and before the investigation. he simply went to the friend to see what was going on. 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 welcoming shop with applause that's the kind of people we are. and clapped 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 and 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. collapsed 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 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 that 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 put the boomers. 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 when you're a c.e.o. 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 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 standish's. expired in his longing for dictatorial power and tyranny. and economic reform only exacerbated these disagreements. in the last days before the crew. 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 discontinue their legislative administrative and indeed executive functions. responded by the decree removing him from the presidency. vice president was appointed as the country's new. ignored parliament and 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. and when 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 pen 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 of supreme soviet supporters broke through the police 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 some 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. of a breakthrough court 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. the operation is commanded by general.

motors television connections off. the tracks out. 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. . transporters 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. offices refused to obey a 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 crowds.

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difficulty finding. a group of. people. across the whole. is to document. the fact. they were shooting at me. the first attempts to break into the. trophy trucks special. silent provoking the attacking mob. he. said let me shoot the radiator. i was.

sort of come on we were given. 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 hall. according to the special forces version of events the first shot at the going to t.v. center was fired from this very. 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

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. 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. 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 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 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. 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 beside a shallow trench. i think that was probably the most depressing image of all. this is how the streets next to the white house looked on the fourth of october one thousand nine hundred ninety three. the game journalists found themselves in the firing line as unknown snipers on the rooftops of nearby buildings opened fire indiscriminately or who got to the stem cell phone of a journalist for a russian state t.v. channel but was never able to finish his reporter there were no he's been here in a back seat he's the fifth recorder i've seen hit by a bullet today here are you by we can see we're there's a bullet lodged in his left lung the sniper was apparently aiming for the heart but mist of journalists began to notice that the mysterious snipers were not acting by

chance their shots provoked reciprocal cruelty and revenge from both sides. certainly it was a geisha we used to be the cool people like me to people who would go into it just it was the instinct of their people but i feel for the journalists. because their witnesses. but even the stuff which was conducted there. for twenty years it has been claimed in a 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. to talk about broad shoulders israeli soldiers is nothing more than fantasy. be believin go as far as to say that i was seen in moscow on the fourth of october meeting them at keefe 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 uphill from inside the white house for the military to rescue the besieged deputy. phyla to take off my face. save the dying people. 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. blank cells 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 rule as soon circulated that yeltsin had issued an order to his security service caused a lot of pain to the supreme soviet and presidential rival would be finished off without trial. well i had a loaded pistol in my right pocket. 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 around a k.g.b. control. they were accustomed 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. dog shirts our 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 superior. 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. 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 odds though had one more humiliation to enjoy. it if. 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 because 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. 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. this photo was taken. moving 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 of we 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 were 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 morrill 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. sigrid

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