in the country. brink of civil. two days of street fighting hundreds. from the supreme soviet building. comes to visit her son's grave. was only seventeen when he died in the turmoil of october one thousand nine hundred three the official records says he was killed by multiple bullet injuries. why has the prosecutor's office for my son's closed 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 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 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 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 supremes building. that battle 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. have 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. collapsed 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 grain had resulted in an economic disaster that put him in a tough situation that had to be dealt with. within the 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 and you're a seal 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. began to block all of the president's initiatives. because i missed roseland says by 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. president. boomer parliament deputies 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 but it became obvious that there was no other way to resolve the situation. from this day forward the supremes soviet of the russian

federation and its deputies discontinued their legislative administrative and indeed executive functions. deputies responded with a decree removing yeltsin from the presidency. vice president alexander it's going was appointed as the country's new. north surrounded the white house with. eventually society split in two. and for the political crisis the other called on the supreme soviets 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. the government didn't want a communist rally in central moscow many of these people who supported the supremes

serviette were convinced that he elton's resignation would make it possible to reinstate the fall of the soviet union and put an end to poverty. slogans which chanted 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. negotiations 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 palm and 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 stones and diet clubs. the police responded to get 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 the lane just to the

right there is 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. so he broke through the cordon for full. to take the building it's not going anywhere the goal was 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 captured in. the operation is commanded by general. the communist. television connections off the tracks out.

who's a military man. under the. group of white house defenders. are not in charge anymore it was the chiefs of the military units who are in command. no need for negotiations. to control the broadcast network by occupying the government run t.v. . transport is readily at hand trucks with full field tanks captured from the police. special forces under control. 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 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. those offices refuse to obey a rally broke out at the entrance to the t.v. center with more and more people joining in every minute the majority had no idea that special forces soldiers had guns trained on the crowd.

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photographer by itself has no difficulty finding bullet holes at the television center. he came to us 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. i'm not the one to judge who is right and who was wrong just that my first duty is a reporter is to document the event commenting on it isn't my job but the fact is that at this very spot they were shooting at me.

the first attempts to break into the t.v. . trophy police trucks special. holding inside remained silent provoking the attacking mob. but with. the radio. the reply was. sort of come on we were given. people here were already afraid of those coming. and there we were sitting around like. the officers who had been.

as a result. was fatally injured. discriminately . 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. there was a burst of gunfire. the

bullets that caused these holes in the t.v. center were fired by both sides the investigation took a long time but special forces eventually conceded that their story about the first shots coming from the assailants was false. that we tested 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. 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 yeltsin were convinced that the going to 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. to 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. for the heart. of journalist. well certainly it was a geisha and we used to be the cool people it was like a million people who would come into it just it was the instinct of the death of people but i feel all of the germans. because they're witnesses. but even 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 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 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. highlighter 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 to your pocket blank shells cause such damage on their. 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 the

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. 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. don't 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 them 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. other to react to the provocation but it led 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 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 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 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. 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 with. 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 for. and. until now. the 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 son was shot but their gaze life continues and like say it's all three it's a pity i never saw my brother though 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 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 surrounded by a toll fence. nearby is an open air morrill where relatives of the dead visit this

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