american exceptionalism is dangerous to the us and the world as well as a cover for global domination and empire. difficulty

finding. a group of supporters it still remains unclear how. people. across the whole. i'm. wrong. is to document. the fact. they were shooting at me. the first attempts to break into the. trophy police trucks special forces. inside remain silent provoking the attacking mob. he. said let me shoot the radio. i was.

but that's sort of come on we were given. people here were already on edge afraid of those coming inside with weapons. and there we were sitting around like cannon fodder. in this picture one assailant holds and. they had easily seized weapons from the officers who had been guarding city whole according to the special forces version of events the first shot at the going to t.v. center was fired from this very good. as a result one young soldier. was fatally injured. in response to. the elite soldiers opened fire indiscriminately. and one of the main entrance was literally do and. fell flat to the ground hiding behind the flower bed and crawled along in this direction so that it would keep me out of sight of those firing from the

t.v. center that's how i survived. but there was one man who called out to the special forces officers i'm dragging an injured man away don't interfere. and he turned his back to the officers there was a burst of gunfire and he dropped dead. reminders of that battle remain to this day. the investigation took a long time but special forces eventually conceded about the coming from the assailants. to the grenade launcher and visited the internal military training ground. all of them told us point blank that the grenade launcher was not fired inside the television center. and that officer

sydney coffs death has no relation to it. still. nevertheless the majority of muscovites who took to the streets that night in support of him were convinced that the slaughter had been unleashed by supremes serviette followers i meet in the 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 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 delay here. i saw them from the window of the supreme soviet

building they were two young guys who had been shot aside 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 for a russian state t.v. was never able to finish his reporter. apparently for the heart. of journalist.

well certainly 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 journalists. because they're witnesses to the mill 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 broad shoulders israeli soldiers is nothing more than fantasy. you know we 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 it's a pack of lies 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. director you hear me take off my back here they are dying people. began to say something in their defense so they lied that they had used blank or wooden shells. but the building was burning. much time it took to restore it but your pocket black shells course since 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 given the chance to do them both and instead of arresting them. we didn't get a chance they were just too many witnesses. the deputies were saved by members of the counterterrorism unit which had once been under k.g.b. control. or working in political hot spots along the borders of the former u.s.s.r. they were called upon to stop a civil war at home and the capital. in the afternoon.

began negotiations with the deputies inside the white house. down and started waving our arms asking them to cease fire. dog shirts are lieutenant colonel is going to talk to you. made their way to the fifth floor to talk to the deputies many of whom were preparing to die. we told what 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. but 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. other 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. they were expecting. 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. the 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 over the radio they received an order to do away with me but those few minutes were terrible but luckily the walls are made of concrete and 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 early one 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. able to identify. the morgue people were crying the other end was the same they were looking for their

relatives. i said i don't want to live anymore. i'm dead anyway i have nothing to live. 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 being looked very much alike it's just that my first son was shot but seven days life continues and i like say it's all three it's a pity i never saw my brother i was born after he died can't forget things like that they remain in your memory forever there were the people will always remember

. less than six months after the crisis of october one thousand nine hundred ninety three russia still a new constitution installed. as a result of the president's panel as well expanded considerably. the post of vice president was abolished while deputies authority was significantly good sailed. the moscow white house was repaired in record time and surrounded by a toll fence. nearby is an open air but more real 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 a mystery. this

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