from the supreme soviet building. comes to visit her son's grave. sergei 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. 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 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. 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. and 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. they had once been yeltsin's colleagues. in august one thousand nine hundred 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 a supreme soviet 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 nine hundred ninety 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. 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 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 that put him in a tough situation that had to be dealt with scotland had its 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 elson however each side of the political conflict interpreted those results and it's a way. with the boomer me and there was a moment when an agreement could have been reached but then routes korean has a lot of said that only drug addicts and drunkards voted for yeltsin and things spun out of control again or your home in the north and you are still 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. economist 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 in 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 crime. even.

the president was considered. bluer 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 indeed executive functions. responded with a decree removing him from the presidency. vice president was appointed as the country's new. ignored them surrounded the white house with.

eventually society split into. deals 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 a 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. 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 the second 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 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. in the nine hundred ninety three of supreme soviet supporters broke

through the police cordon wielding stones and clubs. the police responded with tear gas 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 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 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 captured. 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 it was 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. . transporters readily at hand trucks with full field 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. give us about three minutes to make

a decision. general t.v. camera. offices refuse to obey a rally broke out at the entrance to the t.v. sets out 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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the first attempts to break into the. trophy. special. hold. the radio. when the reply was don't even think of opening fire 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 seen it 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 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.

the investigation took a long time but special forces eventually. about the coming from the assailants. tested 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 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 aside a shallow trench. i think 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. for the heart. of journalist. well certainly it was a geisha and we used to be the cool people it's like a million people who would go into it just it was the instinct for the death of people but i feel for the germans. because they're witnesses to put him in 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 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. 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 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. pilot hear me take off my face. 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 but your pocket black 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 rumors soon circulated that yeltsin had. should an order to his security service. pay to the supreme and presidential rival to be finished off without a trial. loaded pistol in my right. to safety was. an official request we were. given the chance to do them both and instead of arresting them. we didn't get

a chance there was just too many witnesses. were saved by members of the counterterrorism unit which had once been around a k.g.b. control. to working in political hot spots along the borders of the former u.s.s.r. now they were. at home and the capitol. in the afternoon. again negotiations with the deputies inside the white house. and started waving our arms asking them to cease fire. 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 you 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 the. from the. conflict to go on. to react to the provocation but it led to nothing after all 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 center. what you have is 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 recognised 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 but those few minutes were terrible

but luckily the walls are made of concrete and they were afraid the bullets would ricochet. them. 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. after the tragedy. able to identify. the morgue 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 six years later she gave birth to a second son. until now. conflicting and inconsistent accounts of the events of nine hundred ninety three alexei has already formed his

own version of those events during his childhood he's now fourteen. when this photo was taken. movie they look very much alike it's just that my first time most shot but since gays life continues in alexei it's also it's a pity i never saw my brother though i was born after he died as a 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 saw a new constitution installed. as a result of the president's spell as well expanded considerably. the post of vice president was abolished while deputies authority was significantly could sailed. the moscow white house was repaired in record time and surrounded by a tall fence. nearby is an open at 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 a mystery. wealthy british style. that's not on the. market why not get on the. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max conjure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on

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